Apr 28 2008
Elevate poverty by empowering people
Community Development Leadership Training Education
Victory Community Development Services (VCDS) is a non profit organization established to support a rural area with extreme poverty in the highlands of Ethiopia. VCDS is committed to providing a drinking water, building school, clinic facility, road and providing text books, materials, back packs, and supplies for elementary and middle schools for all students. Also pamphlets and literature on AIDS prevention will be made available to schools.
The village is located on a mountain top with no road, electricity, running water, clinic facility, luck of transportation and communication has put the villagers into backwards and primitive life style that cased the poverty level extremely high. The community has more than 15,000 inhabitants in total darkness, materially and spiritually.
Agriculture and cattle breeding being the main cash crop, few small scale merchants operates commodities with in the community. This is one of the area where women are not participating in the economic sector by tradition. VCDS is committed to train and teach the advantage of the involvement of women in the economic sector, by training the women how to involve in small scale business.
Contact : Zerefa Biru
zerefabiru@yahoo.ca
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