Our Story
About Us
Our Story
A disheartened young lady observed in her surrounding a pitiful scenario whereby young girls go early in the morning to a forest area in the highlands of Addis to fetch firewood. The burden of life becomes more unbearable when these girls get raped.
If they are lucky enough to escape that, the routine continues to take the fire wood back to home, sale some cotton products made during the night and buy some grain from the market, take the grain to their mother, and run to school before it is too late, most often without having breakfast. Cases of dropouts from school or being completely unable to start education in the first place is the most common fate of such girls.
If they get raped, life simply becomes more miserable, with all the consequences of pregnancy, abortion and associated social, economic and health traumas.
This vicious circle affects the babies of such girls and definitely their families: thereby leaving an already destitute family in further social and economic shambles.
Founder
The founder of (Talita Rise Up) is Atikilt Janka, who remembers those sorrowful incidents happening to poor, helpless girls in her area, with her family. It is a non-profit, non-governmental humanitarian organization.
Talita Rise Up was established with the main objective of delivering an organized support so that the living burdens of destitute girls, orphaned children and the aged people would be alleviated to a certain extent.Talita Rise Up aims to contribute its share by delivering its support to at least a limited number of girls, orphaned children and the aged. Its initial objective aims to cover three regional areas in Ethiopia, namely, Sidama, Oromia and Addis Ababa.
Our Vision
ALITA RISE UP’S vision is to alleviate the life burdens of destitute girls, orphaned children, children living with HIV/AIDS and the aged, and enable them to have a hopeful and better life by fighting poverty with education.
Our Mission
Our mission aspires to help destitute girls. orphaned children and the aged in objectively selected areas with the specific end result of enabling the girls to go to school or have a trade-related training to self-sustained life; help the children from languishing in childhood misery; and support the helpless aged to have an honorable life through partnership with local and international donors, individuals, institutions and the public service.
Our Goal
We aim to address the most affected destitute girls, orphaned children and the aged in identified areas of the three regions through humanitarian support.
Objective
• Enable destitute girls to attend school support them in their school fees, teaching materials and tutorials.
• Provide basic hygienic materials to girls
• Provide girls with skills training that are unwilling to go to school and enable them to run their own business.
• Establish a care center for children living with HIV/AIDS and try to find foster families for these children locally and abroad
• Provide support to orphans by establishing satellite families within the community.
• Provide support to elderly people with no apparent support from relatives of known siblings.
• Establish community based transfer of the support of all three beneficiaries at the end of the lifetime of the project.