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Edget Baandnet Children Center (EBCC) is a German non-profit, non-governmental organisation (NGO) operating in Awassa (Ethiopia).

Edget Baandnet is Amharic, one of 80 Ethiopian languages, and means "growth together"

EBCC is a project among children and young people, above all providing HIV/Aids orphans with a home, education, food, clothes and medicine. more...

EBCC was founded in 2006 by the German couple Gundi Brendes-Bernhardt & Jörn Bernhardt, both then living and working in Ethiopia. The President of EBCC is Volker Jochimsen. more...

EBCC assisted the Makibasa Korke Community near Awassa to construct a school for -nowadays- 1,400 village children. 2010 we built 2 additional classrooms. All in all we contributed only 22,000 € for this project. 700 children are still on the waiting list. ... Makibasa extension  project more...

EBCC started a project "Legal Aid for young girls and /or mothers", since 2010 it extends its service also for street children in Awassa.

EBCC 2010: Start of new Street Children project. More... Street Children

EBCC works in close cooperation with other NGOs and has chosen a partner NGO in Awassa: Forum for Human Rights and Development, now registered under the new NGO law as "Center of Concern". more...

Edget Baandnet - Let's grow together!

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