GIVING & PARTNERSHIP UPDATES

We'd love to create a space where you feel connected to where you're giving. As a company, DressWell GiveWell develops a long-term partnership with an entity, and commits to giving a monthly donation. Together with the non-profit partner, we look at the needs and how our vision aligns with those needs, and set a monthly goal for giving.

Not every month has been easy, but we've been able to hit our goals each month, and keep up with our commitment to give since November 2016! We hope to post some snapshots of our how our contributions are making a difference!

Hope in Ethiopia, update May 2017

DressWell GiveWell provides the line budget for clothing/shoes for Hope in Ethiopia. This is a portion taken from a report, which describe the clothes-buying process for the children. The English is a little choppy, but you should be able to get a glimpse of how your are helping to clothe & create wholeness for these kids. It looks like this picture was taken of some of the older kids who were able to choose their own clothes!

2.1.2. Provision of school uniform

In this biannual the project provides school uniform which is very essential to attend school and it is basic provision for the betterment of school status of the children in the project. CHH have also needs to have school uniform in order to attend school unless they even couldn’t enter school compound.

Therefore, the project provided school uniform for 98 (46M and 52F) CHH who are currently in school. Now they are attending school without any problem related to uniform. As a result children in the project are able to attend regularly and smoothly their school in their respective classes and it has increased children regular school participation and contributed to their performance.

2.1.3. Provision of casual cloth and shoes

The purchase of casual cloth has been conducted for all 107 (52 female) CHH and de/facto CHH registered in the program and the purchase has been carried out by the assistance of project staff based on the preference of OCHH and regarding de/facto CHH who are not old enough to choose the type of cloth for themselves, their families are consulted during the purchase in addition to the staffs. Accordingly, the project bought casual cloth like trousers, Shirts and shoes for boys, and dress, shirt and
shoes for girls. Some of the children added additional clothes depending on their choice and the price of the cloth was within the budget allowed to be utilized per child i.e. about 900 Birr. The purchase of casual cloth created on them happiness, sense of belongingness and gave them the chance to change their school uniform when they came back from school and it also give long lasting time for the school uniform which is distributed once in every year.