Team Ukro
On May 10, the Frontline Community Church community will be participating in the Amway River Bank Run in downtown Grand Rapids to raise support for the Market Center at Ukro CarePoint in Ethiopia. Please join us in supporting Team Ukro!
About the Partnership
Frontline Community Church has partnered with Children’s HopeChest in the area of Ukro in Ethiopia since February 2015. Ukro CarePoint is located in Hawassa, 170 miles south of Ethiopia’s capital city, Addis Ababa.
The CarePoint is situated in one of the most impoverished areas of the city. Both a high percentage of unemployment and traditional worship practices contribute to the lack of interest in education. Many who are employed make less than one dollar a day. Consequently, children are kept from school and sent to work to bring home a meager income to supplement their family’s needs. In this densely populated area, HIV/AIDS has dramatically impacted the community. Both the lack of sanitation and poor hygiene has created an ongoing crisis of sickness and disease.
Yet despite these hurdles, Ukro CarePoint serves as a drop-in center, a safe place where children in the community can come to receive discipleship and care. With the partnership of Frontline Community Church, the children at Ukro CarePoint have the opportunity to grow physically, spiritually, and emotionally while the Frontline Community Church community also experiences positive transformation!
Team Members
About the Project
As the partnership moves towards graduation and self-reliance, the Ukro Marketplace is a gamechanger for their community to thrive. Family empowerment is fundamental for sustainability. The overall goal of Ukro CarePoint is to bring long-term economic sustainability and social development of the target groups. Children, their families, and community at large are the three target groups the project intended to bring development. To bring long term development to orphaned and vulnerable children, the project to be implemented create alternative childcare and economic empowerment of the families.
