What we do

Our current and ongoing projects

Habitat for Humanity Ethiopia works with partner families and communities to help them live in healthy environment, enable children to grow with hope in a dignified life style. Our focus is partnering with vulnerable groups who could not afford constructing or renovating their own houses and sanitation facilities. Our approach is capitalizing community participation, enhancing awareness to create healthy living environment through hygiene and sanitation training. With your support, Habitat partner families achieve the strength, stability and independence they need to build a better life for themselves. In our 5-year strategic plan, we take into account the multidimensional poverty challenges in Ethiopia to diversify interventions and bring about impact at community, sector and societal levels.

Urban Slum Upgrading Project in Addis Ababa

The Urban Slum Upgrading Project is a multi-year project containing other specific projects supported by our partners. The project is implemented in four sub cities of Addis Ababa: Akaki Kality, Lideta, Gullele and Yeka.
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KOIKA-GDEF WASH Project

Negele Arsi District-KOIKA-GDEF Project
• Water reservoirs with 300 cubic meter capacity
• 52 km distribution lines,
• Installation of water pump and generator
• Water points
• Open Defecation Free(ODF) localities
• Hygiene awareness raising and capacity building
• Community led total sanitation
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Shewa Robit Housing and WASH Project

• A reservoir with the capacity of 500 cubic meter
• pressure and distribution lines
• Pater points and container seat for water Kiosk
• Water source development: drilling of boreholes, spring development
• Installation of submersible pump and diesel generator
• Community led total sanitation
• Hygiene awareness creation and capacity building
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Supporting people at risk of flood in Addis Ababa

The URBAN project aims at build resilience of community by constructing 2,155-meter drainage ditches and protect 365 households (1095 individuals) from flood in slum areas of Addis Ababa. Apart from mitigating risks of flood, we work to upgrade the grey water disposal systems. The project also improves sanitary practices and personal hygiene through providing awareness raising training for about 4,000 households (20,000 individuals)
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Improved Energy Utilization Project

Traditional stoves and cooking methos causes environmental, health and economic hardships to most of the families in the town of Debre Berhan. The smoke and fume emitted from traditional cooking channels pauses health risk to women and girls. Traditional stoves consume large amount of wood which in turn causes deforestation. It further exacerbates hardships for women and girls as they are assigned to buy or collect firewood; they spend most of their time which could have been used to engage in other activities.
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