Who We Are
PD Ethiopia is a civil society organization registered in the Netherlands to promote Peace, Stability and Development in the Horn of African, in Ethiopia. We work to strengthen community organizations through grants, training and by supporting initiatives that promote human rights and social justice. We provide grants to NGOs and NPOs for promoting peace based on justice, and appreciation for diversity and human unity.
Where We Are
We are an international team committed to working together for peace and development in Ethiopia, for a better future for the people of Ethiopia… We are important together in this epic endeavor; future generations need all the help they can get for greater equality, peace and a better world.
Satellite office – Africa/ Ethiopia
Ethiopia is the 4th Diplomatic capital of the world after Washington DC, New York and London.
The P&D Ethiopia Foundation has ANBI status.
What We Do
We Promote Peace
When we bring people together to discuss their issues, when we find ways to build confidence between different sides of a conflict and when we involve everyone touched by a conflict in the processes to resolve it, peace is possible.
We Support Development Projects
To strengthen local government authorities’ capabilities to deliver services to communities in a responsive and accountable manner, to support economic infrastructure development in participating provinces, and to provide immediate and effective response to an eligible crisis or health emergency.
We Educate
Education is a grassroots non-profit organization that works to empower children and young people in Ethiopia through supporting community-driven initiatives focused on education.
Using alternative sources of power such as Solar and wind power, hydropower, geothermal energy, and plant matter are renewable sources of energy that can be used efficiently to power up workspaces. These alternative sources of energy can come with a big cost of investment, but they are certainly cost-saving in the long run.
We Build Networks
The world around is changing, and as such, so is the way we network. With platforms like social media connecting us to hundreds (if not thousands) of people instantly, our networks are no longer limited by location—you can connect with anyone, anywhere.
We Find & Fund
Thus charity begins at home. In other words, it begins in the near neighbourhoods of a person. One first comes forward to help his neighbours, relatives and friends in the very beginning. Afterwards, he extends his, same helping hand to the distant places, where thousands of the needy and the weak people await his help and sympathy.
We Strengthen
Many donors do not include or discourage adequate line-items covering sustainability. NGOs should be specifically requested to add budget to cover proper office space, quality computers and tools, staff training, staffing, including fundraising staff time, and communications.
Impact Stories
Ethiopia’s youth find hope in agricultural entrepreneurship
27-year-old Amiat Ahmed and her two-year-old son live with Amiat’s parents in the South Wollo Zone of Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Like many other young people in her region, Amiat used to feel that there were limited opportunities to earn income in her village, which led to her decision to migrate to Saudi Arabia.
“I witnessed young people from my village sending money back to their families,” Amiat says of those who inspired her to make a similar move. “I thought I could do the same thing for my parents.”
Unfortunately, Amiat’s plans for her future in the Middle East did not turn out as she had hoped. In order to reach Saudi Arabia, Amiat had to walk for days in the desert without enough food or water, and was mistreated by traffickers along the way. After a difficult and risky journey, she finally arrived in Saudi Arabia, but it was not a warm welcome.
“Nothing was as expected,” says Amiat.
She spent 5 years in Saudi Arabia working as a domestic helper for a local family. Although her reality was different from what she had imagined at home in Ethiopia, Amiat continued her work in order to send money back to her family. In this way, she partly fulfilled her dream: she managed to earn enough money to buy oxen for her father, and also to send her younger brother to university. But before Amiat could earn the money needed to help her family construct a better house, she had to leave Saudi Arabia because of her status as an irregular immigrant.
“My plan was to work for three more years to save money for my family, but I was forced to return,” explains Amiat.
Amid conflict in northern Ethiopia, children share their dreams for the future
After a year since the conflict broke out in Tigray in November 2020 and expanded to neighbouring Afar and Amhara regions, thousands of schools have been damaged or destroyed while many other schools are sheltering IDPs depriving children of their rights to an education.
Overall, it is estimated that close to 3 million boys and girls across Tigray, Afar and Amhara regions have missed out on learning opportunities.
The safe re-opening of schools this year will require both providing temporary school structures (such as tents) and identifying alternative shelters to which IDPs can relocate so boys and girls can go back to school.
Peace for me is going to school, be with friends and playing,” says Asya Ahmed, 11, who is displaced because of the conflict and now staying in Chifra town in Afar region.
“When I hear the gunshots, I was so frightened,” says Asya. “People in the neighbourhood were running away…We walk up to a place called Askuma. Then we spend one day there and the next day, we came to Chifra.” Asay and her family rented a small place in Chifra town. But the young girl misses being with her best friends with whom she plays hopscotch.
Asya is not sure when she will be back home. She also worries about her education if she will enroll in school or not in the new academic year. She would be in grade 4 if all goes well. Yet the conflict changed all that. “I don’t want to miss out on my education. I want to go back to school.”
Asya hopes to become a doctor so that she treats people with illnesses.
