Live Aid | 40 years on
17th June 2025
A special message from our Chair of Trustees With this year marking the 40th anniversary of Live Aid, I am aware that Ethiopia will be
Transforming lives in Ethiopia
Transforming lives in Ethiopia
With the 40th anniversary of Live Aid this year, it is unthinkable that in northern Ethiopia, people continue to experience such tragedy.
As is so often the case in times of crisis, it is women who are most affected. With such limited access to health services, the lives of pregnant women and their babies are at risk.
With your support, our partners are working hard to restore health services across the region, restocking health centres, establishing maternity waiting homes and raising awareness.
This crisis has no Live Aid concert and no swell of support from all over the world. Only cuts to foreign aid. But, together we are making a difference.
Will you help save the lives of mothers and babies today?
At Ethiopiaid, we pride ourselves on providing long-term assistance, listening to the communities we are working closely with.
We have partnered with local Ethiopian organisations for over 35 years. Our local partners are experts in what they do, and know their communities better than anyone. Around 80% of the people we are supporting are women and girls.
Our local partners know the context and solutions; we listen and provide appropriate support. Their long-term projects have a lasting and meaningful impact in their communities.
We don’t just respond to crises as they happen, but continue our support after other emergency agencies withdraw.
Please donate today.
Thank you.
Million is a mother who faced the harsh reality of home birth during the conflict in Tigray, where the lack of medical care has led to to tragic outcomes.
Our partner Wings of Healing are rebuilding maternal health services, providing life-saving care for women like Million.
Watch the video to find out more.
Alem, 20, stayed at the maternity waiting home at the newly restored Edegaberhe Health Centre ahead of the birth of her second child. She shared that the experience could not have been more different from that of her first delivery which occurred during the conflict.
After walking five hours to reach a health facility, she found it abandoned and was forced to give birth outside, without medical support. Complications followed as the placenta was retained. In the panic, her family desperately searched for a local midwife – who arrived just in time. The experience left her traumatised and fearful of future pregnancies.
With such limited health services in her area, Alem was anxious about giving birth again. However, when she learned that the health centre was operational again and new maternity waiting rooms were available for expectant mothers, she was relieved.
Alem described the care as exceptional; “It’s like paradise here. We are receiving amazing care, and we can comfortably sleep and engage in discussion with the other mothers. It feels like home.’’
After several days waiting Alem had a safe delivery and gave birth to a beautiful, healthy boy.
Pictured: Alem, with other women staying at the maternity waiting home.
A special message from our Chair of Trustees With this year marking the 40th anniversary of Live Aid, I am aware that Ethiopia will be
Rebuilding maternal health services Our partner Wings of Healing are working to restore maternal and child health services after the conflict devastated hospitals and health
Health centres destroyed by conflict In the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the healthcare system is struggling to recover from the aftermath of the conflict. Many
Project report: restoring maternal and child health services in Tigray. Across Tigray, the healthcare service is struggling to recover in the aftermath of the conflict.
Restoring maternal and child health services post conflict Our partner Wings of Healing is working to restore health services in the aftermath of conflict in
Health centres destroyed by conflict In the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the healthcare system is struggling to recover from the aftermath of the conflict. Many
We raise funds for local Ethiopian charities to transform lives and achieve lasting change.
Our partners know the context and solutions; we listen and provide appropriate support. Growth and development are tracked in local communities using robust monitoring and evaluation. Partnerships continue as long as there’s a clear need and opportunities to make a lasting impact.
Our vision – an Ethiopia in which every person has access to quality education, healthcare and a life of dignity.
Our mission – breaking the cycle of poverty by enabling the poorest and most vulnerable and their communities to live with dignity, to build resilience and achieve real and sustainable solutions to the challenges they face.
