Who We Are?
Our history
Bright Star Relief and Development Association (BS-RDA) is an indigenous humanitarian, charity and non-governmental organization established by Ethiopians to tackle socioeconomic problems facing poor and vulnerable population groups to work in areas of education, child labor, women and youth development in collaboration with different stakeholders. The target groups it addresses are mainly street people, children exploited through child labor, commercial sex workers, delinquents or young offenders, children and women in abject poverty.
The organization is register as per the federal democratic republic of Ethiopia agency for civil society organization proclamation No. 1113/2011 with a registration no 3415, by fulfilling the entire requirement laid down in the procedures of the law of the land.
Our Mission
To reach vulnerable population groups for improved and sustainable development
Our Vision
To see holistically changed lives of the target population through various capacity building programs
Our Goal
To help poor and working children, street people, commercial sex workers, and young offenders holistically so that they become self-reliant and productive members of society.
Our Core values
o Integrity
o Honesty
o Time management
o Hard working
Our Objective
This project helps young females and mothers who do not have any job. It helps them to make them able to be professional. These mothers are selected from Gulele sub city werda 06 with the collaboration of women’s and children affairs Government office to empower the capacity of these mothers through providing vocational training.
projects
Capacity building project
This project helps young females and mothers who do not have any job. It helps them to make them able to be professional. These mothers are selected from Gulele sub city werda 06 with the collaboration of women’s and children affairs Government office to empower the capacity of these mothers through providing vocational training.
Children Sponsorship Project
The sponsorship project is one of a kind which we have been working on with a blessed return of fulfillment. In many occasions of the activities in this project the bond created between the beneficiaries and us, as runners of the project, is like a family.
As well known, the standards of finding the right beneficiaries for the enrollment in the project is given attention. The goal of this charitable deed is to make potent citizens in all aspects of life for which we have been striving a lot.
Home for destitute Project
To the rescue of those young females in the commercial sex work, this Destitute Females’ Center strives a lot as we run the project. For the last years in the history of the organization and its Deborah Center, we have been able to rehabilitate many young females into a normal life style after the support they had enjoyed during their stay in the center. The goal of the center was to reach sixteen girls. We have achieved our goal in this regard.
Independency Project
Independence project is an implementation with the purpose of tackling socio-economic problems of young students. In our country Ethiopia, there are so many social problems that need the attention of government and different social organizations to intervene into. More than half of the Ethiopian population is young and productive group segment of the entire society.
Schooling project
Schooling is one of the major project activities of Bright Star to combat poverty that is affecting the large society in Ethiopia. It is believed that diagnosing the problem temporarily could not bring the sustainable development that the country needs. The deep-rooted problem that intensifies the situation needs to be curbed. This can only be possible via promoting quality education that produces visionary students. Alternative
Education project
Alternative Basic Education (ABE) project which gives them a chance to attend non-formal class. The project enables them to complete 4th grade education within three years and they will join formal education when they completed three years non- formal school.
Street Children (Hawassa)
The major aim of this project is reaching the young generation who were once in the street and screened from the streets of the town. Their needs for the basic living are met from sheltering to getting all the necessary materials for their education.
Urban Destitute Support
The project is in line with the social protection policy that is an umbrella policy for all rural and urban social protection interventions. The project is called by its name Urban Destitute Support Project (UDSP) and it focuses on the street people rehabilitation. World Bank and Ethiopian government jointly finance the project.
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