Abiy Ahmed (and his contemporaries) took it a step forward and changed it not only teach the recipient on how to help him/herself, but change the mindset of the recipient and the society altogether.
This section of the society was unfairly treated at the societal level, dehumanized, looked upon down, treated as a second class humans and it doesn't matter unless you make the person that he/she too is in the same class of humans.
Don't degrade your fellow humans, they told the Ethiopians.
Now these young and disadvantaged women are made to be aware of their full citizenship rights. No more second class humans.