A gift for life: a sheep for a family in Eritrea

Dear Donors,

With this final report we would like to update all of you on the current situation in Eritrea. In March 2023 the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Refugee Agency report that the human rights situation in the Country remains dire and shows no sign of improvement. It continues to be characterized by serious human rights violations:arbitrary detention, inhumane conditions of detention, enforced disappearances, restrictions of the rights to freedoms of expression, of association, and of peaceful assembly. Thousands of political prisoners and people with a different faith continue to be imprisoned.

Furthermore, Eritreans continue to be subjected to indefinite military or national service, which intensified the Tigray conflict. Those who attempt to desert military service are detained and punished. The government further continues with the practice of punishing family members for the behavior of relatives who evade the draft, including by home evictions.

Since 2022 people continue to feel the impact of weak socioeconomic conditions, low food production, a decline in family remittances due to economic sanctions and depletion of groundwater levels affecting access to potable water. The country's most fragile ecosystems are threatened by climate change and desertification as well as desert locust infestations. These multiple drivers of vulnerability have affected more than 1.1 million people who are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, including 745,600 children.

Aleimar, with the project “A gift for life: a sheep for a family in Eritrea” has always stood by the side of local population, in particular by the side of children and women in situation of vulnerability. During the last months our local partner has reported an always increasing difficulty in reaching all the families supported and it is becoming always more dangerous for them to move around the Country. For all these reasons Aleimar has decided to continue to collaborate with our local partner, but the Organization wants to focus its actions in favor of local schools and reception centers that welcome children in need. Working with local operating bodies will allow us to improve our monitoring activities and to keep on assuring the transparence of all the donations received.

We want to thank all the donors that in these last years have donated to this project and that have decided to support a lot of women and children in Eritrea, increasing their food security and health! We hope that all of you will keep supporting the children involved in our other projects on GlobalGiving.

Thank you!