Send a Cow Ethiopia works to improve the living conditions of the poorest people in the

community. The poor residents of the Bosa Tedefa kebele are divided into 6 SHGs and given
training on a variety of project-related topics, including the production of fruits and vegetables,
shared family businesses and savings, gender and family relationships, the management of
animals, transformative household metrology (THM), value chains and market linkage, etc.
Tadelech Teshome, 27, is married and mother of two girls lives in Loma Bosa district Bosa
Tedefa Kebele. She resides in the Bosa Tedefa Kebele in the Loma Bosa district. She is a part of
the SHG group named Dicha, which was started in March 2018 with the support of Send a Cow
Ethiopia and has 25 members (M = 5 and F = 20). She remarked, "With the help of the initiative,
all of our members received training in the aforementioned tasks, and each member began
putting the knowledge they had learned into practice in their daily lives and gardens.
"Before joining SHG, I was engaged in daily labor work, which I earned was insufficient to feed
my family, and even though we have 0.5 hectares of land that we own, we do not produce any
vegetables on it except for some Enset (false banana plant), and the responsibility to make
decisions in our home is primarily my husband's duty," she said.
She continued, "Thanks to Send a Cow Ethiopia, an immediate transformation occurred in my
life after joining the group. As soon as I started taking part in the program, my garden began to
produce a lot of veggies. The atmosphere at work has drastically shifted. My saving habits have
improved; now I save five birr every week in addition to saving small amounts of coffee and
other products. I now visit my vegetables every day to make additional cash.
Being a part of the SHG gave me the opportunity to openly discuss challenges that we all face
and share experiences. Our family relationships and ability to make decisions both improved.

In her garden, she cultivates a variety of vegetables for both personal consumption and sale,
including tomatoes, cabbage, and beet root. she sold tomatoes and made 2000 Birr, which she
spent on clothes for her kids and for herself. The selling of the beetroot brought in 6,500 birr for
her. For 2,500 Birr, she purchased a sheep. With the remaining birr, she purchased seed to
expand her farm's operations.

And last, she said "The only thing I can say is thank you to Send a Cow. My connections with
my family, the way I work, and how I eat have all radically changed. My families are happy with
their life right now and look forward to a better future."