Description: Helping People Help Themselves
Donate Our Work About Contact Us Donate Our Work About Contact Us Our mission is to help indigenous peoples build resilience and adapt to their changing world with the vision of ending chronic poverty and dependence. Donate Our work now focuses on orphaned and abandoned children we have cared for since 2011, providing them a change for a healthy life. While helping individual children is significant and meaningful, our long-term goal is to educate and empower them to become future leaders of their people.
Tribal Traditions equate large families with wealth. In the past more children meant more people able to work. The reality the tribes face today is that frequent births mean unhealthy mothers and underfed and unhealthy children.
Our Work GTLI works in the horn of Africa, in the South Omo Zone of Ethiopia. The more than 700,000 pastoralists who live there have traditionally followed their livestock in search of grazing grounds. Today climate change and socioeconomic forces have dramatically reduced the lands available to them and altered their way of life. The South Omo Zone is in the southwest corner of Ethiopia, where the Omo River runs through Africa's Great Rift Valley.