What We Do

Early child care and development (ECD)- inspired safe and secured infants

ECD program is one of the core programs of CCFO which focuses on under five-years-old children. The program is designed to create accesses for preschool and improved the quality of service provided in government and community owned ECD centers.
Early childhood development program is one of the core programs which CCFO is focusing on under five children to practice early care and development of children. The program is focusing on health Nutrition and appropriate child care options by conducting, ECD programs by constructing preschools and supporting government o class by indoor and outdoor play materials, CCFO is also supporting the Enrolled children parents in the empowering of their lively hood by creating Income Generating Activity opportunities through community self-help group formation and cash injection based up on their contribution

Food and Nutrition

CCFO has been working to address deficiency of food and nutrition of families and children in all its project areas.
Based on the assessment, CCFO provides supplementary food elements like Fafa flour, edible oil as well as milk powder, vitamins and de-worm tablet for those under five children which are found to be moderate and severely malnutrition to improve their developmental health conditions. CCFO’s food and nutrition support also extends to those children following their ART at health facility level to enable them cope up the impact of HIV/AIDS and become physically strong. In close collaboration with health extension workers, CCFO has been undertaking assessments to identify OVCs especially under-five and most vulnerable for malnourishment which need special attention and follow-ups.

1. Availability of libraries and furnishing it.
2. Availability of separate toilet for boys and girls
3. Availability of girls’ menstruation and hygiene management room.
4. Child protection activities
5. Making the school compound green

Basic Education -Inspired Educated and self-confident children

CCFO starting from its establishment in 1995 made an attempt and put practical the aforementioned components stated here above. Furthermore, the organization has been working in resilience building on parents just to support their children and adopt mechanisms in case of adversities. The reasons for dropout in the area where CCFO has been working were seemed economic by its nature. Hence, to reduce dropouts, CCFO has been working in women empowerment which means the organization organized mothers of enrolled children in CSSG (Community self-saving Group) and provided full package- Provided training on ME-SPM, matching fund, technical support and monitoring and evaluation tasks. The organized CSSG now became self-reliant.

These components are

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1. Enhancing curriculum.
2.Availability of pedagogical centers and equipping it with the necessary materials
3. Availability of laboratory and chemicals and apparatus
4.Access of play grounds and required materials

Humanitarian Interventions

CCFO has been actively engaged in humanitarian interventions to assist people who are victims of armed conflict, famines, and natural disasters in its intervention areas CCFO has supported community members with emergency response and preparedness in its target areas. Through our emergency response activities, Internally Displaced People (IDPs) who are affected by conflicts, floods and drought have been reached through the support.
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Gender and Child Protection.

Ensuring gender equality and protection of children from abuse and exploitation through establishing and strengthening community based child protection mechanisms (CBCPM)

Gender and Child Protection

Since its establishment, child protection had always been CCFO’s priority area. To effectively address child, abuse cases in its project areas, CCFO has been working closely with local government partners like police, women and children affairs and the community. As such it has been actively engaged in establishing and strengthening child right committees, organizing frequent refresher trainings, equipping the committee with necessary assistive wok materials. Through its effort, it was able to enhancement the capacity of child protection committee to timely respond child abuse cases occurring in the community.

The organization has also been working to ensure gender equality in the past through different strategies including working with school boys, girls and adult boys and women in schools and the household to aware on the role of boys in schools to prevent any form of school based GBV and men to play their role in the house chores and child care and support and to stand alongside with their sisters and wife’s in all family affairs. Its regular discussions which have been undertaken at school and community settings on gender equality and GBV and its use of events like African children day, International children day, Women’s was celebrated so as to enhance the advocacy on GBV and child protection.

Its interventions in gender issues increased awareness, attitudinal and behavioral changes among the target groups regarding gender equality and GBV. It also contributed in creating safe school environments for girls and boys through the implementation of addressing school based GBV. In such projects, CCFO has been actively involved in strengthening school based gender clubs through capacity building trainings, material supports and improving mini medias involvement and child parliaments in educating the wider school community members on harassment, harmful practices like early marriages and FGM. The interventions in training and empowerment activities both for girls, boys contributed for girls to voice their concerns and facilitated their leadership and assertiveness. Through its school based GBV interventions, CCFO was able to create a conducive environment for school girls who enabled them feel free to talk about incidences of abuses and to feel confident that their grievances receive response.

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CCFO was implemented the project Entitled -Enhancing Livelihood,/Food security, IGA & environmental protection Project activities and with this project both environmental protection and livelihood improvement activities were well done and a significant change was achieved. It was engaged in community based natural resource managements through a number of interventions.

Natural Resource Management

The main interventions in natural resource management includes nursery site establishment, High quality Fruit Seedling for Women’s watershed development and rural livelihood developments, Energy saving stove biogas and others. It is one of the proponents of green legacy and environmental protection through the engagement of planting of trees and different fruits in urban and rural settings which contributed for environmental protection as well as enabled the community to engage and stand for suitable living environment.

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Natural Resource Management

CCFO has been working to address deficiency of food and nutrition of families and children in all its project areas.

Parental Education

CCFO has been engaged in awareness creation and alter practices and behavior in a positive way with in the community on parenting skill, child development and others social issues through undertaking coffee ceremonies and home visits. In all its project areas, regular coffee ceremony programs have been organized with the use of volunteers which enabled to address about 6000 parents/guardians.

Parental Education

The coffee ceremony sessions have been undertaken din each selected kebeles whereby the sessions proceed while parents wait to pick their children from schools; at Village level with the participation of community setting and home level where volunteers provide need based one- to- one mentoring and coaching support to target families. As a result, awareness and practice of parents with regard to child care and development improved. It also improved parent’s communication skills with their children and contributed for families to provide guidance for their children’s so that children become disciplined, respectful and love their parents.

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Livelihood Development Programs

CCFO’s economic empowerment of families of orphans and vulnerable children is one of important interventions in addressing the basic necessities of the family by creating Income Generating Activity opportunities through community self-help group formation and cash injection based up on their contribution. And also providing in kind support of goat and sheep for rural and urban communities.

Wash

It is plausible that a given school should be child friendly if the anticipated education outcome to be real. Thus, to keep gender equity and reduce stress in female from absence of school Child-Friendly Hygiene and Sanitation room and Facilities, CCFO constructed four MHM (Menstruation and Hygiene Management room room) at Olenchiti #1, Olenchiti # 2 ,Boset High school and Tedecha primary schools.

Wash

CCFO has been working to improve the water, hygiene and sanitation condition of the community in the past years. With close partnership with local partner some the major activities done with Wash:-
1. Water line extension at school and community
2. Separated Girls sanitation room
3. Toilet in targeted school

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