Assisting those who are not fit for work
We care for people who cannot work due to health or old age so they can live the rest of their lives with dignity and happiness, and we are working to share this model more widely.
Helping the weak doesn't cause failure, rather it is a ladder for development
Building a better community through empowering women, protecting children's rights, and caring for the elderly.
Our Foundation
Our Foundation
Helping the weak does not cause failure, it is a ladder for development.
These three pillars guide our daily work.
Encouraging women and ensuring equality
Work should be skill-based, not gender-based. We empower women to make decisions at home and beyond, access vocational training and support themselves and their families.
Children grow up with their rights protected
We protect children's right to education with both formal learning and ethics from an early age, aiming for a capable, well-molded generation.
Who we are
Awra Amba Community
Founded in 1972 G.C. through the gathering of farmer members, based on the ideas conceived by Honorary Dr. Zumra Nuru. our community rests on five core principles.
We are dedicated to building a better society by respecting women's equality, protecting children's rights, assisting those unable to work, eliminating bad practices and fostering comprehensive solidarity.
- Women's Equality
- Children's Rights
- Elderly Care
Our core work
Core Programs
Based on the Awra amba Community New Chapter Behavior and Development Building Multipurpose Association's five decades of experience serving humanity.
Elderly Care
Caring for individuals who are not fit for work due to health or old age, enabling them to live out the rest of their lives happily.
Impact: 50+ elders cared for over 30 years
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Women's Empowerment
Empowering women by teaching gender equality and providing vocational training to break free from dependency and poverty.
Impact: 250,000+ women trained in equality
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Children's Education
Ensuring children's right to education is protected, teaching both academic subjects and ethics from an early age.
Impact: 300+ children educated to self-reliance
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Emergency Support
Providing various support to people facing sudden difficulties and natural or man-made disasters.
Impact: 600,000+ Birr in aid delivered
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Conflict Resolution
Developing a culture of conflict resolution through discussion, teaching indigenous conflict resolution experience to other societies.
Impact: 50+ years of peace-building experience
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Environmental Conservation
Working on natural resource conservation to prevent the balance of nature from being disrupted for future generations.
Impact: Successful soil conservation and tree planting
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How we serve
More than five decades of community experience
Since 1972, our work has stayed rooted in the same commitments: care for the vulnerable, equality, education, relief, peace, and the land we share.
Caring for individuals not fit for work due to health or old age, so they live their remaining years happily.
Empowering women through equality education and vocational training so they can work, support their families, and leave dependency and poverty behind.
Ensuring children's right to education, academics and morals together, so the next generation grows capable and principled.
Providing practical support to people hit by sudden hardship.
Spreading a culture of conflict resolution through discussion, sharing our community's indigenous peace practices.
Conserving natural resources so the balance of nature is protected for those who come after us.
Our impact
Stories of transformation
Explore the lives we've touched and the communities we've transformed.
50+ years - Since 1972
Community impact built on compassion and equality
Transforming lives through compassion, equality, and community solidarity since 1972.
By the numbers
Achievements
Supported to reach achievement and self-reliance.
Elderly Center established and managed for happy lives.
In-kind assistance delivered to displaced people.
In women's equality, children's rights, and conflict resolution.
All our work is focused on serving the community and building a better society for all.
Although this work has grown over many years, formal recognition and expanded operation matured over time: long-standing service at the regional level, and since September 2024 G.C., federal registration (No. 7406) so this experience can reach farther nationally.
Vision
To raise a generation defined by kindness, hard work, shared support, and a lasting commitment to doing well for others.
Mission
To enable the creation of a good generation by providing various trainings and supports, thereby instilling a culture of work, ethics/morality, love, and mutual understanding in the generation.
Foundation
Our five core principles
Everything we do rests on these commitments, first articulated when the Awra Amba Community was founded in 1972 G.C.
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Women's equality
Respecting women's equality in rights, voice, and opportunity.
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Children's rights
Respecting children's rights, including education, safety, and dignity.
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Assist the weak
Assisting and caring for people not fit for work due to health or old age, and raising, educating, and enabling orphaned children to succeed.
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Eliminate harmful practices
Eliminating bad speech and practices that harm individuals and the community.
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Comprehensive solidarity
Fostering bundled solidarity by avoiding fragmented loyalties and putting the whole community first.
Support our work
Contact us
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Main Office
Awra Amba -
Branch / Liaison Office
Addis Ababa, around Summit 72 Neighborhood -
Email
awraamba72@gmail.com