Helen serves as an Executive Director at New Life Teen Challenge Development and Relief Program. She strives to defend the rights of vulnerable groups of society such as women, street children, elders with no support, and people with disabilities. In the process, she believes these groups will improve their lives and enhance their capacity to live a dignified life.

Leveraging her profession as a lawyer, Helen tirelessly defends the weak and the disadvantaged. Losing her eyesight through an accident in her teens, she knows the hardship that entails being a woman and blind. She feels it’s her duty and calling to be a voice to the voiceless. Helen is a mother, a wife and a leader in her own right. 

Helen sits on the board of The Consortium of Reproductive Health Association (CORHA). She holds an LLB in Law and an MA in Social Work from Addis Ababa University. Helen speaks six languages.