Ethiopia (new)
Our work in Ethiopia
Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world, ranked 176 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 left millions of people hungry and more than half of the region’s children of children out of school.
We work with a local partner, Daughters of Charity Tigray, to provide nutritious daily meals to more than 120,000 children across the region every school day.
News and Stories from Ethiopia
When hunger is everywhere, school meals are hope
Mary’s Meals began serving in Beati Akor Primary School many years ago, but a lot has happened since then.
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‘Best school in the district’ faces closure as hunger takes over
Even before the Mary’s Meals team reached the building, the need for our school feeding programme to reach this community was painfully clear.
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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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Many people have died of hunger here. You can see it in the eyes of our children.
During a recent trip to Tigray, our team witnessed the heartbreaking reality faced by the children of Gendet Primary School and for their community.
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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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