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Description of Youth Center

Egna Le Egna Youth Health and Development Organization received land with a building to establish a Youth Center in Shashemene Town in the year 2003. The organization has solicited money from volunteers and international organizations, mainly Pathfinder, and invested into creating a pioneer Youth Center in Ethiopia. The center currently provides indoor and outdoor games, a library, meeting hall service, computer training center, digitized library with internet service, discussion shed, drama and music performance stage, audience green stage, children’s learning area, gym, mini cafeteria, and IGA corner. Within the Youth Center there are sports, music, drama, dance (both modern and traditional), and circus club activities where the youth exercise and develop their talents.

Youth Center Activities

Gymnasium

 A built gym equipped with materials for the youth and the community. A maximum of 30 people visit the gym every day.

Computer Laboratory

A training center with internet service and 20 modern computers. Users have access to electronic materials that support their education and the insight to the world at large. More than 50 users visit the center every day.

Library

 Digitized library with all the necessary materials, equipment, and books for children, youth, and adults. Every day the library is visited by around 60 people.

Playing ground

 The Youth Center’s multi-purpose playing ground includes basketball, ground tennis, and volleyball fields. The ground is painted with different colors to differentiate areas and fenced with wire mesh.

The Children who Break New Ground

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Tailoring corner

 10 low-income girls trained and gained new skills on entrepreneurship and business management with entrepreneurship groups like reusable sanitary pad production.