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Dear John,

Have you ever experienced a situation that has left you feeling emotionally exhausted, traumatised and overwhelmed - yet at the same time sensed that God had led you there for a purpose?

This is what Mark Bouldan and I felt as we walked away from what we had just witnessed at a refugee camp while in Tigray on a project monitoring trip to review the progress of our existing projects on the ground in Ethiopia.

While there, we were asked to visit Seba Kare Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, but we were wholly unprepared for the humanitarian disaster we encountered.

We had initially travelled to visit the Mekelle Sewing Project - established in partnership with the Evangelical Churches Fellowship of Tigray (ECFT). However, Abraham, President of the ECFT, felt compelled to bring our attention to the devastating conditions his team is confronted with daily at the Seba Kare IDP camp.

As Mark and I were guided through the camp, we encountered a level of poverty that words cannot adequately describe. People were dying from starvation and thirst. Overflowing toilets posed serious health risks. Families were sheltering under tarps stretched across fragile wooden frames, crowded into conditions that strip away dignity and hope. What we encountered was not merely hardship, but the slow erosion of life and spirit among people who have already lost everything.

This extreme suffering is the direct result of the civil war that ravaged Tigray between 2020 and 2022.

Families were forced from their homes; livelihoods destroyed, and access to basic services severed.

Many remain displaced because their lands are still occupied by militias fighting the current administration. The crisis has been further intensified by the withdrawal of major international humanitarian aid like Samaritan’s Purse, UNICEF, as a result of the complete withdrawal of USAID. Samaritan’s Purse, UNICEF and numerous other world agencies.

I am writing to you today to tell you about this critical need - and to ask you for help.

Robel, our AE Ethiopia Team Leader, summed it up starkly:

“The situation is extremely dire. The ECF of Tigray is urgently seeking partners and is looking for any way African Enterprise can come alongside them to alleviate the severe conditions facing refugees.”

We met two of the camp’s nominated administrators, Mobukrahan and Giday, once successful businessmen. They spoke of brutal violence from local militias, Eritrean troops, and federal forces that drove them from fertile agricultural lands. They described massacres, gang rape, looting, drone attacks, kidnappings and detentions in Eritrean prisons. Where there had once been mechanised farming, strong infrastructure and full, dignified lines, there now is nothing.

Mobukrahan told us plainly:

“Even though we escaped the war, living here is almost equivalent to death: People are dying daily from disease, lack of sanitation, and lack of food and water.”

When I asked about their most urgent needs, the response was immediate and sobering. These are not long-term aspirations, they are life-saving necessities.

These practical needs are overwhelming, but they are also an opportunity for the love of Christ to be seen and proclaimed.

As we partner with AE Ethiopia and the ECFT to respond to the urgent physical needs of those living in the IDP camps, the door is opened to share the good news of the Gospel.

One of the most impactful responses to the Tigray crisis has been the Women’s Sewing Skills Training Project. This project has proven to be 100% successful and is already restoring lives.

Focused on some of the poorest and most trauma-affected women, this Gospel-centred program equips participants with practical skills and restores purpose, dignity and hope

in Christ.

Projects such as this are not just short-term relief solutions, they are pathways to long-term change.

We are working closely with African Enterprise Ethiopia and the Evangelistic Churches Fellowship of Tigray to expand this model by developing training programs and employment pathways for men, youth and wider communities.

Together with local churches, we are building long-term, sustainable initiatives that restore dignity, create opportunity, and point people to the lasting hope found in

Jesus Christ.

Friends, the partnership between African Enterprise and the Evangelical Churches Fellowship of Tigray is the only lifeline to the people of Seba Kare IDP camp. We have a proven, Gospel-centred vocational program already in place teaching women tailoring skills and shop ownership which, that not only lifts vulnerable women out of poverty, but enables them to bless other in desperate need.

We are uniquely positioned to deliver practical help, spiritual hope and dignity in Christ.

We invite you to make a tax-deductible gift will make an immediate difference and help us reach our fundraising target of $450,000.

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Together in Christ we can restore hope where it is fading - and proclaim His love in the darkest places.

May God bless you,

Rev. Simba Musvamhiri
CEO, AE Australasia

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