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 also partner with and support an orphanage in Hawassa City that cares for children while local adoptive families are sought.

Sponsoring families or individuals agree to be hope for the child that they sponsor by praying for them and their family regularly and providing $30 per month to sponsor the child. 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 an orphanage 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
-Gifting of cows and goats
-Gifting of Bibles in local language

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 or text HAWASSA to 41444