Arakele is committed to supporting the local economy by employing Ethiopian staff and sourcing all materials locally including the sewing machines and school furnishings. Our mission is to provide disadvantaged and marginalised women in Ethiopia with the skills and self confidence to lift them out of poverty and to fulfill their potential in life
OUR GOALS
• To provide students from all backgrounds with high quality skills based training
• To equip students with the self-confidence and life skills they need to succeed
• To both hire or link graduates to employment opportunities
• To increase the number of women in paid employment within the Ethiopian textile sector
• To support the local Ethiopian economy by sourcing staff and materials locally including sewing machines, materials and furnishings
WHY WE STARTED
• Globally, 77.6 million girls are currently not enrolled in school: UNESCO
• Of 163 million illiterate youth today, more than half are female: UNFPA
• Globally 250 million adolescent girls live in conditions of poverty: GIRL EFFECT
• When 10 percent more girls go to school, a country’s GDP increases: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
• An extra year of secondary school education for a girl enables the country’s GDP to increase by 15-25 percent: WORLD BANK
• Educated women are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children: UNGEI
• A girl with basic education is 3 times less likely to contract HIV: MAKE IT RIGHT
• Children with educated mothers are more likely to live past age 5: MAKE IT RIGHT
• Almost half of the worlds out of school girls live in Sub-Saharan Africa: WORLD BANK
•Ethiopia has some of the highest rates of global child marriage; estimates show at least 50
percent of women marrying before they reach 18: USAID
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