Hawassa Hope’s efforts in Ethiopia are focused on vulnerable children and their families. Our goal is to keep families together and ensure access to education for their children, and to help families achieve financial independence through vocational training and initial financial support.

We work in Hawassa and the surrounding areas in the Sidama region of Ethiopia to provide for the basic needs of children and families. We currently work in 14 different places going out around 4 hours into different communities. We have built our own  children’s home near Hawassa City that cares for children while local adoptive families are sought.

Depending on where and how a family lives, assistance is tailored to their specific needs and includes food, education, clothing, access to medical support and spiritual support.

Our initiatives  include:

-Community sponsorship
-Support of a children’s home as they look for local foster/ adoptive families for children and reunify when possible.
-Small business grants that funds vulnerable women’s businesses
-Funding clean water projects across the Sidama region
-Providing malaria nets with education and training
-HIV training
-Elsabet Initiative (caring for vulnerable women in pregnancy)
-Mossy Foot training and treatment
-Gifting of cows and goats
-Education through Tesfa Community School 

We are actively looking for businesses and churches to partner with us to support the efforts in and around Hawassa and to help catalyze grass roots business in the area. We would love to come and speak at your organization or church.  If this is something you are interested, please contact us at info@hawassahope.org!

To donate to any of our Hawassa Hope initiatives follow the link below!