BFE established by Mr.Sanka Sepe and his family on April 2016.The Vision to establish BFE had come to the mind of Mr. Sanka Sepe when he was working for World Vision Ethiopia (WVE) in the Omosheleko Area development programme in 2007. He had been critically observing how the implementation different projects by organizations had been excluding communities (lately he called the unreached) section of the community. In 2014 this had been fueled by his day-to-day observation of the community in the rural areas of Yaya Gullele while he was living with his family. In September 2014 when he was taking his first daughter, Feven Sanka, to register for pre-school he observed that the school situations were not suitable for children. Then he said “my daughter may not attend in such school however many other children worthto safe and clean school”. Further, he started to assess the existent of the problem of the unreached section of the community such as orphan and vulnerable children, elderly people, women, and people with disability, etc. and working on strategies how to address them. He was praying for long period of time with his wife (Firehiwot Belay) and other family members on the situation in front of the Almighty Lord.
Then he shared the vision to his most beloved Mum Franny Treurniet (The founder and Secretary of Food for All of the Netherlands, FFA). She was bringing clothes from Holland and Sanka was distributing it to the needy people in his own rented house compound and by travelling to the rural needy households with government peoples, community representatives and the church leaders in Yaya Gullele district.
The in kind support from Mum Fran was increasing from time-to-time and strengthened the vision of Sanka in addressing the needy people. Then Mum Franny has connected him with Mr.Loekopejan, the former Director of Stichting ZIJN, who visited schools in Yaya Gullele district in the beginning of 2015. TheStichting ZIJN was very kind to improve the situation of the schools especially in Kindergarten and primary division and FFA was willing to work on improving the situation of the unreached section. Finally, Mr. Loe and Mum Franny suggested to establish NGO to achieve his vision. After two years of rigorous work BFE have been established and registered by Federal Republic of Ethiopia Charity and Society Agency as Ethiopian resident charity Association in accordance with Charity and Society Proclamation no. 621/2009 on April 21, 2016. In addition to this, BFE has been certified, re-registered and accorded legal personality with registry number 3618 on August 14, 2019 as legal local civil organization in accordance with civil society organizations proclamation no.
1113/2019. Currently, BFE operating in Oromia and Amhara region with head office located in Addis Ababa. In order to achieve its basic objective, BFE is working on the following major thematic areas to enhance the resilience capacity of the target community.
To serve the most vulnerable peoples with a passion of God to show they are worth for better life.
To see the unreached section of the community are empowered and have brighter future.
The suprem power of BFE is the generalAssembly (GA).The GA has elected the Board of Directors (BDs) who are closely following thework of the Executive Director(ED).The ED is responsible for coordinating the day-to-day implementation of the projects with collaboration of all staff and stakeholders.
BFE facilitates integrated project interventions (agriculture/food security, WASH, Education, Climate Change, etc.) for holistic empowerment of the unreached section of the community to open a perspective of brighter future while buildingresilient life.BFE works with collaboration all stakeholders’ giving emphasis on community participation and contribution (10% to 40%) whichis vital for coast effectiveness, fostering localization,ownership and sustainability.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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