09/12/2026
Melkam Addis Amet!
As we welcome 2019 E.C., we send our warmest wishes to you and your family for a year of health, peace, and renewal.
This New Year, we also want to bring an urgent crisis to your attention. Tigray, located in northern Ethiopia, is facing a compounding emergency, and it is spreading. 41 districts and 258 communities now face severe to extreme moisture stress — and 9 districts (Irob, Hintalo, Sebuha Saesie, Tsaeda Emba, Atsbi, Raya Azebo, Raya Chercher, Wejerat, and Egela) have lost their entire harvest. (Source: Tigray Disaster Risk Management Commission.)
The human toll is staggering: an estimated 3.7 million people face acute food shortages. Nearly 600,000 households have lost their harvest for the season. Farmers who replanted two or three times, hoping for rain that never came, are now out of seed, out of money, and out of time.
Livestock — the backbone of rural livelihoods in Tigray — are suffering too. Almost 3.4 million cattle, goats, sheep, and equines are running out of water and pasture. As animals weaken and die, families are being forced into distress sales at a fraction of their value, and disease is spreading: anthrax and rabies cases are rising.
This crisis is moving fast, and without immediate support, thousands of people and animals will not survive.
This crisis does not exist in isolation. Communities already weakened by years of conflict have little left to fall back on — and disrupted fuel and funding access is slowing the emergency response exactly when speed matters most.
Recently, with your generous support, ECDC delivered life-saving cash assistance to 400 IDP households across six communities in Tigray, with a total program expenditure of ETB 4,958,950.
ECDC is expanding its emergency response to reach the hardest-hit communities across Tigray.
Your gift today will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $10,000.
Double your impact. Give now.
The rains failed. We can’t afford to.
Thank you, ECDC Overseas Program
Click here to donate: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/ethiopian-community-development-council-inc/emergency-appeal-drought-in-tigray
