The mission of Wegene Ethiopian Foundation is to improve the daily lives of the less fortunate and disadvantaged children and their families in Ethiopia by overcoming three critical barriers in the seemingly unbreakable poverty cycle: poor or no education, poor housing, and family instability.

The Wegene Ethiopian Foundation's mission is based on the philosophy that if hardworking but destitute families are given the opportunity, the tools and resources to improve their lives, they will be able to pull themselves out of the poverty cycle and give their children better educational opportunities and lead happy, healthy and productive lives.

The children of these families are deprived of basic human conditions, such as nutrition, health, care, and nurturing love that every child needs to survive at a young age. The conditions under which these children grow up in affect not only their immediate well-being, but also their future lives, which are largely in the hands of the family or community into which she or he is born.

This is why they at WEF focus on the entire family as a unit. They use a preventative approach to address these deprivations or underlying issues of poverty. Their program is unique in that it is designed to sponsor and support destitute family in their own home settings. The caregivers are locals of Ethiopia and are committed to make WEF sponsored families one of their own. They are the backbone of the organization, and this foundation aims to restore hope in these families, prevent them from being consistent victims of poverty, and enable them to become self-sufficient.