Our History

Origin of the Organisation

World Vision is an international Christian relief and development organisation founded in 1950 and presently operating in over 100 countries.  World Vision began its first intervention in Ethiopia in 1971 with relief and opened the Ethiopia office in 1975. Relief, rehabilitation and small community development projects dominated the decade that followed.  During the 1984/85 drought, World Vision Ethiopia participated in a massive relief operation that saved the lives of millions of people.

Our Goal

Contributing to the well-being of 3.5 million vulnerable children in the three years national strategy from 2013-2015.

Our Vision

Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness;

Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.

Our Approach

After an intensive relief and rehabilitation programme, the organization developed a new integrated development approach the objective of which was to ensure empowerment and transformational change.  This approach led to the establishment of Area Development Programs (ADPs) in the 1990s that is still being implemented and continuously strengthened today.

Geographic Coverage

At present registered and licensed by Ethiopia’s Charities and Societies Agency, World Vision Ethiopia operates in 67 ADPs, coordinated by eight programme offices in eight regional states and one city administration. These are Amhara, Oromiya, Tigray, SNNPR, Afar, Benshangul Gumuz, Somali and Addis Ababa City Administration. Moreover, World Vision carries out emergency response interventions in South Omo and Borena. It also supports Somali refugees in Dollo Ado and Sudanese refugees in Tongo in the western part of the country.