San Diego Ethiopian Community, Inc

Our Story

To bring together Ethiopians and Ethio-Americans residing in the San Diego area and to enable them to promote their common culture and heritage.
To create an organizational power that encompass all Ethiopians and Ethio-Americans, who accept the bylaws of the association, without regard for their religion, sex, ethnicity, age, political view, and etc., and to empower them with an ability to act as one community to protect their rights.
To provide counseling and support to community members in a time of death, illness, accident, disability, unemployment, and etc.
To establish a multi use community center that can be used to provide services, such as education, training, physical fitness training, entertainment, to community members and their family.
To protect community’s youth from bad culture, criminal tendency, and substance abuse, and to provide them with counseling, training, and rehabilitation.
To provide new community members with counseling that will enable them to transition to American culture and lifestyle.
To protect community members from human rights violations and injustice, and to forge common front when such transgression occurs.
To organize and empower community members to seek political, economic, higher education, and vocational training benefits.
To provide community youth with scholarship opportunities and to promote their efforts in seeking other scholarship opportunities and social services.