Project Harar is a charity registered in the UK and Ethiopia which works in Ethiopia to help children affected by cleft lip and palate facial disfigurements.

Project Harar works in collaboration with Ethiopian and foreign specialist plastic, oral and maxillofacial surgeons to treat children affected by a variety of conditions.

History

Project Harar was founded by Jonathan Crown, a London-based chartered accountant and businessman.

In autumn 2007, Project Harar was featured in two BBC World Service programmes on noma and the treatment of patients from remote regions. In November 2007, a documentary film made by BBC Inside Out featured a group of patients from the Hararghe and Somali regions of Ethiopia who underwent treatment by a team of UK medical volunteers, organised by the noma charity Facing Africa.^[1]

Project Harar operates mainly in the Oromia Region, including the zones of Misraq (East) Hararghe and Mirab (West) Hararghe, including the towns of Harar and Asebe Teferi, Amhara, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Regions (SNNPR) in the South West Ethiopia Region (SWEPR) and Sidama. The charity has also covered parts of the Somali Region, including Jijiga, and the chartered city of Dire Dawa.

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