Weragu · mountain area · 2,000 m a.s.l.
A clinic for the Weragu mission
The only health facility for 50,000 people is a clinic built of mud and straw, no longer safe. We are building a new one in masonry.
Non-profit · Florence · since 1983
Developing in progress
Healthcare, water, education, farming: practical projects, built together with local communities.
The association
A story of action and solidarity
Amici di Filippo was founded in 1983 in memory of Filippo Lovatelli, explorer and man of action. For more than forty years we have carried out practical projects — hospitals, wells, schools, farms — guided by a simple principle: work on the ground, alongside the communities, until every project is handed over to the people who live it.
40+years of work in the field
500,000people served by the Gambo hospital
850children at the Alaba school
135beds in the hospital we supported
What we are doing now
What we are building
All projects
Alaba · SNNPR · southern Ethiopia
Water for the Alaba school
The Consolata Fathers' school takes in 850 children, but has no drinking water. A collection and purification system will change that.
Alaba · SNNPR · southern Ethiopia
New classrooms for the Alaba school
Enrolment requests grow every year. Three new classrooms will give around 90 more children the chance to study in proper conditions.
Where we work
Ethiopia, the central highlands
We work in Ethiopia's Rift Valley region: the Gambo mission, the Alaba school, the Weragu clinic. Places reachable only after hours on dirt tracks, where one water tank or one extra classroom changes the life of a village.