Our work · Our long-term vision

Two places we’re working to build.

Our long-term vision has two parts: a hospital for women, which goes back to where this foundation began, and a community where young people can live, learn and earn.

Planned · Our core project

Women’s Health and Wellness Center

A hospital for women in rural Ethiopia, caring for women and girls from birth onward. It stands on its own, separate from Youth Island, and goes back to where this foundation began: women’s health.

What it would include

Outpatient clinic and inpatient care
Labor and delivery
Surgery
Fertility care
A women’s education center
Advocacy and social work
A safe house for women escaping violence

The vision

A thriving community where women lead healthy, empowered, and self-reliant lives.

The mission

To provide holistic wellness services—healthcare, education, and economic opportunities—to women and girls in Ethiopia, fostering gender equality and sustainable development.

Our health work today →

Concept illustration of a three-story women’s hospital inside a walled compound in the Ethiopian highlands — Concept illustration. Location and design to be decided; not an existing facility.

Youth Island

City of Refuge

Youth Island is our long-term vision for a self-sustaining community in Ethiopia where vulnerable young people can find a safe home, an education, healthcare, and a way to earn a living.

Concept illustration of a hillside campus in the Ethiopian highlands: homes, a school, a clinic, a skills workshop with sewing machines and timber, a water tower, vegetable gardens and a chicken coop around a shade tree — Concept illustration. Location and design to be decided.

How it brings the pillars together

Today we do this work in many places. Tomorrow, in one.

Right now each program happens separately: kits in one school, supplies to one hospital, training somewhere else. A single campus lets a young woman who comes for school also get care, learn a trade, and have a safe place to live, all in one place, run by the community itself.

Education Brings hope Classrooms, tutoring, and a sewing room where students make their own reusable pads. Read more → Health Brings dignity A community clinic for everyone, with essential care, prevention, and hygiene education from an early age. Read more → Thriving Communities Brings opportunity Workshops for tailoring and carpentry, farm plots and poultry, and small-business training that pays for the campus over time. Read more →

A safe home Housing for young people aging out of orphanages or living on the streets, so they can heal before they build.

Where it stands

In development, led on the ground by Cornerstone.

Youth Island in Ethiopia is inspired by Impact Ministries International. The location is still being chosen. Cornerstone, our team in Addis Ababa, will build and run it; YetmAyehu raises the support here.

Visit Cornerstone Ethiopia →

How you can help

1Donate to the vision fund, once or monthly.
2Fund a building, a workshop, or the land. Email us to talk about a larger gift.
3Lend your skills: architects, builders, farmers, nurses and teachers.

Email us →

Thank you

Help build what comes next.

Gifts made here go to the long-term vision, the Women’s Health and Wellness Center and Youth Island: land, buildings and the programs that will run inside them.

Every gift, large or small, restores hope, dignity and opportunity.

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