Weragu · mountain area · 2,000 m a.s.l.
A clinic for the Weragu mission
The only health facility for 50,000 people is a clinic built of mud and straw, no longer safe. We are building a new one in masonry.
Our projects
Practical work, from start to handover
Every project starts from a real need, is built with local communities and ends with a handover: once a facility can run on its own, it passes to the people who use it every day.
Ongoing
Alaba · SNNPR · southern Ethiopia
Water for the Alaba school
The Consolata Fathers' school takes in 850 children, but has no drinking water. A collection and purification system will change that.
Alaba · SNNPR · southern Ethiopia
New classrooms for the Alaba school
Enrolment requests grow every year. Three new classrooms will give around 90 more children the chance to study in proper conditions.
Completed and handed over
Projects built and transferred to local communities or authorities: the best measure of our work.
Gambo · 250 km from Addis Ababa · 2,200 m a.s.l.
Supporting the Gambo hospital
For more than twenty years we supported the Gambo hospital: 135 beds and a catchment area of 500,000 people. Today it is part of Ethiopia's health service.
Gambo · 40 hectares · Oromia Region
The Gambo farm
Forty hectares of crops, a cow house and a chicken house that made the hospital self-sufficient in food. Today it is run locally.
Gambo · Oromia Region · Ethiopia
The Gambo school
Primary education, hygiene and health education for the children of the village. Today the school is run entirely by the local community.