Who We Are

Our Vision is to break the cycle of extreme poverty and to offer hope and a brighter future to the most vulnerable children and families living in Korah, Ethiopia.

Our purpose is to keep families together and healthy. We seek to act towards breaking the cycle of poverty through the love and compassion of Christ, so that each person can come to know their inherent worth, meet their full potential, live with dignity, and become self-reliant, bringing long-term sustainable change to the Korah community at large.

Our plan centers on a comprehensive and holistic approach to transformational development, focusing on the most impoverished families and empowering them to grow, generate income, and help their children excel in life and school. We provide essential care that addresses physical health, spiritual needs, psycho-social support, education, and economic stability. Additionally, we engage in special projects that create sustainable change and support for the broader community, such as building a well for over 7,000 children at a local school in Korah.

We are committed to serving and empowering the people of Korah and our desire is to come alongside Ethiopian staff, leaders, the Korah community and local government supporting them in their vision and dreams for their people.

We seek to live out our values of sustainability and cultural competency. To achieve this, HFK dedicates its efforts to an attainable and permanent strategy through our operational agreement with the Ethiopian government, collaboration with our Ethiopian staff and creating local partnerships that further our impact for training, resources, program linkages and experience-sharing connections. All HFK programs in Korah are administered by Ethiopians and we employ more than 40 staff, many of whom live within the Korah community. Our partnership and multifaceted approach have proven to be an effective and powerful advocacy combination that has yielded tangible and ongoing results.

All that we do centers around holistic care and the process of transformational development, which we believe can impact the entire community through respecting the inherent worth of each person being made in God’s image and empowering them physically, psycho-socially, economically, and spiritually.

Loosening the yoke of extreme poverty in Korah, Ethiopia and bringing hope to those who live there. 

"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter – when you see the naked, to clothe them…"  Isaiah 58:6-7 NIV