Ethiopia • Sosyal Hizmetler (yetimhane, çocuk ve yaşlı bakımı)
- Sector: Sosyal Hizmetler (yetimhane, çocuk ve yaşlı bakımı)
- Headquarters Country: Ethiopia
- City: Addis Ababa
- Founding Year: 1986
- Employees: 200-500
- Founders: Abebech Gobena
- Social Impact: The main goal of this organization is to help the poor, orphans and elders in Ethiopia; it pays school fees, feeds malnourished children and mothers, and runs vocational training (weaving, sweater-making, carpentry, masonry) for poor families.
- Awards: Abyssinia Award (13 May 2018)
- Website: http://www.agohelma.org/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/gobena_s
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/abebech-gobena-children-s-care-and-development-association/
- More Info: Dr. Gobena is the founder and General manager of AGOHELMA, one of Ethiopia’s oldest orphanages. Her accomplishments stem from an act of faith. She was on a pilgrimage to Gishen Mariam in the Wollo region of Ethiopia, an important site in the Ethiopian orthodox faith. The area was famine stricken and on her way back home she found a baby laying next to her dead mother, at a feeding center. She picked up the baby and brought her home. She subsequently brought a second baby home, who was lying next to his dead father. In one year’s time, she brought home 21 children. This simple act of love grew and grew over the last three decades. Gradually she got help and, in 1986, her orphanage was registered by the government. The Abebech Gobena Orphanage and School now have over 200 resident and 482 non-resident pupils, the government provides some teachers. AGO pays school fees for over 1,000 children from poor families at other schools. Over 1,800 benefit from a child-sponsorship scheme. Over 2,000 malnourished children and mothers receive food. In 1990 AGOS launched its first project outside Addis Ababa, at Guder 90 miles away. Initially, this was a farm to provide food and raise income for the Addis Ababa orphanage. AGOS has since established a primary school and a kindergarten for poor children at Burayu, on the outskirts of Addis, and a training centre in Fitche, 70 miles away, where trainees learn weaving, sweater-making, carpentry and masonry.
