I POUR LIFE ETHIOPIA

MAKING COMMUNITIES STRONGER

I Pour Life Ethiopia is strengthening socially-isolated communities through development and training.

Since 2014, I Pour Life Ethiopia has been providing a way out of poverty through integrated development programs including Women’s Empowerment, Orphan Prevention, Early Childhood Education, and Youth Empowerment. The next step in sustainably transforming the isolated communities of Kore and Debrezeit is to implement the social innovation ecosystem alongside existing programs.

A SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM TO
SELF-RELIANCE

After years of successful program growth and government support, I Pour Life Ethiopia has identified the next step in community development. We believe a social innovation approach is the most effective way to create long-term, sustainable change in the region. By educating and integrating women, youth, and children into a community-owned, innovative development strategy focused on systemic change, the community can become fully self-reliant through education, employment, and entrepreneurship.

DEFINING A SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM

SOCIAL INNOVATION

New services, models, and processes that meet a social need more effectively than the existing solution

ECOSYSTEM

A network of people who develop patterns of behavior to streamline the flow of ideas, talent, and capital throughout a system

SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM

A dynamic new model between people that improves relationships, capabilities, and use of resources through talk, trust, collaboration, experiment, and interconnected growth

SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM TRAINING

Most of the stakeholders in Ethiopia, from both public and private sectors, do not fully realize the transformational potential that will occur from forming a Social Innovation Ecosystem (SIE). The development strategy will allow nationals to solve the unmet social needs of the country from a systematic approach. Currently, IPL-Ethiopia has started the SIE training for the stakeholders in the sub-city of Kolfe Keranyo in Addis Ababa and it will be expanded to Debrezeit town. I Pour Life Ethiopia’s unique approach involves evidence-based curriculum and on-going training in four primary categories, ensuring a roadmap to self-sufficiency for all individuals:

Education Innovation Ecosystem

Youth
Development

Community-based
ECD System

Women
Empowerment

I POUR LIFE ETHIOPIA

MAKING COMMUNITIES STRONGER

I Pour Life Ethiopia is strengthening socially-isolated communities through development and training.

Since 2014, I Pour Life Ethiopia has been providing a way out of poverty through integrated development programs including Women’s Empowerment, Orphan Prevention, Early Childhood Education, and Youth Empowerment. The next step in sustainably transforming the isolated communities of Kore and Debrezeit are to implement the social innovation ecosystem alongside existing programs.

Women’s Empowerment

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Orphan Prevention

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Youth Empowerment

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Social Innovation Ecosystem

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A SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM TO
SELF-RELIANCE

After years of successful program growth and government support, I Pour Life Ethiopia has identified the next step in community development. We believe a social innovation approach is the most effective way to create long-term, sustainable change in the region. By educating and integrating women, youth, and children into a community-owned, innovative development strategy focused on systemic change, the community can become fully self-reliant through education, employment, and entrepreneurship.

A SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM TO SELF-RELIANCE

A system thinking, innovative, and educational approach to sustainable change. We believe a social innovation approach is an effective way to create long-term, sustainable change in the Kore community. By educating and integrating women, youth, and children into a community-owned, innovative development strategy focused on systemic change, the community can become fully self-reliant through education, employment, and entrepreneurship.

DEFINING A SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM

SOCIAL INNOVATION

New services, models, and processes that meet a social need more effectively than the existing solution

ECOSYSTEM

A network of people who develop patterns of behavior to streamline the flow of ideas, talent, and capital throughout a system

SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM

A dynamic new model between people that improves relationships, capabilities, and use of resources through talk, trust, collaboration, experiment, and interconnected growth

SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM (SIE) TRAINING

Most of the stakeholders in Ethiopia, from both public and private sectors, do not fully realize the transformational potential that will occur from forming a Social Innovation Ecosystem. The development strategy will allow nationals to solve the unmet social needs of the country from a systematic approach. Currently, IPL-Ethiopia has started the SIE training for the stakeholders in the sub-city of Kolfe Keranyo in Addis Ababa and it will be expanded to Debre Zeit town.

I Pour Life Ethiopia’s unique approach involves evidence-based curriculum and on-going training in four primary categories, ensuring a roadmap to self-sufficiency for all individuals:

Education Innovation Ecosystem

Youth Development

Community-based ECD System

Women Empowerment

KORE, ETHIOPIA

Kore, Ethiopia is a community of roughly 125,000 people living on a garbage dump just outside the capital of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Many people living in Kore have been diagnosed with leprosy, and as a result, have been shunned and become outcasts in their own society. This community is comprised mostly of women and children. The people of Kore are smart and have unique strengths, but have not been given the opportunity to thrive.

I Pour Life Ethiopia’s primary objective is to equip individuals with the resources and mindset they need to lift themselves out of poverty. The social innovation ecosystem is a hand up, not a hand out approach.

Training Leads to Higher Self-Perception

by Ashley Cardoza | Oct 11, 2019 | Orphan Care, Women's Empowerment

When I Pour Life found Birtukan, she was hopeless, and helpless with very low self-esteem. She was living on her husband’s income from begging. Birtukan was recruited a year ago. She Is married to handicap man who begs for living. She has one child called Banchamlak. She was told by her husband that she does not fit in anywhere. Due to her low self-perception, she stayed at home doing nothing. She was the most demolished women.

A Charcoal Business Keeps a Family Together

by ipourlife | Aug 14, 2019 | General, Orphan Care, Women's Empowerment

When Alemitu first came to I Pour Life, she was one of the most poverty-stricken women we've ever met. She was extremely depressed and discouraged, telling us, "I have no one left. I came to Kore to find a solution for a medical issue, but since I've come, life has...

Together We Rise

by Alia Lee | Nov 28, 2018 | Women's Empowerment

For as long as I can remember, the troubles of the world have felt too big for me. I'd find myself depressed from focusing on the injustices surrounding me and couldn't see my blessings because I was drowning in sadness. I was angry with God; how could he let all of...