About Sara’s Center
Sara Child Minders Association is a non-profit association founded in 2004, on the wish and tender values of Sara Cannizzaro, a late 11 year old with a dream…
To prevent child homelessness by strengthening families and promoting lasting solutions to break the cycle of poverty.
Sara’s Wish for Better Future…
“I Wish happiness and joy all over the World.
I wish love to be the only feeling of life, I wish tears to be only tears of joy,
I wish I could cancel sadness and fear,
I wish pain to be an unknown feeling in all earth, I wish loneliness not to exist in the world,
I wish all to be friends,
I wish that war and hunger didn’t exist, I wish peace to conquer the World”
SCCMA offers children and young people a brighter future through quality education and support single and widowed mothers who are living under the poverty line.
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Background and Justification
Despite Ethiopia’s economic growth for the past decades, the country is still facing a variety of issues that needs urgent action, as over 23% of its population live below poverty line (UNDP Ethiopia, April 6, 2018, report).
According to UNICEF Ethiopia report (October 14, 2016), there are 13 million Ethiopian children who live in poor households, 2 million of whom live in extreme poverty.
Children are more severely affected by poverty (32.4 per cent) and extreme poverty (5.2 per cent) than adults (29.6 per cent and 4.5 per cent, respectively).
The poorest children are found in households whose head is employed in the informal sector. 13.1 per cent of these children live in extreme poverty.
Alarming is the number of urban poor children at risk of becoming involved in street life. This is huge problem – and it’s getting bigger and bigger.
Cause of streetism are: poverty, lack of adequate information on existing services, lack of educational opportunities and day care facilities for children, lack of family planning, broken home, HIV / AIDS, lack of open dialogue & emotional support.
SCCMA SERVICES & FACTS
SCCMA is only 15 years old, but supports 600 beneficiaries, of which 400 are children. The Sara Center runs a nursery, a kindergarten, sewing and embroidery training center, and a cooking and catering training center. The Center has a library for the after-school kids, and a health care program for all the beneficiaries.
400
Supported by Child & Youth Programs
50%
Boys Supported by SCCMA
50%
Girls Supported by SCCMA
200
Supported by Family Programs
100%
Distance Support
Actions speak louder than words! Give today.
At SCCMA, all funds raised will be used for the purposes of enhancing the quality of children life at Sara Center and run Adult Vocational Training Program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The work we do focuses on making a difference in our peoples life and hope this will motivate you to join us and make a difference in the lives of those who desperately need your help.
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Why Donate
- You will save and improve lives
- You will be part of something bigger
- You will create a brighter future for children
- Donating directly connects you to a community in need
- Encourages friends and family to do the same
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