A year ago, the Enhance Worldwide team was anxiously awaiting the launch of our programs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A year later, we're toasting with tej, Ethiopian honey wine, to the girls and young women navigating a way out of poverty through our educational programs.

1. ENHANCE WORLDWIDE
Q1 Newsletter | January 2016
MOVING FORWARD & ONWARD!
A year ago, the Enhance Worldwide team was anxiously awaiting the launch of
our program and happily
dreaming of where we might
be today. A year later, we’re
toasting with tej, Ethiopian
honey wine, to the girls and
young women in our
program who are navigating
the way out of poverty through
education.
A year ago, many of these girls
and young women had
sacrificed school books for
the bundles of firewood that
they collected and then hauled
down the Entoto Mountain to
sell at the market. Today, they
spend their days in a
classroom, knowing that their basic needs are met so they can learn freely
and fully.
A year ago, we never imagined the
extent of the financial, material,
social, and emotional support
our new organization would receive.
Since Enhance Worldwide’s
inception, we have been operating
completely in the black. We have
surpassed all of our fundraising,
organizational and
programmatic goals. We have
created rich partnerships and
solid relationships among our
participants and their mentors.
As our supporters raise the bar, we
climb to new heights. The sky is the
limit and Enhance Worldwide has
truly been skimming the clouds. It’s a new year, a new opportunity to move
forward and onward toward a more just world where every individual has agency, autonomy and aspirations.
Thank you and Happy New Year from the Enhance Worldwide team! 
OVER 150 DIRECT
BENEFICIARIES!
Thanks to generous donor
support, our programs –
Kinship Care, Rising
Autonomy, and Pathways
Project – and activities have
directly benefited over 150
children and young adults
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Enhance Worldwide
envisions communities where
girls and women have the
skills to lead meaningful,
dignified lives and where each
individual has agency,
autonomy and aspirations.
www.enhanceworldwide.org
 SUPPORT ENHANCE WORLDWIDE
www.enhanceworldwide.org/donate

2. 2 | P a g e
ENHANCE IN ACTION
This September, Executive Director Dr. Ashley Lackovich-Van Gorp, had the opportunity to visit Enhance
Worldwide’s programs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Here’s an excerpt from her project report.
It was an amazing visit. Several of the girls in our program
gave me a tour of their community. I even got to see the school
that many of our participants attend! At the end of a busy
afternoon, I had coffee and popcorn in the home of Biruktawit,
one of the young women in our program. I was honored to
meet her family and so moved by our conversation on the
challenges she faces, as well as her future aspirations.
I am so impressed by Enhance Worldwide’s work – work that
is happening because of your donation. I’m not impressed
because we are implementing grand and glorious projects; I’m
impressed because we are not. Our program is simple and
sustainable. It’s simple because of our focus on education.
It’s sustainable because no one can ever take
education, or its power, away from these girls and
young women once they have it.
When I visited these girls and told them about our
donors, they put their hands on their hearts and
said, “amasegenalu,” which means thank you in
Amharic. Yes, thank you. Thank you so much for
supporting girls in Ethiopia.
To read Ashley’s complete program report, visit our
GlobalGiving page:
www.globalgiving.org/projects/send-girls-to-
school-in-ethiopia
“Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of
justice. Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It
is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the
actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation
to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your
greatness blossom.”
Nelson Mandela
 CONNECT WITH ENHANCE WORLDWIDE
Twitter: @EnhanceWW | Facebook: EnhanceWorldwide

3. 3 | P a g e
BREAKING THE CYCLE OF POVERTY, VIOLENCE, AND INEQUALITY
For $25 a month, we can enhance a girl’s life. For $60, we can send a young woman to university.
Your participation and financial support provide girls, young
women and their communities with the tools and strategies to
navigate pathways out of poverty. Right now we are recruiting
sponsors for Kinship Care, a program that keeps orphaned
girls off of the streets by enabling them to live with relatives and
attend school or university in their home communities in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia. Expanding learning into the community, we
facilitate community conversations on topics that impact the
wellbeing of the girls and young women we serve, such as
HIV/AIDS and reproductive health, child marriage and gender
based violence. Thanks to Days for Girls, all adolescent girls in
our program started receiving sanitary pad kits in January 2015.
Enhance Worldwide is growing, and you can help. Our Rising
Autonomy program supports young women from impoverished households in the early years of their independence. The
program is based on the fact that privilege emerges from privilege whereas social mobility is increasingly rare. Girls from
privileged backgrounds are supported until independence. In order to ensure that girls from underprivileged backgrounds
can gain independence, we support them in the same way
until they are living independently. This might mean
helping them lease their first apartment, understand their
bank statements or reflect on
their personal relationships.
While many organizations stop
support upon high school
graduation, we recognize the
vulnerability of young adults
and are establishing this
program to create a tangible
pathway to independence. Any contribution toward Rising
Autonomy will help create this pathway.
Because our administrator is a volunteer and we work
within the existing social system, our program funds go directly to those navigating poverty and inequality. Let’s send
girls to school! To sponsor a girl’s education, visit www.enhanceworldwide.org/sponsorship 
“If you educate a man, you educate an individual; but if you
educate a woman, you educate a nation.”
African proverb
 CONTACT ENHANCE WORLDWIDE
E-mail: enhanceworldwide@gmail.com
Website: www.enhanceworldwide.org/contact-us
U.S. Address: 215 Whitehall Drive | Yellow Springs, OH 45387
U.S. Phone: 937.708.0144

4. 4 | P a g e
NEW PARTNERSHIPS
2015 was a year of unprecedented growth and success for
Enhance Worldwide: completing incorporation, obtaining
501(c)(3) status as a tax-exempt organization, developing and
implementing our first community-based programs in
Ethiopia, sponsoring a life skills event for 100 school children,
providing sanitary pad kits and education, becoming a member
organization of Girls Not Brides, and establishing dynamic
partnerships with Not Too Late and Days for Girls.
Enhance Worldwide’s three programs – Kinship Care,
Rising Autonomy and Pathways Project – actively
challenge the threats of child marriage, institutional care
(orphanage), street violence, heightened risk for HIV, and
trafficking in the Entoto area of Addis Ababa. And January
2016 marks the one year anniversary of Enhance
Worldwide being operational – naturally, we’re celebrating
with a holiday party and life skills event for the girls and young
women in our programs!
In June, our Board of Directors committed to long-term and
strategic fundraising to support and amplify Enhance
Worldwide’s capacity and impact. Enhance Worldwide has
since secured a permanent partnership with GlobalGiving
and, as of January 2016, established a partnership with
Kapadia Education Foundation to expand our program
offerings, program reach, and the number of constituents served in the Entoto area of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
We can’t wait to see the exciting work Enhance will do in 2016! 
“When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.”
Ethiopian proverb
COMMITTED ADVOCATES FOR CHANGE
Learn more about Enhance Worldwide’s passionate and fearless Board of Directors, working for communities where
girls and women have the skills to lead meaningful, dignified lives and where each individual has agency, autonomy and
aspirations: www.enhanceworldwide.org/about-us. 
BOARDOF
DIRECTORS
Ashley
Lackovich-
Van Gorp
Founding
Executive
Director
Heather
Mahardy
Founding
President
Amare Siraw
Yihun
Founding Vice
President
Brian
Hayden
Founding
Secretary and
Treasurer
Tsion
Asmare
Founding
Member
Roxanne
Swogger
Founding
Member