Madrid | April 29, 2022
The close collaboration between the NGOs Envera and Volunteers for Africa has made possible a new shipment of humanitarian aid to the Ethiopian villages of Chitu and Awaro, located in the town of Ambo. This initiative, with the collaboration of Envera's Solidarity Recycling Center, joins other shipments made jointly in recent years.
120 kilometers from Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, about 2,000 people live with great limitations to access basic services, bordering on absolute poverty and with the indirect impact of a war in the north of the country that has caused the displacement of more than three million people according to the United Nations.
In June 2021, Médecins Sans Frontières aid worker Maria Hernandez was killed last June along with her Ethiopian colleagues Yohannes Halefom Reda and Tedros Gebremariam, victims of an attack in the semi-autonomous region of Tigray, which has been at war since the end of the previous year.
However, the collaboration between the two social entities dates back to the years before the war and the pandemic. Envera, through its Solidarity Recycling Center managed by people with disabilities, donates to Volunteers for Africa large suitcases (which are then used as closets by the local population) with basic necessities such as clothes, toys, school supplies and hygiene products.
The suitcases are collected by the volunteers of the organization coordinated by Javier García Ugarte and in which, since 2010, several Spaniards participate to transport themselves the humanitarian material and basic necessities for the population of the city of Ambo and its surroundings in the center of Ethiopia.
This collaboration is part of the network of alliances with which Envera, while being a finalist organization in the care of people with intellectual disabilities, collaborates to help the most vulnerable both inside and outside Spain in its commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN Agenda 2030.
