About Terepeza
The Terepeza Development Association (TDA) is the community development arm of Ethiopia’s Wolayta Kale Heywot Church. We serve the Southern region of the country with over 200 staff and several thousand community volunteers.
TDA practices best practice standards and is a recognized leader in innovative community development with very clear Christian foundations. Always working through the local church, TDA uses economic empowerment, conservation agriculture training, natural resource management, community development and children’s programs, and church leadership development in achieving a measurable positive impact in rural Ethiopia. When famine and disaster strike, TDA has a skilled and experienced humanitarian response team of staff and thousand s of volunteers.

Here’s How We’re Transforming Communities

Conservation Agriculture
Feeding families in moisture stressed environments

Natural Resource Management
Reclaiming the land for environmental sustainability

Economic Empowerment
Transforming women & families through Self Help Groups

Humanitarian Response
Saving lives in times of crisis

Health
& Nutrition
Reducing infant mortality

Child
Development
Giving hope and a future to children