Our work
Six years of quiet work. Now we're scaling it.
Delivered on the ground in Ethiopia by Cornerstone, funded by friends and family in Minnesota.
From roots to transformation
Driven by purpose, rooted in community.
YetmAyehu Foundation was born from a lived belief: education and healthcare are the surest way to break the cycle of poverty.
For more than six years, Dr. Yetmwork Berhanu and her husband quietly funded this work from their own pockets: medicines and equipment for hospitals and shelters, and reusable pads for schoolgirls, so no girl has to trade her education or her dignity for a basic need.
“When you educate a girl, you educate a family. When you restore health and dignity to a woman, you heal an entire community.”
Moving beyond relief to lasting change
Supplies save lives today. Lasting change needs more. We are moving from emergency aid to programs communities can run themselves, designed with local leaders, across three pillars.
Our pillars
How we restore hope, dignity and opportunity.
Education Brings hope
Keeping girls in school, starting with the pads, supplies and lessons they need.
Read more Health Brings dignity
$30K+ in medicines and equipment for hospitals and care centers, and care for women and children.
Read more Thriving Communities Brings opportunity
Skills and income that let families stand on their own. Next: a youth skills center.
Read moreWhat your gift has done
“When I was a student, my parents forced me to drop out of school in sixth grade.”
“Now, I fight to keep my children in school so they don't have to repeat my story.”
A mother in Kambata Zone From the field · Kambata Zone A film by Cornerstone Ethiopia
No girl should miss school because of her period.
Cornerstone sat down with girls, mothers, and teachers in Kambata to hear what period poverty really costs.
Why Ethiopia
When a girl stays in school, her future changes.
When a woman has healthcare and a way to earn, her family grows stronger. When a community can build its own livelihoods, the next generation has hope.
13M+ children in Ethiopia are out of school, and nearly half of them are girls. Source: UNICEF Ethiopia
That is where lasting change starts: one girl, one family, one community at a time.
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One mission, two countriesWe raise it here. Cornerstone delivers it there.
YetmAyehu Foundation is the U.S. 501(c)(3) that raises money and sources medical supplies. Cornerstone Charity Organization is our team on the ground in Addis Ababa, running every program with local schools, hospitals, and partners.
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Be the reason she stays in school.
You don't have to fly to Ethiopia to change a girl's year. Our team there does the work; your gift makes it possible.
- 1Choose a monthly or one-time gift.
- 2We send it to Cornerstone, our team in Addis Ababa.
- 3Girls stay in school, women get care, and families build a living.
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