The Fregenet Kidan Lehitsanat was established in 2003 to cater after the interests of orphans and children from underprivileged families in
. The NGO is established by Ethiopians in Ethiopia
. The NGO has organic links with other NGOs in different parts of the world. It may draw financial support from organizations established to support education and health care activities for underprivileged children.
The Fregenet Kidan Lehitsanat (FKL) was named after Fregenet Tafesse who had the great ambition to establish an orphanage in Ethiopia
. She had completed her education in
and was setting-up a network of interested individuals and organizations to form a core group for the establishment of the NGO. Soon after her graduation she lost her life in a tragic car accident in July 2003. Immediately after her passing away her friends and family members vowed to continue working along the same path she had set on.
An NGO was established in with the aim of collecting fund and organizing an NGO for the purpose of helping the children of
who have little access to education, basic nutrition, and who have little or no access to proper education. Another line of the same activity was simultaneously being established in
in late 2003. A group of individuals had come together and had discussed the various alternatives of realizing the ambition of Fregenet. They drafted the essential tenets of an NGO operating to help assist children from poor families attain the essential education. They named their organization The Fregenet Kidan Lehitsanat .
The Fregenet Kidan Lehitsanat will be having its head office in
Addis Ababa . It may have different stations in
Addis Ababa establishing various Kindergartens, primary education and post-primary education in due course. The NGO will set-up the necessary facilities for children education as per the standard of the educational authorities in the country. Children's education requires that they should have the basic facilities for educational process and it should also have the necessary playground and accessories.
At the earliest stage, it would be necessary to rent a suitable building facility and equip the classrooms and the offices with the essential items. Trained teachers will have to be employed and the necessary support facilities should be provided.
Children from underprivileged families not only lack access to education but they also are in dire need of nutritional support. Therefore, it would be essential to aim at supporting children materially, socially, medically and psychologically.
