Economic Empowerment
Helping poor and marginalized women build sustainable livelihoods through skills, savings and income-generating activities.
Ethiopian Resident Charity · Since 2000
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Family Service Association supports individuals, families and communities across Ethiopia to achieve a better quality of life — through economic empowerment, protection from violence, health, education and emergency response.
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Our Vision
A society in which everyone is socially and economically empowered.
Our Mission
To support individuals, families and communities to achieve a better quality of life.
Who We Are
A society where everyone is empowered.
Family Service Association (FSA) is a non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit organization established in 2000 by volunteer Ethiopian professionals with rich experience in gender, social work, human development, RH/FP and HIV/AIDS.
Registered with the Ministry of Justice in 2006, FSA re-registered under the Charities and Societies Law of 2010 as an Ethiopian Resident Charity (Reg. No. 0622).
More about FSAWhy we exist
When a woman is empowered, an entire community rises with her — healthier children, stronger families, and futures rewritten across Ethiopia.
Since 2000, FSA has turned that belief into practical, measurable change — one woman, one family, one community at a time.
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Women & girls rehabilitated and empowered
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Community members reached with awareness
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Women economically empowered through IGA
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Students supported with school feeding
What We Do
Integrated programs, lasting change.
Designed to lift women, youth and communities out of poverty and vulnerability across Ethiopia.
From the Field
See the change for yourself.
Income-Generating Activities (IGA)
Women Economic Empowerment
Women supported by FSA run their own small businesses — shops, kiosks, injera baking, produce trading, cafés and poultry rearing with laying hens from FSA — backed by business-skills training and savings groups.
6,000+
women economically empowered
Keeping children in school
School-Based Social Work
School bags, exercise books, stationery and menstrual hygiene kits handed to students so that every child — especially girls and students with disabilities — can keep learning.
600+
students supported
What Guides Us
Our core values.
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Solidarity
Standing together with the communities we serve.
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Stewardship
Responsible, transparent use of every resource entrusted to us.
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Networking
Working hand in hand with partners, government and community.
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Empowerment
Enabling people to take charge of their own development.
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Integrity
Honesty and accountability in all that we do.
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Compassion
Meeting people with dignity, empathy and care.
Trusted by partners and donors worldwide
German Catholic Bishops Organisation (Misereor)Federal Ministry of Health, EthiopiaDFID / NEWAInter-Church Aid, Ethiopia & Eritrea (ISEE)Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA / UEWCA)Secours Populaire Français (SPF)FSA NederlandInternational Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR)Plan International EthiopiaGIZ / NEWACSSP2German Catholic Bishops Organisation (Misereor)Federal Ministry of Health, EthiopiaDFID / NEWAInter-Church Aid, Ethiopia & Eritrea (ISEE)Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA / UEWCA)Secours Populaire Français (SPF)FSA NederlandInternational Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR)Plan International EthiopiaGIZ / NEWACSSP2
Get Involved
Join us in building a society where everyone is empowered.
Your partnership helps us reach more women, children and families across Ethiopia. Let's create lasting change together.
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