Hope for Children and Youth Development (HFCYD) is a non-profit organization working on behalf of women and children in Ethiopia. In 2010, when adopting our daughter, we met a mother of 6-month-old twins, who worked at a construction site. With no one to care for the children, the children accompanied their mother to work each day at a dangerous environment. Alternatives included relinquishing car
e of the children to an orphanage, or leaving the work environment to beg, and possibly also to live, on the street. Recognizing the life situation of the mother and child are inseparable, with a strong initiative and deep commitment to the community, we dedicated ourselves to collaborating with the women working at the construction site and began to provide the following
- To provide free daycare service (including food, life skill training, and educational playing material for children.)
- To provide relevant training and capacity-building support to lead a healthy and stable family life for children, mothers and community members.
- To ensure access to primary health care system to the target children through medical examination by government health service providers.
- To build the mental, social and economic situation of mothers by giving guidance and counseling and psychosocial support. The beneficiaries are
- Families who are unemployed or under employed as compared with families living in the operational area
- Families who cannot send their children to school due to economic reasons.
- Children who are living with their relative, foster parents and non-relatives, because of ill-treatment/ abuse.
- Abandoned children.
- The age limit of children for registration into daycare is 6 month -3 years old.
