Community Outreach - Bushulo MNCHSC

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Since 2022, Bushulo Mother, Newborn & Child Health Specialty Center has carried its outreach beyond the hospital gate and into the villages of Tullo Sub-City — one of the most disadvantaged, geographically isolated communities around Hawassa. Nearly 80% of mothers here still deliver at home. Farmland is scarce. Chronic malnutrition and preventable illness follow families across generations. Phase II, "Empowering Families, Sustaining Communities: Health, Livelihoods, and Education for All," extends that commitment through 2028 — an integrated response across three fronts: resilient family livelihoods, strengthened community health, and self-reliant, empowered families and youth. Every activity below is already underway, verified, and documented in the field.

Since 2022 · Extending through 2028 • Finchawa · Tulla Geter · Haranfama

OUR GOAL

To strengthen the health, education, and economic resilience of vulnerable families in Tullo-Kebele by empowering women and youth, improving access to essential services, and fostering sustainable, self-reliant communities.

Targeting pregnant women, mothers, children and youth, and vulnerable caregivers of very low economic status across Finchawa, Tulla Geter and Haranfama.

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OUR THREE PILLARS

Resilient Livelihoods

Improved access to essential resources for sustainable, self-reliant families

Improved seed & supportive material
Agricultural & livestock training
Expansion of SILC savings groups
Seed money for income-generating activities

Community Health

Strengthened community health and reduced preventable diseases

Mobile health services & wound care
Hospital referrals for abnormal findings
Community hygiene education
Pit latrines & water storage tanks

Youth & Family Empowerment

Knowledge and skills for families and youth to be self-reliant

Youth vocational skill training
Tutorial support for female students
School uniforms & learning materials
Access to education for children with disabilities

STORIES FROM THE FIELD

Programme Briefing

Watch an overview of our outreach programme

Finchawa Outreach Day

Highlights from our community outreach activities

GAP training — theory and field, led by an agro-economist

With the technical expertise of an agro-economist consultant, 200 beneficiaries completed Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) training in both theory and hands-on field practice — built around each household's own, already prepared and ready-to-use land size, so the learning could be applied immediately, plot by plot.

200 beneficiaries trained theory + field practice agro-economist led

OUTCOME 1 · OUTPUT 1.1

Seed & fertilizer distributed — every household is now planting

Improved seed and fertilizer have been distributed to all 200 beneficiary households across Finchawa, Haranfama and Tulla Geter. Every household is now actively planting on their own land, and our community volunteers are out in the field on an ongoing basis, monitoring progress and supporting beneficiaries plot by plot.

200 / 200 households planting seed + fertilizer distributed ongoing volunteer field monitoring