Healthcare
Medicines, diagnostics, maternity wards and tuberculosis units — the essentials that let a rural health center actually treat people.
Gurage Zone & Oromia, Ethiopia
Everyone has a right to access quality health care.
Engera USA supports eight rural health facilities serving more than 230,000 people each year — with a focus on mothers, newborns and children.
Our mission
Engera improves the health of women and children by partnering with local communities to promote well-being and prevent disease.
We work alongside Ethiopian staff and religious sisters who run each facility, investing in the things that keep care running: medicines and diagnostics, maternity wards, tuberculosis units, water wells, solar power, and the training of nurses and midwives.
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Health facilities supported
Gurage Zone and Oromia's South West Shewa
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People served
All-time, since Engera was founded
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Patients a year at Zizencho
In a village with no road in 2008
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Working since
Founded by medical volunteers from Tuscany
Current annual reach (FY2025)
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People in our catchment areas
Current annual reach across 8 facilities (FY2025)
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Patients treated a year
Outpatient visits achieved in FY2025
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Safe deliveries (2025)
Mothers supported through delivery
FY2025 figures from the Ethiopian Catholic Church Social and Development Commission plan and achievement data for the eight facilities we support. The all-time “people served” counter above is cumulative since Engera was founded.
What we do
Four kinds of support, one goal
Education
School meals, school facilities and the reusable sanitary pad programme that keeps girls in class.
Training
Scholarships and clinical training for nurses, midwives and lab staff, so skills stay in the community.
Infrastructure
Solar power, water wells and buildings that keep care running through the night and through the dry season.
Where we work
Eight facilities, one network of care
Gurage Zone
Burat Health Centre
Long-supported centre recently renovated, with solar panels installed.
View details →Gurage Zone · Photo coming soon
Gurage Zone
Zizencho Health Centre
Built in 2008 in a village with no road; now treats more than 30,000 patients a year.
View details →Gurage Zone · Photo coming soon
Gurage Zone
Gura Megenasse Health Centre
One of the region's first clinics, founded by CUAMM just over 7km from Endibir.
View details →How you can help
There are three ways to make this work possible.
Whether you donate, use your skills on the ground, or partner with us as an organisation, your support helps provide care for mothers and children in rural Ethiopia.
Newsletter
Stay close to the work
A few updates a year from the health centres — new wards, solar installations, training and the people behind them.
Your gift keeps the lights on.
Solar panels, safe deliveries, medicines and training — funded by people who believe rural health care shouldn't be a lottery.