Family Hope International

Programs: Family preservation program - our core program prevents orphans by embracing, equipping and empowering socially and economically vulnerable families. Ethiopian families served in this program are first embraced into their local christian community to meet their social and spiritual needs. The next stage is to equip families to meet their basic physical needs through financial sponsorship. This monthly allocation of support includes food staples, clean water, medical care, household items and school fees/supplies for school age children. Once the family is stable, business managers mentor the mothers/fathers to develop a business plan to launch a small business enterprise in their communities. Once the business plan is approved, we provide the funding necessary to launch the income generating activity. The loan is repaid monthly by the family over a period of 24 months, at which time the family graduates from the family preservation program, successfully able to meet their family's need independently. Our family preservation program served 315 families that included 1,154 total individuals during this reporting period. The program is deployed in 7 geographic project areas in ethiopia: bole bolbula, meseret kristos, and korah project areas are near the capital city of addis ababa; shashemene, aje and gutummuma project areas are in the southern region; and the dembidollo project area is in the western region. These regions were selected due to the concentration of extreme poverty as well as access to markets for small business starts.

all others - the evangelism and orphan adoption programs ceased at 12/31/16. These two programs split off into a new nonprofit called newlife ethiopia.