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STICHING OUD IN AFRIKA, Postbus 225 3300 AG DORDRECHT The Netherlands Phone +31 786149975

(+31 78635 11 11)

Re: Application to renew Old Peoples Help in Alecu

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the Year 2009.

Dear Henk, Dear Board, We, Alecu Daughters of Charity are grateful for the help you have been sending for the year 2008. Now we would like to request your kind cooperation to renew Old Peoples' Help for the elderly of Alecu for the year 2009. The details are as follows.

Background of the Project area The Daughters of Charity carne in 1962 to Dembidollo, Danka. They traveled to Alecu on horseback for 30 years as an outreach to give services to the people by opening a clinic. Then because the service demanded by the people in Alecu was more than the sisters could address by outreach program, the sisters decided to open house in Alecu in 1993. Since 1993 as the sisters are stationed in Alecu, thcy were able to extend their services to education, wamen in development and other services to the paar of the area. They have opened Montessori

kindergarten

which

takes about

140 children

accommodates them with feeding and if needed clothing.

from the areas annually

and

This is because most of the children

come from paar families and most of them are hungry. The wamen program is mostly in raising the awareness program in gender issues, and tries to improve the income ofthe wamen of Alecu. The sisters also visit the houses of the paar in the area and render the services needed by the poorest of the poor.

For exarnple they have helped those who lived in dilapidated housed to

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build a decent house, helped those who have no oxen to buy an ox in order to enable them to use it to plough their land so that they can feed themsel ves. They also help poor students for house rent, educational materials and school fees for vocationallevels. The poly clinic has been and is still serving 7 Kebeles (local administration) with a population of 22,000 with an outreach MCH and vaccination programs in 4 areas.

Alecu is 22 Kms away from the town of Dembidollo.

The mud road which leads from

Dembidollo to Alecu is mostly eroded by torrential tropical rain every rainy season and is very slippery after rain. It is a must that one has to wait until the sun comes out and dries the mud if it rained in order to get to Alecu. If not, the cal' gets .tuck in the mud or slides in the mud which is dangerous. To drive to Alecu takes one hour and thrce hours on foot by short cut. The residents are farmers. They grow maize, surgom, wheat and they are also engaged in animal husbandry. The size of land for households is vcr)' 'imitcd,

So they do not have enough to feed

themselves the year around. They are poor.

For the elders in Alecu, life is hard. The only help for them comes from their family. Vet as the people in the area are on subsistenee economy, thcy can not provide much for the elders who need medication on regular bases, clothing and fOO,I. The OPA program arrived last year and it has been a God sent blessing for these people.

Objectives:The overall objective of the Daughters of Charity i-: to work with the poorest people in the area towards alleviation of poverty and improvement in their social wellbeing.

The specific objective

ofthis project is to provide financial help for the elderly who have no one to help.

Financial Supply:The provision of financial supply to Alecu elderly «ould make the life of the elders better. The only help which was directly addressing the elders in the area is the one which we got from OPA; and the elders were very happyabout

it and have been looking forward for that help since

it started. The monthly 25 birr has been mostly uscd by the elders to buy food as this year has been difficult with high cast of food items and failure of the short rain for the harvest. The one hundred birr which is provided for the Easter and Christmas has made their feasts more festive as it covers sorne of their casts and brought more food to the house.

Budget for the year 2009:Monthiv Allowance for 70 Elders Christmas gifts Easter gifts unforseen casts for elders Total

25x70x12 100x70 100x70

21,000.00 7,000.00 7,000.00 5,000.00 40,000.00

Reporting and Evaluati n We have to admit that we have not been reporting

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time for the year 2008. But we will try to

improve and report in time for the year 2009. We know that the help has been a great value for the elders and for their sake, we will try to report or 'ime. We are sorry for the inconvenience.