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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 women’s wellness clinic, a skills workshop with sewing machines and timber, a water tower, vegetable gardens and a chicken coop around a shade tree 1Safe homes2School3Women’s clinic4Skills workshop5Farm and poultry
Concept illustration. Location and design to be decided.
  1. 1Safe homes
  2. 2School
  3. 3Women’s Wellness Clinic
  4. 4Skills workshop
  5. 5Farm and poultry
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 women’s wellness clinic for prevention, women's health, 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.
Cornerstone Charity OrganizationWhere 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
  1. 1Donate to the vision fund, once or monthly.
  2. 2Fund a building, a workshop, or the land. Email us to talk about a larger gift.
  3. 3Lend your skills: architects, builders, farmers, nurses and teachers.
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Thank you

Help build Youth Island.

Gifts made here go to the long-term vision: land, buildings and the programs that will run inside them.

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

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Your gift goes to: the long-term vision fund

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Want to fund a specific project, like a school sewing center or a youth skills center? Email us →