ADDIS ABABA-Resurrection and Life Development Organization (RLDO) said it has been constructing schools, working for improving water access in collaboration with Japan embassy thereby easing women burden on fetching water from remote areas in Ethiopia.
Approached by The Ethiopian Herald Executive RLDO Director, Biniyam Belachew stated that the organization is a local non-profit entity which has been working together with Japan embassy in Ethiopia for the last eighteen years in the areas of schools expansion and water development projects.
In so doing, it has targeted at improving access to quality education and minifying women and children water fetching burden in rural areas.
“Embassy of Japan in Ethiopia helps the community create access to quality education by involving in expansion of school construction projects so as to solve the problems of community. We constructed many preparatory schools with fully furnished blocks incorporating classrooms, library and toilet using the grant secured from Japan government.”
“Over last18 years, we have implemented six projects in the support of embassy of Japan through the Japanese Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP),” Biniyam added.
Biniyam said RLDO mainly focuses on enabling the disadvantaged groups of children, families and communities in rural and urban areas of former SNNP state to improve their wellbeing through provision of education, health, housing, economic empowerment, skills training, and environmental protection services.
He added they built 29 schools, and 20,000 students are attending their education. Besides, it is working with big organizations in areas of urban development program by building houses for the poor to have house and engage in livelihood activities.
He said, “We are also implementing water development program to alleviate the water supply problem being seen in the country and working in environmental protection and sanitation.
He further said that so far they have implemented six projects in Sidama with a view to increasing the safe water supply provision for over 8,000 people living in Kebado town, expansion of Bochesa primary school construction, expansion of primary and secondary school construction in different woredas of Sidama state, among others.
BY MISGANAW ASNAKE
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD SATURDAY 27 APRIL 2024
