Project Harar Ethiopia (PHE) is an Ethiopian resident Charity, registered in E.F.D.R Ethiopian Charities and Societies Agency in 2012 and again re-registered in 2019. For the last 10 years, the charity is working on facial disability including cleft lip and palate and collaborates with government sector organizations: - health, labor and social affairs offices, INGOs and local communities to identify people with facial disfigurements from all Ethiopia regions, and arranges for them to access free medical treatment and rehabilitation. PHE further intervenes in demand and awareness creation interventions to the health extension and social workers as well as risk reduction interventions among mothers and the general public in its intervening regions. PHE has been working in all regions of Ethiopia. Children born with cleft lip and cleft palate, tumor, animal attack and burn are the major cases PHE has been involved yet through collaboration of Smile train hospitals.

These include but not limited to identify and refer patients so as to enable them to create access to free surgical care; provide direct free surgical care to patients with complicated facial disabilities, provide rehabilitation services and compressive care and support to the same. PHE operates legally by signing operational and project agreements with sector organizations in its operational regions in Ethiopia. We partner with government and private hospitals and surgeons who operate on congenital anomalies and complicated facial deformities. Apart from the ministry of health and its structure down to the health extension workers, PHE works very closely with Project Harar UK, a sister organization in the UK, supporting PHE both financially and technically to realize its vision and mission in Ethiopia. The partnership between PHE and PHUK is tremendous on annual complex surgical missions. PHE also strongly collaborates with Smile Train Inc., US based organization entirely funding the clinical costs of cleft lip and palate surgery.