Maokomo Bambasi Project, Ethiopia

See the progress you helped make happen in your sponsored community

When the project started, most families were struggling to earn income and send their children to school. Many children were underweight and dirty water and poor hygiene made preventable diseases common.

Thanks to your support, your sponsored children and other children in the Maokomo Bambasi community have better access to education, healthcare and clean water and their parents are generating higher incomes.  

 

Before your help, some families were struggling to earn income from beekeeping without proper equipment. Now they have access to modern beehive boxes so they can produce more honey and income.

Together we've achieved so much

95 percent of children were enrolled in primary school by 2017

This is up from 56 percent when the project began.

  • Three primary schools, 12 classroom blocks and six pre-school classrooms were built which has increased school enrolments. 
  • The quality of education has been improved in collaboration with local organisations by providing access to pre-school and expanding skillsets of teachers. 

98 percent of people have access to healthcare services

This is up from 50 percent when the project began.

  • Additional health centres have been built and more women are giving birth while being assisted by a skilled birth attendant.
  • More than 48,000 people learned about child health and good nutrition practices. 
  • Around 95 percent of children under five are now immunised against killer diseases. This is up from 27.9 percent when the project began. 

73.3 percent of people had reliable access to clean water by 2016

This was up from only eight percent in 2005.

  • Families have better access to clean drinking water following the completion of 72 water projects including building two deep wells, 15 shallow wells and 35 water points.
  • More than 3,000 people have learned about safe sanitation and hygiene and more families have access to toilets, which has helped to reduce the practice of open defecation and the spread of disease.  
  • Mothers and children have learned about the importance of handwashing practices to protect against the spread of infectious diseases.  

"Fetching water no longer carries the practical threat of being attacked by wild animals like hyenas. That kind of fear is no longer there."

- Mr Ebrahim, aged 58, community member

Transforming lives

Shemsiya, a health worker in the Maokomo district, remembers how nervous she felt when a pregnant woman went into labour before World Vision began partnering with her community.

“We used to vaccinate pregnant women and children in open air, and many vaccines and equipment were spoiled and damaged by rain and sunlight,” she says.

Thanks to generous sponsors like you, more than 70,000 people have benefited from new healthcare facilities provided through the project.

Now, pregnant women, children, the elderly and sick community members no longer need to travel far in search of healthcare.

With your support, the Maokomo district has new healthcare posts, medical supplies and equipment and health workers have improved knowledge and skills.

“We used to vaccinate pregnant women and children in open air, and many vaccines and equipment were spoiled and damaged by rain and sunlight,” she says.

Thanks to generous sponsors like you, more than 70,000 people have benefited from new healthcare facilities provided through the project.

Now, pregnant women, children, the elderly and sick community members no longer need to travel far in search of healthcare.

With your support, the Maokomo district has new healthcare posts, medical supplies and equipment and health workers have improved knowledge and skills.

"I have received training which benefited me a lot in improving my career and [giving] quality service to patients."

- Shemsiya, health worker, Maokomo district