{"id":40,"date":"2016-11-20T21:48:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T20:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siddartha.be\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2021-12-10T20:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T19:58:44","slug":"projecten-ethiopie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/siddartha.be\/en\/projecten-ethiopie\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"Ethiopia is a country in the horn of Africa with more than 110 million inhabitants. Due to improved health care and strong economic growth, life expectancy has improved significantly in recent years. According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), 23.5% of the population lives below the poverty line.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1491 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/siddartha.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/320px-LocationEthiopia.svg_.png\" alt=\"\" width= \"320\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siddartha.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/320px-LocationEthiopia.svg_.png 320w, https:\/\/siddartha.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/320px-LocationEthiopia.svg_-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In August 1999 Siddartha, together with 5 enthusiastic young Ethiopians, started working in the capital Addis Abeba. Since May 2001, <em>Siddartha Development Ethiopia<\/em> is also a locally recognized NGO.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2000 we started our first project for single mothers. Then came our initiative for young women in poverty prostitution, the homeless, sewage children, AIDS orphans. Only in the projects in Addis do we currently have about 60 staff members, all Ethiopians, of which more than 40% of the staff used to participate in one of the projects themselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our projects:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/siddartha.be\/andinet\">Andinet<\/a> &#8211; housing and vocational training for sewer children<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/siddartha.be\/ediget-fana\">Ediget Fana<\/a> &#8211; training center for single mothers<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/siddartha.be\/glorieux\">Glorieux<\/a> &#8211; homeless support<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/siddartha.be\/little-heaven\">Little Heaven <\/a>&#8211; housing and support of HIV infected children<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/siddartha.be\/siddartha-youth\">Siddartha Youth<\/a> &#8211; youth movement<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/siddartha.be\/sociale-infrastructure\">Social Infrastructure <\/a>&#8211; construction of toilets and sanitary facilities in the slums<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/364487936?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" frameborder=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<i>Would you like to receive this video on DVD for use in school or other purposes? <a href=\"\/contact\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contact us<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/siddarthaethiopia.org\/am\/\">Looking for information on Siddartha Development Ethiopia in Amharic language? Visit our Ethiopian website.<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia is a country in the horn of Africa with more than 110 million inhabitants. Due to improved health care and strong economic growth, life expectancy has improved significantly in recent years. According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), 23.5% of the population lives below the poverty line. In August 1999 Siddartha, together with&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"no-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8Mies-E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siddartha.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siddartha.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siddartha.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siddartha.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siddartha.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/siddartha.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/siddartha.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siddartha.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siddartha.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}