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Lem Ethiopia actively promotes sustainable technologies in construction and energy. For example, we developed a biogas system at Bole High School, which converts organic waste into renewable energy. This project not only provides a clean energy source for the school but also serves as a practical demonstration of sustainable technology in action. Through such initiatives, we help communities adopt eco-friendly practices, contributing to environmental conservation and sustainable development.
Conservation and livelihood security
Ethiopian Defense Forces Tree Planting Initiative by Lem Ethiopia Lem Ethiopia, in collaboration with the Ethiopian Defense Forces, has initiated a transformative tree planting program to promote conservation and livelihood security. This initiative addresses critical environmental issues like deforestation and soil erosion by involving military personnel and local communities in large-scale tree planting drives. By increasing forest cover, the program enhances biodiversity, sequesters carbon, and improves local climate conditions. Additionally, it boosts livelihood security by promoting sustainable agriculture and agroforestry, which provide additional sources of income and improve food security. This strategic partnership exemplifies how coordinated efforts can yield significant environmental and economic benefits, fostering a culture of environmental stewardship and community resilience.
Creating Awareness
Empowering Youth: Lem Ethiopia's Summer Service Initiative
The summer voluntary service program initiated by Lem Ethiopia engages both university and high school students in impactful community projects, fostering personal and professional growth while promoting social responsibility. This initiative enables students to apply their academic knowledge in real-world scenarios, with university students focusing on educational support, environmental conservation, healthcare initiatives, and community infrastructure development, while high school students contribute significantly to city sanitation efforts. By participating, students gain invaluable skills, broaden their perspectives, and contribute meaningfully to underprivileged communities, thus nurturing a culture of volunteerism and enhancing their readiness for future leadership roles.
Capacity Building / Awareness Development
Lem Ethiopia believes that changing the attitude, behavior and practices of our people in the area of natural resources management is key to reduce poverty and improve the livelihood security of our people. Because more than 85% of our populationís livelihoods depend on natural resources and the complex socio-economic problems are interlinked to natural resources utilization.
Soil and water conservation
Lem Ethiopia has involved in soil and water conservation almost in all its intervention areas through community and school based tree nursery establishment and plantation in collaboration with target communities and local governments. Since its establishment, Lem Ethiopia has produced more 12 million different species of tree seedlings and more than 5,000 clumps of vetiver grass using community and government tree nursery sites and planted at homestead and communal lands
Urban Waste Management
One of Lem Ethiopiaís concerns in relation to environment is urban pollution caused by improper urban waste management of households, service giving institutions and production processing industries. Accordingly Lem Ethiopia carried out Clean up Addis Project in 1994/95 that incorporate short term, mid-term and long term alternatives strategies and registered significant achievements that helped the city administration to improve urban waste management of the city.
Promotion of Appropriate Technologies
To attain sustainable development in the Ethiopian context Lem Ethiopia believes that the promotion and dissemination of appropriate technologies that boost production, improve the health situation of women and children, reduce the pressure on natural resources/land and enhance efficiency that address livelihood security is critical. Thus, it has been involved in the promotion of mud technology (construction of modern mud-houses, mud-beehives and energy saving mud stoves), promotion of the biogas from human excreta and organic household waste for energy supply for different purposes, promotion of solar modules, etc.
