Student Initiative Rahel

The nonprofit project started in 2010 and collected money until 2017, financing scholarships for disadvantaged young people, mostly women, in Adigrat in northern Ethiopia.

In a farewell letter to the donors, the Rahel team wrote that it expected its work to be gradually taken over by the Adigrat Diocesan Catholic Secretariat (ADCS) and former graduates in Ethiopia.

[11] The project supported disadvantaged, primarily female, young people in the Tigray Region who lack equal access to education for reasons of poverty or gender.

[14] The educational project was financed through public donations and campaigns, such as at the Frankfurter Stadtkirchenfest at the Frankfurt Cathedral,[15] collects in Catholic church parishes and the Holy Cross - Centre for Christian Meditation and Spirituality of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg, or the summer festival of the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology.

[17] The Rachel educational project was funded by the Cusanuswerk, a gifted support program under the supervision of the Catholic German Bishops' Conference[18] and by the Centre for Christian Meditation and Spirituality of the Diocese of Limburg.

[19] The project was supported by the Pontifical Mission Societies (German: missio) in all financial matters, such as account management, the administrative costs or the transfer of money to Ethiopia.

[20] The project manager of the ADCS Woldemariam Besirat selected the scholarship holders,[15] and organized religious education workshops on topics such as AIDS, the consequences of emigration or ethical issues.