Partners for Change Ethiopia

Partners for Change Ethiopia "Without the community, there is no hope for the child and without healthy children, there is no hope for the community." - JeCCDO

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Being a Social Change Maker means giving women like Saeda the tools, support, and confidence to transform not just their...
01/10/2025

Being a Social Change Maker means giving women like Saeda the tools, support, and confidence to transform not just their own lives, but their entire communities. 💛🌱

👩‍👧‍👦 When Saeda joined our training programme, she was raising her own children and caring for four more including Samira, who had been thrown out when her father remarried, and Habsa, whose father became mentally ill and whose mother had left.

🏡 With a household of eleven and only her husband’s part-time gardener wages, Saeda worked hard to provide. She even collected flour mill sweepings, separating grain from dirt to sell.

💡Through our training and a small loan, she became a local grain distributor. Today, Saeda has gone further by opening her home to two more children who had been living on the streets.

Saeda is one of our development heroes 🌱 and her story shows what Social Change Makers is all about - empowering people to rebuild lives and communities.

✨ Our Social Change Makers' approach empowers people to shape their own future. We put our approach into action through ...
26/09/2025

✨ Our Social Change Makers' approach empowers people to shape their own future. We put our approach into action through community visits, training and local support that build lasting livelihoods 🌍
Our approach works. ✨ Meet Fayo Abdi from the Genda Tesfa community, whose journey shows what empowerment can do. 💛
👩‍👧 At just 20, she was caring for her own child and two younger sisters while also supporting her mother, Nuriya, who lived with a severe mental illness 💔
🏚️ Their home was a derelict builder’s hut and for many nights, Fayo slept outside with the children because she feared what her mother might do 🌙
🌟 Fayo joined our training programme 📚 to set up an income-generating activity and is now running a little coffee stall ☕ outside her house with her sister 👭. The hut she lived in was repaired 🏡✨, repainted 🎨, and an electric supply ⚡ was set up—all with the support of her local community 🤝💛
📸 In the photos you'll see:
✨Fayo, full of courage and determination
👩‍👧 Fayo with the children she cares for
🏚️The hut before it was restored
🏡The newly renovated hut
☕🏕️ Fayo coffee stall

🎉 40 years of impact. 40 years of change. 40 years of YOU. 🎉As we celebrate 40 years of PFC Ethiopia, we are filled with...
11/09/2025

🎉 40 years of impact. 40 years of change. 40 years of YOU. 🎉

As we celebrate 40 years of PFC Ethiopia, we are filled with gratitude 💙.
None of this would have been possible without the generosity and commitment of our incredible supporters and donors.

Because of you…
📚 Children are learning and dreaming big
🏡 Families are building brighter futures
🌍 Communities are leading their own change

From caring for orphaned children during the famine of the 1980s, to empowering over 150 community-based organisations today, your support has been at the heart of every step forward 🙌.

✨ Thank you for walking alongside us these past four decades. If you’d like to be part of the next 40 years of hope and transformation, you can donate through the link in our bio 💫.

Together, we are Partners for Change ❤️💛💚

💡"Real change starts with listening."💡When PFC Ethiopia began its journey 40 years ago🎉, we discovered something importa...
08/09/2025

💡"Real change starts with listening."💡

When PFC Ethiopia began its journey 40 years ago🎉, we discovered something important: lasting solutions are created by the people who live the challenges every day.💬👨‍👩‍👧

In Negedde Woitto, a marginalised community on Lake Tana's shores, every household came together🏠🤝twice a month for meetings. Together, they discussed needs and opportunities - and the solutions they chose worked, because they came from within. 🙌✨

That same process is now transforming lives in 150 communities across Ethiopia.
🌍Last year, we worked in 17 areas.
🌍256,165 people benefitted
🌍689, 012 more benefitted indirectly

We don't send "experts" to impose change. We listen🤲, we partner👂, and we support🌱 communities to turn their own hopes into action.

This is our Social Change Makers strategy: child centred, family focused, and community driven. And it's only the beginning.

Over the next few months, we'll be sharing more stories of resilience, creativity, and transformation. Thank you for being part of this journey. ❤️💛💚

By 2005, we had fully transitioned from institutional care to family-based care, ensuring every child could grow up in t...
05/09/2025

By 2005, we had fully transitioned from institutional care to family-based care, ensuring every child could grow up in their own community. When parents passed away, relatives took on care, and we supported them with resources and training.

For children to thrive, their communities had to thrive too! Our orphanages were transformed into community training centres. Together with local people, we built water points, communal showers, and toilets. We also introduced urban agriculture - teaching families how to grow food in small spaces and share their skills with neighbours. This created a ripple effect of resilience and hope across entire neighbourhoods.

What began as care for orphans became a catalyst for community transformation.

✨ This chapter marked the beginning of even greater transformation. What followed was change on a much larger scale and we can’t wait to share it with you. Stay tuned for our next post! 💛

✨ As we celebrate 40 years, we’re continuing to look back on our journey.In our last post, we shared how it all began (c...
03/09/2025

✨ As we celebrate 40 years, we’re continuing to look back on our journey.

In our last post, we shared how it all began (check it out if you missed it 👀).

After 10 years of running our homes, and following an independent evaluation, we learned something important: no matter how well an orphanage is run, the best place for a child is within their own community. 💛

So, we began a decade of reintegrating children—some back with their families, others into work—while building the community support systems they needed to truly thrive.

📸 Here are two of the original children whose lives show the power of hope and opportunity:

1 & 2 ➡️ Mulu was blinded by smallpox during the famine. With the support she received, she went on to graduate with first-class honours in law at Addis Ababa University—and today she’s a lawyer.
💬 “Children with disabilities like mine usually end up begging on the streets, but the head of the orphanage told me if I had confidence in myself, I could do anything. I believed her.”

3 & 4 ➡️ Baedigalign’s story began in tragedy 💔. As a small boy, he was found clinging to his mother’s body while a vulture 🦅 pecked at his cheek. Rescued and cared for in our home 🏠, he grew up to become a skilled printer 🖨️ in Addis Ababa.

💙 These stories remind us that even in the darkest times, hope can rise ✨.

👉 Which part of their journey inspires you most? Share your thoughts below and let’s spread hope together 💬⬇️

Stay tuned for our next post!

Celebrating 40 years of Change 🎉Our story began during the Ethiopian famine of 1984–85, a crisis that claimed nearly hal...
29/08/2025

Celebrating 40 years of Change 🎉

Our story began during the Ethiopian famine of 1984–85, a crisis that claimed nearly half a million lives 🌍 That same year, Live Aid united 1.5 billion people around the world to respond to the emergency.

Amid this crisis, Colin Battell, then chaplain of St Matthew’s Anglican Church in Addis Ababa, partnered with the Jerusalem Association of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church ⛪ to care for 1,000 children orphaned by war and famine.

From this partnership, four children’s homes were established in Bahir Dar, Addis Alem, Debre Birhan, and Debre Zeit—safe places where children could find hope and a fresh start 🌱.

We’ve shared a photo of the first children we cared for in 1986 taken by our supporter Liz Elson, marking the beginning of 40 years of resilience, compassion, and lasting change ✨

👉 Keep an eye out for our next post, where we’ll share what we did next!

At PFC Ethiopia, we work with some of the most marginalised and vulnerable groups in the country—including Internally Di...
13/06/2025

At PFC Ethiopia, we work with some of the most marginalised and vulnerable groups in the country—including Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). These are families who have been forced to flee their homes due to war, violence, and ethnic conflict.

During a recent visit to an IDP camp we support in Hawassa, we saw first-hand how vital this work is. The camp is a lifeline - providing shelter, clean water, schools, and hope for people who’ve lost everything.

Ethiopia is facing one of the worst internal displacement crises in the world, with an estimated 4.5 million people displaced across regions like Somali, Oromia, and Tigray. Many are living in temporary shelters with little access to basic services. They urgently need stability, dignity, and support to rebuild their lives.

Our IDP programmes provide:
✅ Emergency food and water
✅ Shelter, schools, and water pumps
✅ Renovated classrooms and teacher training
✅ Special needs education materials
✅ Nutrition support and medical care

We are committed to helping children access safe, inclusive, and quality education - and to supporting families as they rebuild their futures.

👉 To learn more about our work with IDPs, visit our website via the link in the bio

Little by little, a little becomes a lot... 💛Thanks to your continued support, our breakfast club at Tibasse M School is...
06/06/2025

Little by little, a little becomes a lot... 💛

Thanks to your continued support, our breakfast club at Tibasse M School is growing strong — providing free, nutritious meals to vulnerable children and empowering their parents with business training and start-up capital 💼✨

This year, our amazing Trustee Caroline Field and Ambassador Sarah Parfitt are doing a double fundraiser for the school. After visiting Ethiopia in January, they’ve already raised £1,217 towards the breakfast club! 🙌

Next up? On 29th June, they’re taking on the Thorpe Triathlon — this time joined by their sons, Sam and Josh 💪💦

Let’s cheer them on and help them go even further!
👉 You can support here https://www.justgiving.com/page/sarah-parfitt-6



03/06/2025

🌍🎶 Have You Ever Heard Ethiopian Music? 🎶🌍
If not, you’re missing out on something truly special.

🇪🇹✨ Ethiopian traditional music is built on a pentatonic modal system—meaning it uses just five notes per scale. This creates unique melodies filled with wide, expressive intervals. It's vibrant, soulful, and lively.
🪕🎻 Traditional instruments like the krar (lyre), masenqo (one-stringed fiddle), washint (bamboo flute), and begenna (spiritual lyre) bring this music to life. Add in the saxophone, and you’ve got a sound that’s both ancient and timeless.
💃🎵 Traditional music is often paired with Eskista, a cultural dance from the Amhara people. Known for its rhythmic shoulder, chest, and neck movements, Eskista is performed across Ethiopia and has even gone viral on TikTok a few years ago!

🎧 But Ethiopian music doesn’t stop at tradition. Today’s contemporary Ethiopian music blends local rhythms with global genres, creating something both modern and rooted in heritage.

🎤🎸 Artists you must check out:
Alemayehu Eshete – “The Abyssinian Elvis,” blending rock and traditional sounds
Gigi (Ejigayehu Shibabaw) – fusing Ethiopian roots with world music
Mulatu Astatke – father of Ethio-jazz
Aster Aweke – iconic voice behind hits like Abebayehosh

🌟 Ethiopia’s music is a celebration of culture, creativity, and resilience. Let’s keep listening, dancing, and sharing it with the world. 🇪🇹❤️



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