Ethiopia
Our work in Ethiopia
Mary’s Meals is serving more than 245,000 children in Ethiopia
Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world, ranked 180 out of 193 countries and territories in the Human Development Index (HDI).
In the Tigray region, where we work, major catastrophes have caused unimaginable suffering: most famously, the famine of the mid-1980s; more recently, a brutal two-year conflict and a long-lasting drought that has left millions of people hungry and more than half of the region’s children out of school.
We work with a local partner, Daughters of Charity Tigray, to provide nutritious daily meals to more than 245,000 children in over 475 schools across the region.
News and Stories from Ethiopia
The school that stood strong in a war zone
Resilient in the face of war, the community around Beati Akor Primary School tried to make the impossible possible by continuing to provide a space for learning during one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century.
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“This is not just me, this is not only my village, it is all over Tigray.”
Fitsum could only send one of her children to school, so she chose her daughter, Aradech. In a region on the brink of famine, the arrival of school feeding at her school would be a lifeline not only for the bright young student but also for her siblings.
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Why it’s still worth supporting Tigray
Ethiopia finds itself faced with a humanitarian crisis and predictions of famine, forty years after an estimated 1 million lives were lost to hunger in 1984/85. Why do these people need help again?
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Voices from Tigray: A grandmother’s fight to keep her family alive
Letemariam walks 36km every week to earn money to feed her orphaned grandchildren but it is never enough. With no school meals at his school, grandson Abraha's dream of becoming a teacher hangs by a thread.
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Where We Work
Mary's Meals works in countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Thanks to the generosity of our supporters and the dedication of many thousands of volunteers around the world, we are successfully feeding more than 2.6 million children every school day.
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