This short photo documentation on success stories gives you an idea of our fields of interventions and activities. More success stories please find for download below.

Hollow bloc production:

Problems: Construction graduate without job; no start-up capital; no working premise.

Support by BDS facilitator: Municipality provided land; linked to micro-finance and got credit; linked to Selam technical center to buy hollow-bloc machine; entrepreneurship training provided; market link to the municipality for sales of blocs for public toilets; minimising costs by using waste water from the hill.

Impact: Owner got self-employed; 12 workers employed; income is good because of low production costs, good quality and marketing support.

Car wash cooperative:

Problem: 12 unempoyed 12th grade complete students looking for job; no business idea; no start-up capital; no working premises.

Support by BDS facilitator: Support in business idea generation; organising in cooperative; municipality provided premises and cleaned space; linked to micro-finance and got credit; bought some equipment and built premises; opended car wash and shop for oil etc; record keeping provided.

Impact: 12 cooperative members employed with stabilised income

Mini-supermarket:

Problem: Lack of working premises; shortage of working capital; limited market access; no premises.

Support by BDS facilitator: Municipality provided space for shop; linked to micro-finance and got credit; shop constructed by the owner; entrepreneurship training and bookkeeping provided; linked to public events for sales.

Impact: Owner got self-employed; 2 workers employed; income is good because of strategic shop location.

Carpenter workshop in Ambo

5-operating-machine

poor tools

Woodworking

Auto-mechanics Ambo

Metal works Ambo

This is a local made 
welding machine

Tailoring workshop Ambo

Shop with textile stocks

Project planning workshop

Procedure to produce metal chairs with a simple bending machine