Land Acquired for Children’s Hospital Ethiopia
Our Vision for Ethiopia has officially acquired 64,000 M2 land to house a new children’s hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The new state of the art comprehensive children’s hospital will include a high level medical, various components such as several medical department building blocks, research and educational centers, parking lots, environmentally friendly landscape, and a helipad for patient transport to and from the site. At least 90 per cent of rooms will be single-patient rooms for increased patient privacy and to decrease the threat of infection and allow for more comfort.
“Now that we have a site, we are ready to begin work on the next stages of planning so we can move forward with building a state-of-the-art children’s hospital in Ethiopia. This facility would provide accessible and affordable state of the art healthcare services, with the capacity to train pediatric health care providers from around the country on the continuing advances in pediatric healthcare” said Bereket Habte, the Chairman of Our Vision for Ethiopia organization based in Colorado.
OVFE and Davis Partnership Signed an Agreement
Denver, CO – Our Vision for Ethiopia a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization is pleased to announce that Davis Partnership Architects, P.C has been selected to provide Programming and a Schematic Design to build a children’s hospital in Ethiopia. Under the contract, Davis Partnership Architect will provide a conceptual design and schematic design for a new children’s hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Davis Partnership Architects, P.C. is a professional corporation founded in 1967 as a continuation of a practice started in Denver, Colorado at the turn of the last century. The firm has provided healthcare architectural services, from small clinics to state-of the-art hospitals and specialty facilities, since its inception nearly 50 years ago. Nationally recognized for its expertise, the firm is consistently one of the top design firms, both in size and dollar volume of work.
“We love to be a part of this journey. We feel our nationally award-winning healthcare team will help “Our Vision For Ethiopia” elevate the standard of care Ethiopia deserves.” said Wendi J. Ekborg, AIA, LEED AP Principal, Davis Partnership Architects.
“By working with Davis Partnership Architects, a team with substantial experience in healthcare design, depth of resources and building expertise-we have identified schematic design as crucial in the next stages of building the children’s hospital in Ethiopia. We are looking forward to work with Davis Partnership on this project and assure that we will endeavor to complete this project as efficiently as possible” said Bereket Habte, the Chairman of Our Vision for Ethiopia organization.
Our Vision for Ethiopia Signed Agreement with an Ethiopian Partner Consulting Firm
Our Vision for Ethiopia signed agreement with an Ethiopian Partner Consulting Firm MTT Consulting Architects and Engineers PLC to provide programming and design review services to the level of Schematic Design.
MTT will apply their expertise to all aspects of the project in collaboration with other project participants to produce a state-of-the-art facility. MTT is an Ethiopian based company incorporated with a team of highly experienced professionals devoted to offer the best services to clients in building a better Ethiopia. MTT an Ethiopian based consulting firm was founded in 2014. Although youthful, the company has worked with numerous reputable clients in private and public sectors. MTT is rooting its base in research, quality and sustainably and driven by senior experts have attracted local, regional, and national governmental agencies within just 4 years.
“Our Vision for Ethiopia mission is to provide access to health services to Ethiopian Community through community participation by opening a modern Children’s Hospital. The overall objective is to provide and increase access to health services to more than 45% of the Ethiopian population who are under the age of 18. Partnering with MTT will definitely help us ensuring compliance with the federal and local codes, and regulations at federal, regional and local levels.” said Bereket Habte, Our Vision for Ethiopia Chairman.
WHAT WE DID
Difference Makers
The founders of OVFE have been actively working in Ethiopia to contribute to the construction of better Ethiopia for more than a decade.
Diary of OVFE Board Member
I am back home after training nine EEG techs and establishing three EEG labs in northern Ethiopia. During my project in Ethiopia, there have been highs and lows, but that’s to be expected.
