UN Sustainable Development Goals

The Sher Fairtrade Premium Committee recently decided to construct 16 apartment for impoverished families in Ziway. This will ensure a healthy living environment for these community members by providing them with decent housing and clean sanitary facilities that they previously lacked.

All 1,200 kindergarten students at Sher schools receive a hot meal, free of charge, every morning.

Our hospital serves over 100,000 patients each year. Sher employees and students receive free healthcare, while members of the local community only have to pay low hospital fees. 75 health professionals and 90 supporting staff have a huge impact on the wellbeing of the region every day.

Sher Ethiopia provides education to over 6,500 children at three locations. Kindergarten, elementary school and secondary school are free of charge for the children of employees and for other community members. In Koka Sher Ethiopia has helped to construct and manage a local public school.

We offer various programs on gender, women empowerment and inclusion, helping thousands of women and young girls.

Over the last few years we have provided clean drinking water for hundreds of families in the countryside near Ziway. In Bochessa and Worja Washgula, we extended the drinking water pipes at several locations and built tap points at various sites.

For more than 15 years Sher Ethiopia is the largest contributor to the horticultural sector in Ethiopia, providing close to 4% of all forex flowing in to Ethiopia.

3 horticultural farms produce over 1 billion sustainable roses every year.

At Sher Ethiopia we employ workers from 36 different districts and we are proud to offer various programmes and training courses to our staff and community members that demonstrate our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce

We keep our areas clean and safe. We provide and plant trees. We educate local farmers. We provide access to potable water.

Sustainable production: through IPM, Wetlands and drip line irrigation. Sustainable consumption through Fairtrade.

We measure the scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions and acquire carbon credits that contribute to offsetting and reduction projects of the Carbon Neutral Now Initiative of the United Nations.

Sher Ethiopia uses a unique closed loop system for water recycling, which has been specially developed to filter and reuse water. The so-called wetlands purify all wastewater. After purification, the water is reused to irrigate rose plants.

To help restore woodland cover and promote rainwater infiltration we have planted 800,000 seedlings in the upper catchment of Lake Ziway over the past years. Wildlife is now returning to this area.

In our efforts for sustainable development we join forces with several partners, for instance the Floriculture Sustainable Initiative, IDH, local, regional and federal government bodies, the Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia and Ethiopian Airlines.