Impact That Restores Dignity & Rebuilds Futures

Across Tigray, women, children, and families continue to face the effects of conflict, violence, displacement, poverty, and abandonment.
Your support helps restore safety, hope, belonging, and opportunity — one life at a time.

2024 Impact Highlights

60 - abandoned or separated children received care
10 - children reunified with family
160 - women completed trauma recovery at the Safe House
150 - street-connected children reunified with caregivers
1,717 - children received baby formula or supplementary food
31,653 - people received cash support for food or recovery
565 - women graduated from the business programme

Our Impact at a Glance

20 Years at a Glance: 2006 - 2025

3,953 - Children cared for through Grace Village

446 - Women rehabilitated through Safe House support

420 - Children supported alongside their mothers in Safe House programmes

35,992 - Highly vulnerable children supported through community-based care

10,188 - Tins of life-saving baby formula provided to infants who cannot breastfeed

1,862 - Women empowered through small business training and seed capital

4,922 - Family members indirectly supported through improved livelihoods

Thousands - Reunified with family or supported through psychosocial care, education, and protection

How We Create Change

AO’s impact reflects the strength of our Circle of Change, a holistic model integrating protection, healing, livelihoods, resilience, and community systems.

Impact by Programme Area

1. Transitional Care Services

Safe, temporary, healing environments for children and women in crisis.

Grace Village (Transitional Care for Abandoned Children)

  • 3,953 children received long-term holistic care

  • Hundreds were reunified with their families or placed in domestic adoption

  • 48 young adults completed university or college

  • Medical, emotional, educational, and legal support provided

Transitional Safe House for Women (Protection and trauma recovery for survivors of gender-based violence)

  • 446 women and 420 dependents protected

  • 2,750 counselling sessions delivered

  • 39 babies safely delivered

  • Women received literacy, life skills, and business training

  • 100% received follow-up support after graduation

Transitional Safe House for Children (Rehabilitation and reunification support for street, unaccompanied, or displaced children)

  • 1,344 children admitted

  • 1,337 reunified with family

  • 6,720 counselling sessions conducted

  • Over 981,000 meals served

  • Vocational, life skills, sports, and recreational activities provided

Outcomes include:
Safety restored, trauma reduced, reunification achieved, education resumed, and dignity regained.

2. Community Care Services

Strengthening vulnerable families and rebuilding community wellbeing.

Baby Support Programme

  • 833 vulnerable infants referred

  • 302 babies received full baby-care packages

  • 10,188 tins of formula provided

  • 3,507 baby-care items distributed

  • 1,090 follow-up visits or calls conducted

Child Protection & Education Support

  • 35,992 vulnerable children assisted

  • 13,864 students received school supplies

  • 6,237 children identified for urgent support

  • 737 home visits conducted

  • Nutrition support improved school attendance from 55% → 90–98%

Community Empowerment & Crisis Support

  • Communities trained on GBV, harmful practices, SEA/PSEA, and child protection

  • Cash, food, and non-food aid delivered to families in crisis

  • Maternal health education reached over 6,600 women

  • Special support to minority communities, including the Kunama

  • Strengthening of Community Care Coalitions for local problem-solving

Outcomes include:
Stronger families, safer communities, improved school participation, reduced exploitation, and increased community-led protection.

3. Economic Empowerment (Livelihoods & Recovery)

Supporting women to build independent and sustainable livelihoods.

Programme Outputs (2018–2025)

  • 1,862 women were directly trained

  • 4,922 family members indirectly supported

  • 95% programme success rate

  • Businesses launched in petty trade, food preparation, poultry, vegetables, tailoring, etc.

Why It Works

  • Two-day business training

  • Seed capital provided in-kind

  • One full year of follow-up

  • Linkages to microfinance and savings groups

  • Psychological and parenting support included

Outcomes include:
Women gaining confidence, household food security increasing, and families moving from dependency to stability.

Stories of Transformation

  • “I walk with confidence again.” – Lemlem, 14

    After losing her father and being forced onto the streets, Lemlem entered AO’s Safe House for Children.
    Through counselling, medical care, life skills, sports, and family support, she was reunited with her mother and is back in school.
    She now dreams of becoming a nurse.

  • Hiyab, Age 10 - From Trauma to Triumph

    After surviving sexual violence, Hiyab received trauma counselling, healing activities, and a safe environment at AO’s Safe House for Women (child wing).
    She returned to school with renewed hope and strength.

  • Temesgen - Sixteen Years of Love & Care

    Abandoned as a baby, Temesgen grew up in Grace Village.
    He is now in grade 10, confident, responsible, and thriving, a testament to the power of long-term, compassionate care.

How We Measure Impact

AO uses:

  • Case management and follow-up systems

  • Community-based feedback

  • Tracing, reintegration, and safety assessments

  • Programme monitoring (monthly, quarterly, annual)

  • Multi-year data analysis

  • External coordination with local authorities

Our approach ensures accuracy, accountability, and dignity in reporting.

Download Reports & Data

For partners and donors who require detailed data, please download:

  • Annual Impact Report 2024

  • Annual Impact Report 2025 (Coming Soon)

  • 20-Year Impact Summary (2006–2025)
    Strategic Plan 2026-2030(Coming soon)

  • Theory of Change

Thank You for Transforming Lives

Your support creates safety, dignity, and opportunity where it is needed most.
Together, we are rebuilding hope in Tigray.