Our Work

The Kindu Trust's work helps disadvantaged families in Ethiopia.

All our projects are carefully considered for their suitability and applicability to gaining practical skills or positively impacting the community.

Currently we are focusing our main efforts on our child sponsorship project as the mainstay of the Kindu Trust. We also run a number of small community projects that compliment our child sponsorship scheme. As our charity grows we hope to be able to increase the number and size of the projects that we are involved in.

Child Sponsorship

Sponsorship -> Poverty Reduction -> Stable Families -> Fewer Street Children

Many of the children living on the streets in Ethiopia have been abandoned simply because their family can not afford to keep them. The Kindu Trust aims to reduce the number of children living on the street by supporting families in extreme financial difficulties. The project's beneficiaries are street children, abandoned children, orphans, children living in poverty, and poor, blind, disabled, sick and HIV infected children.

Read more about sponsoring a child in Ethiopia.

Clean Gondar project

The Clean Gondar Project runs on Saturday mornings during the long dry season (October to May), keeping children from the inner-city slums out of mischief.

In this innovative project, groups of up to 40 children clean the dirtiest and unhealthiest parts of Gondar for a couple of hours, removing the large piles of rubbish.

They do two hours' work picking up litter in return for breakfast, a shower with soap, and lunch. After four sessions the group receives clothes (secondhand clothes purchased locally in Gondar market). A new group of boys and girls is then recruited for the next four Saturdays.

In return for their time and hard work, children gain new clothes and food, as well as learning team skills, and a sense of purpose and contribution. Sacks and rubber gloves are provided by the Trust, with shovels and wheelbarrows supplied by local district councils.

Other projects include:

Weekly meetings to educate mothers. They are often single parents and living in extreme poverty. Training helps them give better childcare, and teaches them about childhood diseases, nutrition, food preparation and hygiene.
Pre-nursery play groups to ensure toddlers have access to toys and educational tools to encourage learning and play
Skills and vocational training for young adults up to 24 years old.
Training in weaving skills for a group of blind woman.