Higher delegates of WHH visited ORDA Ethiopia

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Andrea (Deputy Regional Manager at Bonn, Germany) & Matthias WHH Ethiopia Head visited ORDA Ethiopia (HQ) in Bahir Dar, Amhara Region.

The Deputy Executive Director of ORDA Ethiopia Ato Tsehay Asmare, welcoming guests, states ORDA Ethiopia’s partnership with Welthungerhilfe/WHH is of strategic and offers great honor.

He also claims this strategic partnership will be further strengthened and with this it will play a great role in filling development gaps of the people & government.

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Ato Dejene Minliku, Advisor for the Executive Director, presented 38 years’ of ORDA Ethiopia achievements and its current capacity to implement projects successfully.

Ato Dejene remarks that:

• ORDA Ethiopia and WHH partnership dated back in 1992.

• Both have been in partnership for more than 30 years.

• The first phase of the program was focusing on relief, rehabilitation and food security in Ibinat, West Belessa & East Belessa until 2004.

• Then, geographic shift was made to Eastern Amhara-Tehuledere, Habru which primarily focused on food security.

• Over the 30 years partnership, ORDA Ethiopia implemented 20 projects in 30 woredas of seven administrative zones and in a metropolitan city- Bahir Dar.

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Currently, the organizations together with WHH are implementing 4 projects in 13 woredas in four zones. The past and current projects benefited 1,306,667 women, men, and children in the Amhara region of Ethiopia.

Higher officials of WHH also appreciate the commitment of ORDA Ethiopia and are looking forward to working together in those big potentials in the future. They also witnessed that the organization is tremendously growing in terms of geographic coverage & the huge resource it manages.

The higher officials also visited the bilaterally established Bahir Dar Plant Tissue Culture Center which is striving to produce & supply diseases free mini tubers as income generating social enterprise.

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Eventually, the senior management team delivered a memorial present to express the ORDA Ethiopia’s honor for the guests of WHH.

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