Ethiopia

Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Africa, after Nigeria, with more than 110 million inhabitants and an area of more than one million km2. With a low HDI of 0.448, Ethiopia ranks 173rd and remains one of the poorest countries in the world. It has a predominantly agricultural economy, weakened by droughts, food shortages and political conflicts, but is now moving towards an industrial and export economy. Since the 2000s, its GDP growth has been one of the highest in the world at around 10% per year (10.9% in 2017). This has enabled a large proportion of the population to escape extreme poverty, from 55.5% of the population in 1999 to 26.7% in 2016. In 2007, following a trip to Ethiopia by HSH Prince Albert II, the Debreberhan and Omorate projects were born, supervised by the Sisters of Divine Providence. MAP financed the construction of the “Princess Grace” nursery and primary school for 200 children, a refectory and kitchen for the Debreberhan school, and the drilling of a well in Omorate. In 2009, in Omorate, with support from the Monegasque Directorate for International Cooperation and UNOCHA, MAP completed a subsurface dam upstream from Lake Turkana. Since 2007, MAP’s assistance and presence has continued with support to the nutrition department of the Mendida clinic, the construction of classrooms in Aleltu and the funding of the Trampled Rose programme since 2014 to prevent early marriages and provide education for 130 girls.