› Home › About Self Help › Contact Us › Current Projects Burkina Faso Ethiopia Eritrea Ghana Kenya Malawi Togo Uganda Zambia › Activities in Ireland › Activities in UK Events Calendar › Technologies › Case Studies › History 20 Year Highlights › How You Can Help What Your Money is Doing Regular Giving Fund-Raising Suggestions One Click Donation Corporate Seed Fund Farmers Grow Fund Volunteering Tax Relief on Donations › Fund-Raising Field Visits 2007 Kenya 2006 Eritrea 2005 -Kenya-Uganda-Malawi 2001-2004 From the Archives › Africa Alive Schools Programme Recent School News School Visits Curriculum Publications Student & Teacher Impressions Pictures Download Young Scientists Exhibition School Profiles (coming soon) › Exhibitions Africa Framed Value of Rubbish › Testimonials › Media Centre Press Releases Articles on Self Help Activities Related Topics › Reports / Studies › Useful Links › Glossary of Terms › Secure Page › Recruitment › Forum Clothing - Ethiopia           Case Studies › Clothing (Ethiopia)        Enkelish Regassa used to sew on the streets of Butajera – making and repairing clothing on the spot on her singer sewing machine in the rank of textile workers who ply their trade in this matter in the town’s busy marketplace. But in 2006 she began to rent her own premises, and with loans provided by her local Self Help savings and credit co-op established ‘Johannas Textile Shop’, named after one of her children. Having trained as a dress-maker after leaving school, Enkelish Regassa works in the business with her husband and two other staff. They make dresses, suits and childrens clothing to order, and also carries a stock of ready made garments that she buys in the markets of Addis Ababa. The mother of five young children, Enkelish says that they have been able to afford to send all of their older children to school thanks to the profits being generated by the business. ‘But if I hadn’t been able to get my original loan from the SACCO this could not have happened’, she says. ‘I would still be on the street, trying to pick up whatever passing trade that I could’.          Related Topics          Ethiopia          ›› Ethiopia Home Page ›› Ethiopia News                   Case Studies          ›› More Info                                        Self Help Africa is a limited liability company. Company number: 105601 Charity No. 6663 (Ireland) The organisation has offices in Ireland at: Annefield House, Dublin Road, Portlaoise, Co. Laois Tel: 00 353 (0)57 8694034 - Fax: 00 353 (0)57 8694038, and in the United Kingdom at : Second Floor Suite, Westgate House, Dickens Court, Off Hills Lane, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY1 1QU. Tel : 0044-(0)1743 277170        We welcome your comments: info@selfhelpafrica.com        Powered by: go2web