Mary Joy Aid Through Development (MJATD), established in 1994 as non political, non religious and not profit making, is the legal Ethiopian Non governmental organization. MJATD came into existence by the major role played by Zebider Zewdie -the present executive director.
Mary Joy works in an integrated urban development programs in collaboration with different international NGOs, GO’s and Community Based Organizations to improve the health and living conditions of some of the poorest people in Ethiopia.
Mary Joy works towards empowering children, women, families and other undeserved community groups through integrated development programs which focus on capacity building and encourages the genuine participation of beneficiaries to the effect that target communities become HIV/AIDS competent and their livelihoods improved.
Mary Joy has a decade experience in the area of integrated urban development and has identified three major thematic areas of intervention on which to focus for the next five years (2010-2015).
- Improving Livelihoods
- HIV/AIDS
- Community and Organizational Capacity Building
