We are an Ethiopian non-government organization that supports good causes and positive change.

Our Mission

To contribute in producing educated, healthy, productive, competent and empowered community.

Our Vision

To be a national non profit organisation that can serve based on the need of the community.

Our Values

  • Volunteerism
  • Commitment
  • Courage
  • Collaboration
  • Caring
  • Inclusiveness
  • Impartiality

Our Values

  • Equality
  • Humanity
  • Integrity
  • Compassion
  • Respect
  • Creativity
  • Engaging

Our organization has been present for over 5 years.We make the best for all our beneficiaries

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What We Do

Quality Education

Establishement of two public libraries (Bonaya Laga and Hambiso Town) more than 600 books and more than 1900 times reading.

Social Activities

Oil support for families with low income during holidays, lunch offer during holidays for street children Empowerment of women.

Healthy Life and awareness creation.

Deployment of volunteers during different campaign such as vaccination. awareness creating regarding different disease.

Economic Empowerment &
Green initiatives

Distribution of plants to ensure food security, job creation for two females, planting different types of plants.

Traffic accident reduction &
and related

We work with stakeholders, including the community, to reduce and cope with the health, social and economic problems caused by traffic accidents.

About the Founder of Mulugeta Assefa Memorial (MAM) Foundation

Mr. Zewdu Assefa was born in May 1992 GC to Mr. Assefa  Edea Gure and Mrs. Jamanesh Dabale Ayane. He was born and raised in Bonaya Laga village A/J/Gadam Kebele, Dagam district, North Shawaa Zone of Oromia Region.
His father attended school up to grade 8 and taught his son alphabet and numbers in Afaan Oromo and English at home. Zewdu was clever and was able to read and write in both languages ​​before he went to school. While tending cattle, he practiced calligraphy and drawing, using pebbles as pens and rocks on the ground as paper and blackboards learning from his father who documents events on rocks. In the evenings, he read to his family the literatures given to him by his uncle, Mr. Misganu Dabale.

Although he asked his father to send him to school, his father was ill and he had plans to help the family with farm work. However, soon as his father improved because of his good attitude for education and his enthusiasm for learning he enrolled his son in Ganda Sheno Primary School, which is more than an hour’s walk from his family home, in November 1999 GC, two months after school started. Zewdu had finished more than one grade at home and had scored 100 marks in all the first semester grades of grade one. The then Director of the School, Mr. Tilahun Ababu, decided to move him to the next grade in consultation with his family. Accordingly, he attended grades 1 and 2 in the same year and studied there until grade seventh. He was the first in his classes and received various awards and was exemplary for the students.

 

He attended grade eighth at Dagam Primary School and joined the Dagam Secondary School with high marks. He attended grade ninth and tenth at Dagam Secondary School and passed the Ethiopian Higher Education Leaving Examination with “’A” in all subjects except Amharic. He has been receiving various awards for his high scores. He attended Fiche Preparatory School in grades 11 and 12 and joined Madda Walabu University College of Health Sciences in 2010 GC in the field of Public Health. He graduated in 2014 GC with very great distinction, a GP of 4 and awarded gold medal for the high score as the college and university.

Among the graduates of that year, he was selected by the Ministry of Health and employed as a public health emergency management officer at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute. Four months after joining Ethiopian Public Health Institute he joined Saint Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College School of Public Health to study Masters of Public Health in Field Epidemiology. In the meantime, despite loss of his brother and socio-economic difficulties following death of his brother, he studied hard and graduated with good marks in 2017 GC.
He has served the Institute and the country as public health emergency management specialist being deployed to all parts of the country travelling in all regions to manage public health emergencies and holding various positions including, head of the early warning and response team as well as director of the Directorate of Public Health Emergency Early Warning and Information Systems Management. He has led cholera outbreaks response, vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks responses, various vector borne disease outbreaks response, Ebola virus outbreak preparedness, El Niño-related and non-El Niño-related severe acute malnutrition, support for people displaced from their homes for various reasons and etc.
He has been leading the COVID-19 pandemic preparedness and response as the Incident and Deputy Incident Manager at the National Public Health Emergency Operation Center for more than 20 months.
He has been representing the Institute and the country in various international workshops and meetings held in different countries. He has also published several studies with his colleagues. He is currently the Director of the Directorate of Public Health Emergency Early Warning and Information System Management at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute.
In 2010 GC, he married Harageweyin Habtamu Asfawu and they have two sons, Tolawak and Kenesa.

About Mulugeta Assefa

Mulugeta Assefa was born in 1984 GC to Mr. Assefa Edea Gure and Mrs. Jamanesh Dabale Ayane. He was born and raised in Bonaya Laga, A/J/Gadaam Kebele, Dagam District, North Shewa Zone of Oromia Region. Mulugeta was the first son of his family and had one brother named Zewdu and two sisters named Fikade and Kebebush. Mulugeta is the son of a farmer and has been helping his family with farming and rearing cattles since early childhood. His father was ill and he worked on farming with his mother from the age of seven. Especially from the age of twelve (12) his father became very ill and although he was old enough to go to school, he was forced to stop going to school and helped his family by farming. When his father recovered slightly from his illness, his father loved education so much that he decided to send his son to school. Mulugeta completed his primary education (grades 1-7) in Anno Dagam Kebele at Ganda Shano Primary School, which is more than an hour’s walk from his family home.

He attended eighth grade at Dagam Primary School and advanced to the next level with good pass marks. He had dropped out of grade 9 for a year to help the family with farming and to study with his brother Zewdu, who was one class behind him. He completed his secondary education (grades 9-10) at Dagam Secondary School, scoring a pass or matriculation marks in the national examination, and attended his eleventh and twelfth grades at Fiche Preparatory School. Mulugeta was a very clever student and received various awards at various times. He graduated from Debre Markos University in 2013 GC with a high mark (GP of 3.4) after a three-year stay with a bachelor’s degree in animal science. After graduating from the university, he supported himself by working in his own business and was employed in the East Cement Factory in Ganda Sheno village.
Mulugeta was passionate about his family and community since childhood. Hence, he was very active in helping or developing his economy, his family and the needy. Hence he was well known, popular and respected in the community, and a very strong, characterful and magical young man. When he bought his own motorcycle for work, he was very caring and drove pedestrians on market days. While living in this state, on August 12, 2016 GC, he died in an accident in his private motorcycle at Ali Doro near the network mountain.

Our Team

Zewdu Assefa

Founder and CEO

Haregeweyin Habtamu

team member

Kebebush Assefa

team member

Assefa Edea

team member

Jamanesh Dabale

team member

Fikade Assefa

team member

Mulugeta Feyisa

team member

Habtamu Asfaw

team member

Girma Habtamu

team member

Zewditu Koru

team member

Abraham Habtamu

team member

Tsion Habtamu

team member

Yosef Habtamu

team member