This Toolkit documents the strategies of The Positive Change: Children, Communities and Care (PC3) Program – a five-year (2004-2009) integrated and comprehensive program designed to provide care and support to more than half a million orphaned and vulnerable children and their families throughout Ethiopia.
This Toolkit shares the key strategies and tools which were used by concerned and committed Ethiopians to address the needs of vulnerable children in their communities. It is the hope of all who have been involved in The Positive Change: Children, Communities and Care (PC3) Program that the Ethiopian experience will be utilized and applied wherever OVC need support, services and care.
The tools presented herein are tested, family-based, cost-effective and child-centered. They have proven to be effective and have restored hope to half a million Ethiopian children and their families. They would like to see them positively affect the lives of millions more in Ethiopia and around the world.