Enough discussions about IMMIGRANTS - we help directly where the help is needed

12.06.2017

Together with the Czech charity organization DIACONIA OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF CZECH BRETHREN, we are starting to work on a project called TEMPISH SKATES FOR MILL, which will be implemented in the poor area of CHUKO in northern Ethiopia.
This project builds on the previous work of the Diaconia in this area, which began in 2013. At that time, the charity organization started to educate a group of single women in financial literacy and entrepreneurship. The next step was the establishment of a "subsidy program" that allowed individual members of the Ethiopian women group to acquire the basic capital for their business, among the projects there was, for example, breeding, agriculture, etc. This "subsidy program" works on the principle of a joint fund to which both donors and the members of this women group donate and there are eventually also profits from their joint activities. The members can then take out loans from this fund for their own business activities to ensure their livelihood, finance for education for their children, and for other life needs.
The last work of the Diaconia in the Chuko area in Ethiopia is a construction of a mill that will help local women to expand their business further and ensure self-sufficiency. This project will also be co-financed by the Czech company TEMPISH s.r.o. Currently, there is no mill in this area and women have to go to a remote village with a heavy load, which takes many hours. Flour milling is also very expensive. The mill will have even a free capacity and will offer to mill cereals at very favourable prices to other farmers in the near and far surroundings.
The company TEMPISH s.r.o. (an important Central European manufacturer of skates and other sports equipment) came up with an interesting idea. For this project, it contributes 0.12 USD of every sold skate. The construction of the mill begins now and it should be finished by the end of September 2017. Everything must be done before the Ethiopian period of rains, which would make all construction work more complicated.
The aim of this long-term support and cooperation in Ethiopia is mainly to help women stand on their own feet, because that is the right way to improve the quality of their hard life.
Another goal is to offer local residents a perspective on living in local conditions, to teach them how to earn a living according to their local possibilities and customs and to make their home environment so enjoyable that there is no reason for them to change it and travel somewhere else – for example to Europe...