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 isolated communities in Ethiopia is by bringing all key stakeholders together with the same goal and understanding towards sustainability. This process is called Social Innovation.

A HAND UP, NOT A HAND OUT 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:

Women
Empowerment

Youth
Development

Community-based
ECD System

Education Innovation Ecosystem

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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 isolated communities in Ethiopia is by bringing all key stakeholders together with the same goal and understanding towards sustainability. This process is called Social Innovation.

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 HAND UP, NOT A HAND OUT 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 (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:

Women Empowerment

Youth Development

Community-based ECD System

Education Innovation Ecosystem

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.

I POUR LIFE ETHIOPIA STAFF

I Pour Life Ethiopia has full-time staff that boast more than 30 years of experience in Ethiopia and East Africa establishing successful programs to lift communities out of poverty.

Jeya (Madurendrum) Jeyachandran

Ethiopia Country Director

Sara Zewdie

Program Coordinator

How COVID-19 is Still Impacting Kore, Ethiopia

by ipourlife | Jun 20, 2020 | General, I Pour Life Ethiopia, Women's Empowerment

As the pandemic is slowly disarmed in the United States, several other countries are just beginning to feel the effects of COVID-19. This is sadly true for Ethiopia as there are now over 1,000 cases in the country whereas a month ago there were only 15 confirmed...

Get To Know the Founder of I Pour Life

by ipourlife | Jun 12, 2020 | General, I Pour Life Ethiopia, LifeStrengths, Missouri, Orphan Care, Women's Empowerment

I Pour Life was founded in 2011 by Julie Higgins. After meeting a refugee woman in El Salvador named Rosa, God called Julie to step away from the corporate world and begin creating solutions for marginalized populations. When she met Rosa, she asked if Julie would...

Women Who Defy the Odds in Kore, Ethiopia

by ipourlife | May 22, 2020 | General, I Pour Life Ethiopia, LifeStrengths, Women's Empowerment

Both in the USA and in Ethiopia, I Pour Life focused on advancing education and preparing youth for independence. We have a particular focus on supporting youth who have odds stacked against them. Tesfa and Meaza are two women who have worked hard to overcome the...