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Among the many projects which World Vision has carried out with the benefit of support from Charitable Trusts, are two significant interventions in the Amhara region in north-western Ethiopia, which were enabled by generous contributions from the Jerusalem Trust (a Sainsbury family trust) and the Band Aid Charitable Trust.

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Health Centre Expansion, Zemero

Health Centre Expansion, Zemero
 
 The small town of Zemero is in a district of the Amhara region which is home to 250,000 people, yet has only one hospital to serve the entire population. The local community in Zemero – some 30km from the hospital, identified the upgrading of their existing small clinic as a developmental priority. 

With the help of World Vision and with funding from the Jerusalem Trust, they were able to design, build, and equip a new six-room block which has enabled the clinic to function as a fully-fledged health centre that is benefiting around 30,000 people (including 10,000 women and 4,000 children)

The new centre provides facilities for immunisations; emergency treatment; family planning; maternal and child health monitoring; and general practice. The clinic  is now in the care of the local community, and the local government have pledged appropriate support and resources to ensure its sustainability.

Environmental and Economic Development, Tenta and Gera Keya

Environmental and Economic Development, Tenta and Gera Keya

 In the communities of Gera Keya and Tenta, which lie to the north of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, food insecurity has been the most pressing difficulty faced by the population, having arisen due to decades of deforestation, farmland fragmentation, unreliable rainfall, and drought. In 2006, World Vision Ethiopia began a three-year project to enhance household food security through increased crop and livestock yields, with the support of the Band Aid Charitable Trust.

The implementation of this substantial project is involving activities such as small-scale irrigation development; livestock development (including income generation); soil and water conservation interventions; road construction; and the capacity-building of local, community-based organisations such as farming cooperatives.

 It is expected that a total of 57,000 people will benefit from the project, which will improve the sustainability of local communities and the local environment in the long-term, and made a tremendous difference to the lives and opportunities of the people of Tenta and Gera Keya.