PBF health interventions: Misdiagnosis is a major health risk for the rural poor Around the world, rural populations face barriers to accessing health services. One response has been numerous initiatives to promote technological innovation, new management Read more [...]

Education for students from marginalized areas and destitute families In many families, many young people drop out of school for a variety of poverty-related reasons. These include unaffordable school fees, transportation costs, maintenance costs, boarding Read more [...]

Shelter and dignity: Building houses for the destitute continues For almost 15 years, the PBF Foundation has been supporting destitute people in Lalibela. They are the most neglected people in society, living in deplorable conditions, most of them living Read more [...]

After the war: New Initiative in Lalibela - a mill for the poorest During the war between the Federal government and the Tigray region, most infrastructures such as electricity, water and health services were completely destroyed. Even after the end Read more [...]

The situation in  Ethiopia; Why Ethiopia's stability is threatened and yet so important. Here is an article by Dr. Alfred Schlicht published in the  DÄV, The German Ethiopian Association eV. Link: https://deutsch-aethiopischer-verein.de/artikel-1/articles/schlicht-aethiopiens-stabilitaet.html The Read more [...]

April: Ethiopian Dinner in Zurich On 10.4.2022 an Ethiopian Dinner took place in Zurich. More than 60 people signed up for the event and with their entrance fee of Fr. 50.00 they made this fundraising possible. At the invitation of Niklaus Schlienger, Read more [...]

VDI: Centre for the Accompaniment of the Elderly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. VDI is the name for a small association of Catholic lay people in Ethiopia. They work on a voluntary basis for the poorest, the old women and men, in Addis Ababa. The centre is Read more [...]

The Fuga: the socially excluded and economically disenfranchised tribe in southwestern Ethiopia PBF has been in contact with the Fuga for several years, first through Beatrice Gill's visit with Abba Mathewos. Recently, 26-year-old PBF student Getachew Read more [...]

Cafeteria in Lalibela is a place for the youth  Young men and women aged 27 to 35 have set up an ecologically run cafeteria in Lalibela. They serve only locally produced and cooked food. All five participants have at least completed high school. One Read more [...]

PBF supports a local community-based organisation in Uganda ACTION OF LOVE INTERNATIONAL is a local Christian non-governmental organisation in Eastern Uganda that works to empower children, youth and communities. Its aim is to address poverty, disease Read more [...]