Asra Hawariat School, Ethiopia

Asra Hawariat School gives needy and destitute children intellectual stimulation, vocational training, better access to health services, love and security. The main target groups are the most vulnerable children in the age group 5-14 who are exposed to difficult circumstances such as orphans, abandoned street-children and the disabled. Children from single parents within the lowest income group are also included in the programme. Since its establishment over 40 years ago almost 100,000 needy children have benefited from the programme in its various projects.