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Save Lives Ethiopia (SL) is a registered (R.NO.0018) Local Non- Governmental Organization (NGO) founded by nine professional Ethiopians which was established in March 2002, of whom  were women with the acknowledgment of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). Based on the CSO law it was reregistered as Ethiopian Resident Charity Organization in October 2009. Save lives has been re-registered recently and accorded legal personality with registry number 0018 on Aug 7/2019 in accordance with the new CSOs proclamation 1113/2019.   Save Lives is governed by a Board of Directors who reports to the General Assembly.

Regarding   program   development   approach,   SaL   has   been   pursuing   community   based transformational  approach,  taking  improvement  of  the  social  and  economic  wellbeing  of women and children as its core objective.  As strategic approach it emphasizes participation and ownership  of  programs  by  those  who  benefit  from  the  outcomes,  their  communities  and institutions, building capacities of and partnering  local government offices, CBOs, FBOs and other stakeholders and developing strong network and partnership with like-minded organizations at all levels.

Save Lives has been implementing various projects on mitigation of the impacts of poverty & HIV/AIDS since 2003 and hence has accumulated extensive experience in understanding situations and needs of vulnerable children, women, girls and their households and designing and implementing relevant programs & projects. The roles of the beneficiaries, community based, local government organizations and other partners are highly valued and every opportunity is captured to engage them in programs.

The overall objective of the project is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children and young girls have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change in their communities.

Mission: Empowering the poorest vulnerable and marginalized women’s girls’ children and youth through care and support service. Creating opportunities and building their capacity to enable them realize their full potential and development aspiration to contribute towards achieving Women’s Economic empowerment efforts (reduction of poverty and hunger) through improving livelihoods of the poor women based on SHGs approach.

Vision፡- Children, women, girls, and the youth live safe environment, are empowered to realize their full potential, successful and responsible citizen

Objectives: – To improve the social and economic wellbeing of Orphan and Vulnerable Children (OVC), young girls and women.

To contribute towards achieving Women’s Economic empowerment efforts (reduction of poverty and hunger) through improving livelihoods of the poor women based on SHGs approach.

Value;–

• We are accountable for all our action and resources  entrusted to us .In effective  we put people we serve before all our interests, maintaining the highest standards of accountability
• we value ,love and care for people we serve  regardless of their ethnic  back ground, gender ,religious belief, political outlook, economic or personal  situation ,and uphold the dignity  of every person .
• We strive for excellence in all our undertakings at all times and place.

Save Lives aspires to see the poorest, vulnerable and marginalized women, girls, children and the youth prosper and become responsible citizens.

Through management children and family will have accesses to continuum of care based on their specific need in five essential and cross cutting program including gender child protection and disabilities inclusion. By focusing sanitation, hygiene food support, education, youth development. Livelihood (self-help group) and health in the five year programmatic pillars of our project the social accountability project, which focus on improving health.