The mission statement of The Yirgaalem Appeal Trust is “ to reduce the impact of poverty in Ethiopia.”
When the Yirgaalem Appeal trust was inaugurated in May 2005 we pledged to achieve the following;
To give children of the town an education that would have been denied to them.
To take children off the streets of Yirgaalem and give them a childhood.
To work with the local youth centre funding HIV awareness and health and safe sex programmes.
To support existing schools in the area so they could continue their work.
To support remote rural regions who are vulnerable to serious difficulties if their crops fail.
To enable the local community to eventually fund these projects through their own skills and hard work.
In varying degrees the projects have all been achieved but the trust needs funding and support to maintain and expand the work that we are doing in this remote region in Southern Ethiopia.
