21^st Century Basic Human Services dba Global Poverty Action (GPA) is a Seattle, Washington, USA based non-profit organization that collaborates with impoverished communities in Seattle, WA as well as in Ethiopia to ensure access to water, health care, education and economic development.

The organization has 501(c)(3) status in the United States and is recognized as a foreign Charity in Ethiopia  (Registration #      ) 21^st Century Basic Human Services has offices in Seattle, WA, USA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Moyale, Ethiopia.  

Global Poverty Action is focused on the issue of water and sanitation in the Liban Zone of southern Ethiopia. Our work is practical, project based, and yields concrete, measurable results.

The pastoralist people of the Liban Zone are the most under-served population in the country that has consistently had the poorest access to water in the world. GPA is poised to help where the need is truly the greatest.

In 2011-2012 we are undertaking our biggest project ever – providing water sources and sanitation education in 17 Kebeles in the Moyale and Hudat Woredas that will provide 100,000 people with safe, easily accessed drinking water who currently walk days for contaminated water. Please help by donating now. Giving

TESTIMONIALS

Global Poverty Action is a humane organization spearheaded by very professional civil society activists with the aim of putting the last first and turning the dreams for the poor millions in Africa into a reality. - Abdul Ibrahim Haro, Project Coordinator, Conflict and Disaster Mitigation Project, Intermediate Technology Development Group, East Africa.

“You are the first NGO to come to us to ask our opinion. We have been trying to get someone to hear our story” Saadia Osman, Deputy Speaker Moyale Districts, Moyale, Ethiopia and leader of the Salom Women’s Group. Read more