Burayu CarePoint

in partnership with the Sue Dood Connect Community

Burayu CarePoint is located on the northwest border of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. The community is hardworking and resourceful, though many families face challenges such as high unemployment, inability to afford school fees, malnutrition, and overcrowded housing. Local industries include small-scale food and oil production, as well as woodworking factories.

In partnership with the Sue Dood Connect Community, Burayu CarePoint provides a safe and welcoming space where children and families can access programs that support education, leadership development, nutrition, health, and spiritual growth. Through these programs, children build on their strengths, families gain practical tools to thrive, and the community grows stronger. 

By connecting communities, this partnership transforms lives, builds lasting relationships, and empowers local leaders to sustain the CarePoint’s mission for generations.

The HopeChest Team Supporting Burayu

Yared Ayele
Program Manager

Tenbit Zeleke
Community Relationship Manager

Orion Netsanet
Strategic Partnership Director

Sue Dood
HopeChest Partnership Leader

Sponsor a Child at Burayu

Empowering a child is one of the most personal ways that you can make an impact on global poverty. It is more than providing for their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. When you sponsor a child, you build a relationship that shows that child they are valuable, worth loving, and worth investing in.

Your sponsorship is the starting point of a journey that equips vulnerable children, their families, and their communities to create sustainable transformation. When you sponsor a child with HopeChest, you are not just supporting one child — you are helping transform entire communities.

Start a Fundraiser for Burayu
or Become an Ambassador

HopeChest’s approach to alleviating poverty is asset-based, because we believe that in every place on earth there are resources, not only for surviving, but for thriving and succeeding. Local leaders tell us what they do have instead of what they don’t have, and we walk with them to see their vision for their community come to fruition through development projects.

A fundraiser for Burayu CarePoint is transformational rather than transactional. It promotes empowerment rather than dependence. Your support for these projects will go a long way as, together, we invest in holistic and sustainable solutions that address the root issues of poverty.

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When our staff visit CarePoints, the most common question they get from children is how their sponsors are doing. They LOVE hearing from you!

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