Keep Hope Alive

Together, We Can Provide Dignity and Hope. Aberu Needs Your Help.

Women like Aberu Mamo, a 35-year-old mother of two from Ethiopia’s northern highlands of Tigray, are beacons of light for their families and the cornerstones of our communities across the globe. 

Aberu is a small-scale farmer and head of her village’s savings and loan committee – a group of her fellow villagers, who pool their savings together and use the extra money to provide loans, grow their small businesses and send their children to school. 

Community resilience grants and training programs have helped villages like Aberu's become more resilient to recurring drought and break the cycle of famine and crisis – significantly reducing the need for emergency food aid. 

Photo: Thomas Cristofoletti.

Through the Keep Hope Alive initiative, we train farmers like Aberu how to diversify their income sources, leverage small loans, and increase savings to help their families thrive so that they no longer need to rely on humanitarian aid or government safety net programs to survive. 

"If severe drought happens here, I can withdraw from my savings and manage to take care of my children and other family members," Aberu says.

Aberu meets with a village elder to discuss how their community in south Tigray, Ethiopia has strengthened resilience from the time of severe famine in the 1980s, to a more stable and food-secure community with support from donors and collaboration with the local community. Photo: Thomas Cristofoletti.

Over the past five years, these programs empowered hundreds of thousands of women like Aberu to lift their families out of poverty and build a brighter and more prosperous future for themselves.

Today, with devastating cuts to foreign assistance funding from the United States government and other donors, Aberu and women and families across Ethiopia – and countries around the world – face a critical threat of backsliding back into poverty.

This is why we need your help more than ever. 

For the price of a cup of coffee, you can help women like Aberu lift themselves out of poverty and provide a brighter future for their families. And the cost of equipping people with the tools to survive and thrive amounts to pennies on the dollar compared to waiting for a crisis to happen and responding with emergency aid. 

This is why we cannot afford to wait. Each day, a child misses a meal, a family misses a payment, and a woman like Aberu misses an opportunity to transform their life.

Join us today! Together, we can restore dignity and hope.

Learn how you can make a difference and build a brighter world with the Keep Hope Alive initiative.