Changing Lives!
Brave Hearts Ethiopia (BHE) is an NGO devoted to empowering orphaned and vulnerable children through our holistic care model, focus on quality education and effort to build a safe nourishing environment for them to thrive. BHE works to provide children and youth that have experienced significant physical, psychological, and socio-economic challenges with holistic care and services they need to succeed and blossom.
BHE is currently supporting 63 children and youth with holistic care. BHE also supports 10 female elders as well as the children’s guardians and extended family members through nutrition and health support. 52 guardians receive monthly nutrition support so that they can provide 3 meals a day for the children in their care, the children's siblings and themselves.
Additionally, 48 children and youth have graduated from the Brave Hearts program after finalizing their education or skills training and becoming self-reliant and no longer in need of support. BHE’s first and second toilet projects directly impacted 40 and 180 community members respectively. BHE has directly impacted 393 and indirectly impacted 1,222 children, guardians and community members in its work since its establishment in 2014.
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About Us
Who we are
Brave Hearts Ethiopia (BHE), is non-governmental organization (NGO) empowering Orphan and Vulnerable Children (OVC), enabling access to basic needs and creating opportunities to support OVC eventually to create productive citizens. Learn more.
What we do
Brave Hearts Ethiopia proudly supports children and young adults who had been Orphan and Vulnerable Children (OVC). BHE prides itself in knowing it provides a well-rounded care plan for each child and youth under its support. To ensure a bright future for those under our program we implement our services in a strategic manner from all aspects of life. Learn more.
What Makes Us Different
Our Holistic Care Model specifically aims to reduce vulnerability in order to ensure that factors that place the child at risk are eliminated. Brave Hearts not only supports the child but also ensures the environment around the child is safe, healthy and sustainable to allow the child to blossom and excel. Learn more.
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Our Projects
Education, Health Care, Micro Finance, Training
Education
TUITION, Material and Tutorial Support
Brave Hearts provides the children it supports with tuition fees, school materials, and after-school tutorial support. We motivate all students for their academic success. Learn more.
Library Services
Brave Hearts currently houses over 13,000 books in our library shelfs. Each book is didgitally coded and categorized. Children and youth are able to read at the drop in center or borrow using our electronic system. We also have leveled books. Learn more.
Health
Nutrition, Sanitation, ACCESSIBILITY
Brave Hearts provides Health Care Services, Nutritional Services, Sanitation Support Projects, and Accessibility Provisions for the children, youth and guardians we support.
Micro Finance Assistance
We provide start up grants to the guardians of the children and youth supported by us. We believe that if the child’s guardians have financial security the child or youth will have a more sustainable environment to thrive in. Learn more.
Life Skills, IGA, and HIV/AIDS Training
Brave Hearts provides various trainings services to children and youth as well as their guardians to ensure that the children who graduate from the program have a sustainable future. This enables us to enrich the lives of the children and sustain the livelihood of the guardians. Learn more.
Extra-Curricular Activities
Brave Hearts ensures that the children it supports have the exposure to nature (field trips), social activities (arts, dance, taekwondo lessons) and events (contests, gatherings) in the form of supervised group visits and tours where they safely gain new experiences and knowledge. Learn more.
Our Drop In Center
BHE Program Graduates
Photo Credit: Kelly Pryor
BHE Christmas and New Year Celebrations
Photo Credit: Yonas Taddese