Busajo NGO ETS, founded in 2009, is a non-religious organization and does not have a political faction, it is independent, and has its own deontological and ethical code governing all activities and initiatives.

It concentrates its interventions in non-welfare projects, which tend to make the recipients permanently autonomous and self-sufficient.

It pays particular attention to the younger generations, directing resources towards education and vocational training in favor of street children in the city of Soddo in Ethiopia.

Busajo NGO concentrates its interventions in Ethiopia in the Wolayta region, which has about 5.83 million inhabitants. According to the human development index (ISU), Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world, it ias in 173rd place out of 189 countries and life expectancy stops at the threshold of 63 years.

Our projects are developed in Soddo – which has about 200,000 inhabitants and is located 330 km south of Addis Ababa – and in the surrounding rural areas. The population lives on sheep farming, agriculture and commerce, however in recent years the Ethiopian government has invested in new infrastructure: roads, airports, government offices and schools built in almost the entire region.

The rapid phenomenon of urbanization, building expansion and demographic growth has caused a sudden raise in the number of street children, who flee from rural villages to the city in search of better living conditions and increase petty crime and child prostitution. Today there are about 3,000 street children in the city of Soddo alone.

The development and expansion of the city of Soddo has greatly increased the number of street children – girls and boys – and the phenomena of petty crime, exploitation, school dropout and child prostitution are assuming increasingly alarming dimensions.
Busajo Campus is a project aimed at these minors, but it also reserves space for the recovery and professional training of older girls and boys, who are not included in the few existing programs addressed to the youngest in the country.
Our intervention was welcomed with enthusiasm by the local authorities, who guaranteed their support and assigned us a land of about 35,000 square meters on which we built Busajo Campus, where about 80 boys and girls reside on rotation.

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