Grace Center Foundation

In Ethiopia, thousands of children are living on the streets, simply because they have neither home nor family to care for them. In addition, there are thousands of families living in destitute poverty, unable to provide enough food for their whole family; numerous babies abandoned each year, relatives left with the care of children whose parents have died, and children facing a life of hardship and neglect. Many women are alone with their children escaping abuse, servitude or poverty, lacking the traditional generational family support that has been stripped away by war, drought, famine and disease of the past 50 years.

When a family needs to care for their children in difficult situations, there are very few options outside of Grace Center. Many mothers feel they have no opportunity to raise their children, when they do not have work, training or sufficient food to feed themselves. Therefore, they abandon or relinquish their children in the hope of something better for their child at least. Without Grace Center, a family in need of childcare for any duration has nowhere to turn.

We turn away no one who is truly in need and provide the following programs: day care, foster care, K-4 schooling (soon to be K-12,) after school programs, feeding programs, support for those needing medical care and housing, special needs program, prison kids ministry, women’s empowerment and small business training.

Grace Center fed thousands of civil-war refugees this year, provided medical and housing assistance to those who needed it and rescued over 30 boys who fled their villages to escape terrorists wanting to use them as human shields. We work to reunite these children with their parents or any surviving family members in their villages.

Grace Center receives many abandoned babies and children. We find them on the roadsides, in bus terminals, left at our gate, or at the hospital when a mother disappears after giving birth. The reasons are many that desperate women see no other solution but to abandon their babies or small children.