Our goals – Saware Dicha

Children walk long distances to go to school, and it is dangerous on steep paths and with dangerous animals.
“ I suffered from that already when I was a child” says co-founder Kebede Dache Dalacho.
Lack of pure drinking water: Children and women walk long distances to get drinking water, but that water is not clean. This makes the people and especially children sick.
Use of open three-stone woodfires for cooking, often inside the houses. Collecting the wood is very time-consuming, again for children and women.
No electricity, use of kerosene lamps for lighting
Women and girls experience inequality, hard life and no income resources, e.g.:
• Girls go less to school than boys
• Children and women carry wood for cooking & water from the rivers
• Their health is more affected through indoor air pollution from kerosene lamps and fires

„Improving life starts with clean water, better health, education and empowerment – and with creating additional income opportunities“

Step by step we improve the conditions – in a sustainable way:

Create access to pure drinking water, inside the village
Introduce improved cooking solutions, which produce less smoke and use less wood
Create better access to education and ensure quality education. Our long term plan is to build a primary school inside the village and build an education system which preserves the natural environment and teaches about sustainable ways of improving life

End then, the long term goals are:

Build competences for the local people in health and hygiene, benefits of solar energy, rainwater harvesting, organic agricultural practices, drip irrigation & permaculture
Build business opportunities with income generation for the local people, especially women, through sustainable, environment- and climate-friendly practices.

1. Access to pure drinking water

2. Improved cooking solutions

Cookstoves instead of open fires, adapted to local menus and needs
Improved cookstoves need less wood, can burn different type of biomass and produce less smoke
Trainings in production/installation and use
Creation of small production business for locals

3. Access to better education with model primary school inside the village

For children from grade 1 to 6
And for adults who did not have sufficient education
Construction with modern knowhow combined with traditional methods
Integrating solar power for light & electricity, especially for the night classes for adults.
Creating of ownership: People from the local community will be involved from the beginning and help constructing the school and therefore feel the ownership and take care of the school.
Fair paid good teachers for motivated classes.
The school is for girls and boys and parents will be especially motivated to send their daughters to school.

4. Trainings for adults (and children) / „Competence center“

5. Business opportunities and income generation

Production and sales of improved cookstoves
Additional organic cultivation of local products (such as Moringa and local herbs) for sales abroad
Solar kiosk: local sales (+ maintenance) of small solar systems
Integrating women for empowering women