Top 3 ways you can help right now
Urgent call: Long-term recovery
Caught between extremes, the people of Afar are grappling with a series of droughts, floods, conflict, earthquakes, malnutrition and disease that pushes them deeper into poverty. We need your kind help urgently so these people can recover and rebuild.
Help end fistula
Fistula has been described as the moral challenge of our generation. Both preventable AND curable, 9,000 women in rural Ethiopia still experience it every year. Find out how your gift today can stop their needless suffering and help end fistula for good.
40 years later - the famine of 1984
This 40 year anniversary serves as a sombre reminder that the fight against famine and poverty is far from over, and that we can all be active participants in the journey towards justice, development, and human rights in Ethiopia.
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You can help some of the most vulnerable people on Earth
We’ve teamed up with local, grassroots organisations, run by Ethiopians for Ethiopians. Every time you donate, you directly help local people, programs and communities. Together, this is how we can make a lasting difference in the lives of the most vulnerable.
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Forced mutilation & marriage
Through education, you can help put an end to dangerous female genital mutilation and child marriage for good.
Child exploitation & homelessness
Help equip orphaned and vulnerable children for a safer, brighter future free from hunger, disease and exploitation.
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Obstetric fistula
By improving maternal health services, you can help make childbirth safer and eliminate obstetric fistula.
Women & girls' empowerment
By opening up equal opportunities, you can empower women to reach their full potential and be part of change.
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Hospice & palliative care
With end-of-life care, you can help those who are destitute and terminally ill live out their lives with peace and dignity.
Emergency relief & recovery
When faced with natural disaster and conflict, you can provide relief, and help communities to rebuild and become self-sufficient again.
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Why Ethiopia?
While Ethiopia has made considerable progress since the famine and devastation of the 1980s, the poorest and most marginalised are being left behind. We need your help to break this cycle of poverty and bring back health and hope to those who are most in need.
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Poverty
More than one quarter of the population live below the poverty line
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Subsistence
Highly dependent on agriculture and highly susceptible to drought and climate impact
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Literacy
Almost 50% of the population is illiterate
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Child Mortality
1 in 21 children die before the age of 5
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since Ethiopiaid was founded
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we work across Ethiopia
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Each month you can help to make sure women and children have enough to eat, can go to school and can access good quality healthcare.
Latest News
Obstetric Fistula - Q&A With Dr Ambaye
28 April 2025
In-depth with leading fistula surgeon and founder of our project partner, Hope of Light.
Navigating Uncertainty: Audio Recording
20 March 2025
The impact of the USAID Funding Pause on Ethiopia and Our Partners
Valerie Browning: update on FGM in Afar
12 February 2025
Challenges and progress - the journey towards an Ethiopia free from FGM.
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