Day: April 15, 2019

SHER Ethiopia and Adami Tullu Municipality representatives this week visited a site designated by the latter for a school project due to be undertaken.

SHER Ethiopia has planned to construct the school at Adami Tullu site situated in Jiddo Kombolcha District, East Shoa zone, Oromia Regional State.

The company has allocated a total of 36 million birr for the project which comprises kindergarten to preparatory level.

Company representatives and town mayor visited the selected site with the objective of reaffirming the school construction in which the foundation will be set after a month with the presence of relevant stakeholders,
community leaders, Abba Gedas and the media.

According to SHER Ethiopia General Manager, Abera Mamo, the first phase of the project, set to be finalized in September 2019, will be able to enroll 300-400 children at primary level.

Ethio-Agriceft, Agriflower Holeta has taken a bold step towards engaging in community-based health insurance program. With a view to creating awareness, company senior executives have contributed their first membership fees and called on the rest employees to follow through and become CBHI scheme beneficiary.

In Ethiopia, the CBHI initiative was set up as a community based health project that gathers payments made by members to cover basic health care costs at local health care centers whenever any member of the group is sick.

The program was launched in Ethiopia since 2011 and it has been implemented at various governmental, non-governmental and communities levels until now.

Social and Environmental Development Organization (SAEDO) is a joint CSR projects at Koka Cluster aimed at implementing diverse environmental and social impact schemes in the community. Florensis Ethiopia, Florensis Abyssinia, Dumen Organe, Syngenta, Almeta Impex , Ethio Vegfru and individual partners are the horticulture companies closely supporting the projects.

Initiated by Florensis Abyssinia to be executed for three years, the joint project has been under implementation since 2014 through implementing various CSR practices in the community.

SAEDO Program Director Mr. Nemwak Ararsa noted that private horticulture companies have high commitment for the successful implementation and benefit of the community.

The integrated CSR plan includes child support which is undertaken by cluster horticulture farms jointly. School development in which all of the farms in the partnership contributed based on the need and reforestation program.

The Program Director said that the project is successful in achieving the ultimate goal of creating good image of the companies in the hearts of the community.

The joint efforts that have been underway by the aforementioned companies are worth applying in other farms in the industry.

The Ethiopian Horticulture Producer Exporters Association (EHPEA) in partnership with FairTrade Africa provided training to horticultural farm representatives in Adama April 9-11, 2019.

Opening the training program EHPEA Training Department Head Mikiyas Bekele said that a concerted and well-organized training is instrumental in boosting productivity and unleashing the intact possibilities of the horticulture sector.

He said that the training is aimed at developing skills of selected farms focusing on building their leadership skills. Capacity building training plays a central role in enhancing productivity of the farms.

Some 33 trainees, who attended the training, were drawn from seven horticulture farms already certified by Fair Trade Africa.

The training, which is part of Women School of Leadership project, focused among others on Gender Awareness and Mainstreaming, Developing Self-confidence and Self-esteem, Group Cohesion and Principles of
Cooperation as well as Human Rights and Women's Human Rights topics.