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Afar Oasis Foundation

We are dedicated to supporting and protecting the indigenous social framework and rights of the indigenous minority Afar people in Ethiopia. We are a non-profit organization committed to improving the economic, education, and health of the underserved indigenous minority Afar people in Ethiopia.

The Ellalta Foundation DBA Afar Oasis Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization. Gifts are deductible to the full extent allowable under IRS regulations. Afar Oasis’s Tax ID is 92-0476971.

Our Vision

Support and protect the indigenous social framework and rights of the minority Afar people in Ethiopia.

Our Mission

The purpose of the Foundation is to improve the economic, education, and health of the underserved indigenous minority Afar people in Ethiopia at a grassroots level by partnering and supporting the indigenous Afar tribal citizen leaders.

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Witness the harsh reality: Children forced to drink unclean water amidst water scarcity

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Challenges
Challenges Facing the Indigenous Afar People

The indigenous Afar people in Ethiopia are one of the most marginalized minority ethnic groups in Ethiopia. They do not receive the same attention or benefits as other major ethnic majority groups of Ethiopia. The difficulties facing the indigenous Afar people in Ethiopia are summarized below:

  • Scarcity of clean drinking water causing water-borne diseases
  • Short life expectancy
  • High infant and maternal mortality
  • 1 in 5 children die before their 5th birthday
  • One of the most underdeveloped, neglected, and marginalized regions of Ethiopia
  • Basic medicine is scarce
  • For serious treatments or operations, Afars must travel over 430 miles to the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
  • Not a single general hospital in the entire Afar region
  • High illiteracy rate (approximately 80%), given the limited number of public primary schools
  • High youth unemployment
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How We Help!

The Afar Oasis Foundation’s goal is to improve the economic, education, and health of the underserved indigenous minority Afar people in Ethiopia. We believe one of the most effective methods of achieving our purpose is to fund and support the indigenous minority Afar tribal citizen leaders at a grassroots level. These tribal leaders live in these underserved communities and experience the same challenges their tribal citizens face. Afar tribal leaders will be our partners.

By aiding Afar tribal citizen leaders, we can supply them with tools and resources that they can, with their direct knowledge of and influence in their communities, effectively spearhead our goal of improving the life of the minority Afar people. In doing so, we aim to improve the economic, education, and health of the underserved indigenous minority Afar people in Ethiopia.

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Our Activities

The Ellalta Foundation DBA Afar Oasis Foundation provides monthly aid to indigenous Afar tribal citizen leaders to improve the economic, education, and health of their undeserved communities.

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All of our funding and activities are of a charitable nature and include:

  • Providing tribal leaders with funding for emergency food needs for individual Afar minorities and area inhabitants facing starvation and/or food insecurity
  • Supplying tribal leaders with funding for medicine, healthcare, and health-related transportation needs for Afar minorities.
  • Providing tribal leaders with funding for emergency shelter for Afar minorities
  • Assisting tribal leaders with ensuring the animals of the nomadic Afars (which are their livelihood) are in good health by funding vaccinations, vet visits and consultations to Afar areas, and medicine. Funding pregnancy and neo-natal assistance, including, but not limited to, food, clothing, and midwife fees.
  • Providing microloans for Afars to create/improve income.
  • Locating sites to rent in the Afar region to establish small satellite clinics in rural areas. Medical staff volunteers will operate these small satellite clinics.
  • Afar Oasis Foundation will organize and provide transportation funding to and from these small satellite clinics in rural areas. These sites would also serve the community for basic healthcare training.
  • Researching the availability of local Afar and in-country vocational teachers.
  • Locating sites to rent in the Afar region for vocational schools that the teaching staff will manage and operate. Afar Oasis Foundation will provide funding for the vocational schools.