Hawassa Branch Office

Hawassa Office was opened in 1996 in Hawassa City Catholic Mission premises and then moved to Hawassa Health Care Station premises until 2010. He has been working until 2015 and due to the expansion of the health center into a hospital, the government has built the office next to the Catholic Mission headquarters in Manaheria sub-district, Piazza Kebele administration. OSSHD Hawassa Branch Served as the first philanthropic organization in the city by providing financial, medical, material, counseling services and educational tools to those affected by the HIV virus and children who lost their parents due to the virus.

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In preventive work, OSSHD Hawassa branch has been working to make youths accessible by providing different trainings (Life skill, Peer Educator, Club Mgt,) to youths outside of school and establishing a youth club. Among the youth clubs that used to work at the level of clubs, Tamra Youth Club of Shashemene City, at Yirgalem Beza for All Youth Club have developed themselves and are currently working as organizations. OSSHD has been working in Hawassa city to train the leaders of the community to reduce the isolation and discrimination in the society by establishing a coalition of opportunities under the name Let's save the generation. Work has been done to enable those who are able to work by providing income generating training to people with the virus in their blood to submit a plan for their work by providing them with initial financial support. OSSHD Hawassa Branch with WORLD FOOD PROGRAM provided food support to those living with the virus.

Key Achievements of OSSHD Hawassa Branch

1. With financial support from the VIVO project, about 10 orphans who have severe problems were selected by the representative of the organization and bought a house on behalf of the office, allocated a budget and hired a nanny for the children.
2. With the financial support received from PACT Ethiopia, he established a free HIV testing center in the premises of the health center where the office was located and provided services to the community.
3. With the financial support received from CDC, by installing a mobile HIV testing tent in Hawassa city and surrounding cities up to 150 km away, he has been doing the work from counseling to testing and sending those who have the virus to health facilities to get services.
4. With financial support received from DSW, a free telephone line has been opened for the community and two counselors have been employed to provide telephone counseling services. In addition, by giving peer participation training to young women and opening a girls' club, work has been done to enable the women of each district to conduct peer-to-peer discussions and learn together with the youth and children.
5. With financial support from PLAN ETHIOPIA, HIV prevention work was carried out by educating the local community in Shebedinona Boricha district and health centers capacity building work was done.
6. With the financial support received from the CORDAID project, by giving income generation skills training to the relatives and children with the virus in their blood to get rid of the welfare, and working with savings associations to get them free from the welfare, many have benefited by opening a savings account in the savings association and depositing the money to work and save.
7. With the financial support received by USAID, work has been done to provide support for educational materials to about 2000 children who have lost their parents due to the HIV virus and to provide HIV prevention training to the community.
8. It is a 2019-2022 project by UNFPA in cooperation with the Directorate of Women, Youth and Children at Hawassa University.
9. 200 female students who are identified as poor, provide hygiene products, provide them with photocopying services.
10. Various trainings have been given so that female students can prevent sexual violence.
11. Organized work has been done by buying and giving internet, furniture, computers, fiction books, coffee and tea utensils and other items to the female students' club.
12. 3000 students were given peer-to-peer training by providing reproductive health and peer-to- peer training to male and female students.
13. Provided SGBV training to about 300 campus police and proctors.
14. The University's Gender Policy and Anti-Harassment Code guidelines have been published.