Ethiopia
Food for the Hungry began working in Ethiopia in 1974 and responded to the Great Famine of 1984, partnering with communities to improve food security and solutions for clean water.
In 2024, we celebrated with nine communities in the Sasiga Mid-Highlands as their partnership with FH culminated in remarkable achievements toward sustainability.
In 2024, we celebrated with nine communities in the Sasiga Mid-Highlands as their partnership with FH culminated in remarkable achievements toward sustainability.
Community Snapshot
In 2014, FH began a partnership with a new cluster of communities in the Sasiga Mid-Highlands. After years of partnership with FH, the nine communities have made great strides toward sustainability and achieved their goals. They’ve dramatically improved their water access infrastructure, raised the health of families and children, enrolled more girls in school, regenerated dead soil for farming, and are ready to move on from their partnership with FH. Today, we are excited about our new partnership with Leka Dulecha! Through focus groups and interviews, FH staff are becoming familiarized with the community strengths and challenges. Children have also been registered for child sponsorship while FH is connecting them with Canadian sponsors. In 2025, FH will focus on establishing goals and a development plan to guide their journey out of poverty.
Community Goals
Food for the Hungry walks alongside communities and leaders in partner communities to help them overcome their challenges and establish sustainable thriving. Together, they create primary goals to address their biggest obstacles. Their goals are:
Livelihoods
Improve food security and livelihood status of children and families
Improve food security and livelihood status of children and families
Health
Reduce child and maternal morbidity and prevent malnutrition
Reduce child and maternal morbidity and prevent malnutrition
Education
Help children reach their full potential through targeted early childhood interventions
Help children reach their full potential through targeted early childhood interventions
Leadership Development
Reduce impacts of disasters, shocks, and stresses on the communities
Reduce impacts of disasters, shocks, and stresses on the communities
Progress Updates
2024 Celebration
Over the course of 10 years, families and leaders in the Sasiga Mid-Highlands applied their creative energy and worked tirelessly to reach their sustainability goals. As a result, they successfully moved 3,319 people out of extreme poverty!
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How Meaningful Gifts Changed Sena’s Future
Can sheep bring hope in the face of poverty? Can clean water change an entire community’s health? Sena, a young girl from Sasiga, Ethiopia, will tell you, yes!
Child Sponsorship Gives Desta New Hope
Fourteen-year-old Desta has benefited from child sponsorship—from school uniforms and stationary to receiving a goat when he was just eight years old. He has since raised a small flock of goats, which have made a huge difference for his once struggling family.