LEADSTAR CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY

MA PROGRAMME: DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT

COURSE NAME: PROJECT PLANNING, EVALUATION & MANAGEMENT

ASSIGNMENT TITLE: FUNDING PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY CENTER

& ORPHANAGE BY GOOD HOPE ADAMA CHRISTIAN MINISTRY, ADAMA, OROMIA,
ETHIOPIA

SUBMITTED BY: GAMTESSA MERDASA

SUBMITTED TO: DR.

DATE: FEBRUARY 9,
ADAMA, OROMIA, ETHIOPIA
 PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY CENTER & ORPHANAGE

BY GOOD HOPE ADAMA CHRISTIAN MINISTRY, ADAMA

( Project Proposal For Funding )

Project Title: Orphanage & Community Center

Organization Name: Good Hope Adam Christian Ministry
Project Address: OROMIA, ADAMA CITY
Contact Persons: 1. Dr. Bayisa Bedhadha, Director,
cell phone +251929772672
: 2. Pastor Boja Sufani, Secretary
cell phone +251935
: 3. Belay Bekele, Treasurer
cell phone +251967272503
Project Location: Goro District, Adama City
 COVERING LETTER

PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR BUILDING A COMMUNITY CENTER & ORPHANAGE

To: Friends and Well-wishers/ Partners

The Management Committee/Board of Directors of Good Hope Adama Christian Ministry is pleased to
submit this request for your review and assistance. We look forward to the partnership in our cooperation
effort to build the glory of God to this community by putting up a permanent community center and
orphanage.

We propose to put up a community center and orphanage for orphans and vulnerable children to house,
the orphans in our care and also serve as a space where children and youth receive care, can safely play
and study, and where learn the skills they need to become empowered and to overcome poverty. In
addition to the death of parents, this is a region where a lot of children and women come from different
regions for many different reasons. For example, displacement of parents because of conflicts and
droughts and who cannot afford quality education and earn a living. Many orphans and homeless
children are living in the city on different streets and places. Our board has seen it wise to put up an
orphanage to care for them all at one point. This will avoid further frustrations and offer quality care to
orphans. It is our goal to provide education, quality care, and love for orphans and vulnerable children.

The project aims at eradicating illiteracy, showing God’s love and care for the members of the
community. The new community center will be a place of relief for less fortunate children, widows,
youth, poverty-stricken families, and the surrounding community.

We shall be very grateful to partner with you to realize this dream.

Yours sincerely,
Dr. Bayisa Bedhadha
Director

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Good Hope Adama Christian Ministry is a Christian-based ministry providing critical assistance to street
children, orphans, and families struggling in terrible poverty in the city.

The establishment of a Community Center & Orphanage is a visionary initiative aimed at creating a
positive impact on the well-being and development of the community. This multi-faceted facility will
serve as a hub for community engagement, fostering unity, and providing a nurturing home, God’s love
and hope for orphaned and vulnerable children
 The management is looking forward to the fund for building a community center and orphanage. The
estimated or proposed budget for the project is around 88000 USD with an expected additional
requirement of financial aid depending on the availability of funds from the donors.

The organization gives a 9-month sequential timeline in which the different divided project activities for
each month are implemented.

The expected project result is the well-constructed center and morally, socially, spiritually, and
professionally developed personality of the targeted group who overcome problems and can change the
future world.

The Management should be responsible for monitoring and controlling the affairs of the project from the
start to the end and it’s important that participating concerned stakeholders, may be donors.

We hope that you will be close partners with us as well as we soldier on with this noble project.

2. INTRODUCTION

Good Hope Adama Christian Ministry has an interest in putting up a community center and Orphanage.
The organization was established in 2010 ETC as a charity group by an interested group of people who
come together from Adama Birhana Kristos church to help vulnerable children and other community
members in the city. Then after, by expanding its mission, the organization grew up to the ministry level
as “Good Hope Adama Christian Ministry” rooted its name from bible verse 2Thessalonians 2:16 (“
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us and hath
given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace”). Over the past three years, the ministry
has been preparing itself to bring orphan and vulnerable children into one shelter or center and serve
basic care to 50 homeless children and orphans as well as providing children from our surrounding
community with free care, counseling, school supplies and education scholarships. Many of these
Children come from broken or poverty-stricken families and our center is a haven for them, whenever
they need it.

Our staff does a remarkable job in the different places available to them. Operating in different places on
the city streets outside of the building, they’re helping vulnerable groups of community members.
Especially, children benefit from the vital services of our supporters including congregation members
make possible.

In this proposal, our dream is to put up such a project that will contribute to a very positive change
among members of the community. To explain more, it is to put up a community center and orphanage
for orphans and vulnerable children to house the orphans in our care and also serve as a space where
children and youth receive care, can safely play and study, and learn the skills they need to become
empowered and to overcome poverty.
 Therefore, next to God, with your help, we can build a new facility to accommodate many more
deserving children

3. PROJECT CONTENT/SCOPE

The new community center will be a place of relief for less fortunate children, widows, youth, poverty-
stricken families, and the surrounding community. It will be distinguished by an integrated focus on
child protection, youth development, family support and social services, and community development. It
will extend the school day and week, reaching children, students, their families, and community residents
in unique ways.

It will serve as a space where children and youth receive care, can safely play and study, and learn the
skills they need to become empowered and be entrepreneurs in addition to other different disciplines. It
has a boarding school in one center and is located in Adama city specifically around the area called
Goro.

4. PROBLEM STATEMENT

Many children have been orphaned through the death of both parents mainly due to HIV/AIDS,
abandonment, and or neglect by family members and the majority of parents are struggling in poverty
and can no longer provide for basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter and an environment conducive
to good health for their children.

Additionally, low income coupled with unemployment has exacerbated the problem. Furthermore, there
are a lot of people who came to the mentioned project area because of displacement by conflicts and
drought problems from another region. A good example is those Hararghe Oromo people who were
displaced from the Somali region by ethnic conflict and settled without enough infrastructure, food,
clothing, and shelter. Many of them lost their parents (one or both, father or mother or father & mother)
and became orphans. There are many fathers with their children left without mothers and the inverse is
true. As a result, most of them are begging in the streets of the city with their children, most children are
engaged in unwholesome activities such as child prostitution leading to the spread of disease in addition
to high teen pregnancy rates, juvenile delinquency, and waywardness. Unfortunately, government cannot
adequately address the humanitarian and social needs of these disadvantaged children like access to basic
education, proper health care and nutrition which are now amounting to serious health and social
problems for the Adama city’s society.

5. PROJECT GOAL/OBJECTIVES

a) The Goal / Main Objective

 The Project aims to offer quality living standards and basic education to orphans/vulnerable children and
equip the community with the skills and knowledge to overcome poverty.

b Specific Objectives

 To build a new facility to accommodate many more deserving children.

 To construct dormitories for both orphan boys and girls
 To provide quality basic education
 To empower children with reading resources.
 To teach life skills to children and youth at risk
 To teach the correct biblical truth
 To uplift the abilities of poor orphans and vulnerable children and youth whose talents and abilities are
being neglected
 To teach proper knowledge about social problems including HIV/AIDS to the community

6. PROJECT ANTICIPATED RESULTS

 It is expected that the number of beneficiaries shall increase depending on the expansion and
improvement of the facility.

 Beneficiaries will be provided with home, security, and education

 child-related crimes in the area of the facility will be reduced

 Children shall be nurtured in the Holy Scriptures and given sound Christian teaching, discipline, and
counseling.

 Widows and young mothers will be empowered with entrepreneurial skills

 Improved knowledge of social problems including HIV/AIDS

 Improved talents and abilities

 Children will be empowered with computer skills

 Well-developed personality, overcome their problems and prepared themselves to solve their
community & similar world problems

7. BUDGET

The requested budget for the project is around 88000 USD and the detailed division or allocation of this
budget is presented in the next step the project implementation timeline.

8. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE (DEPENDS ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS)

TIME FRAME ACTIVITY ACTION BY USD REMARKS

 Purchase of building  Management

20, 000
1st May – 30st June 2024 materials Committee
 Fencing  Committee and
4, 000
 Digging pit latrines donors

Sub-Total $24, 000

 Committee and
Contractors
1st July – 31st August 2024  Laying of foundation for planners
5, 000
Main Hall & Dormitories  Contractors and
planners

Sub-Total $5, 000

 Committee,
1st September – 30th  Building of Main Hall &
contractors and
November 2024 Dormitories 10, 000
planners

Sub-Total $10, 000

 Committee,
1st December – 31st  Construction of multi
planners and 10, 000
January 2025 sports court
contractors

Sub-Total $10, 000

 Plastering of the 2  Committee,

1st Feb – 31st March 2025
dormitories and the planners and 3, 000
main hall and fitting contractors

Sub-Total $3, 000

 Committee,
1st April – 31st May 2025  Construction of
planners and 3, 000
children’s play ground
contractors

Sub-Total $3, 000

 Committee,
1st JUNE – 31st JULY  Children’s Library 10, 000
planners and
2025  Computer Lab 15, 000
contractors

Sub-Total $25, 000

  Purchase of beds,
1st AUGEST – 31st  Management
mattresses, blankets 8, 000
SEPTEMBER 2025 committee
and chairs

Sub-Total 8, 000

GRAND TOTAL $88, 000

9.MONITORING & EVALUATION

The Management should be responsible for the administrative affairs of the project. Project staff will
regularly monitor the project. The chief functionary of the organization will also assess the progress of
the project through periodic review meetings with the project staff. Besides, the chief functionary of the
organization will conduct periodic evaluations of the various parameters assessing the progress of the
project in terms of various qualitative as well as quantitative indicators. The impact of the project will
have resulted in terms of increase in enrollment and an improvement in the infrastructure status of the
center. It will provide an in-process evaluation of the project that can again be used as learning and
incorporated into the ongoing project process. The monitoring arrangement and reporting formats should
include quantitative and qualitative information on the center.

In addition, external evaluation shall be conducted by donors if deemed necessary including Conduct
regular community feedback sessions and the management committee shall submit quarterly audited
financial reports to the donors.

10. SUSTAINABILITY
a) The subsidized funds from other projects shall be initiated to support the community center.
b) Monthly and one-time donations from different donors will continue to support the project.
c) Materials and products made from entrepreneurial classes will be sold to generate more funds.

Thank You All!

APPENDIX 01 – PROPOSED ARCHITECTURAL IMPRESSION

APPENDIX 02: PROPOSED PLAN