The Oromo Relief Association (ORA) is a non-profit making, charity based humanitarian organization founded to offer support, counseling and care for refugees and displaced peoples around the Horn of Africa. Established in 1979 ORA helped and rehabilitated Oromo refugees and others who fled to the Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia and Kenya due to war and famine. Starting from mid 1970s hundreds of thousands of Oromo nationals fled from their homeland to escape the “Red terror” campaign of the communist Dergue regime. Particularly the Ethio-Somali war of 1977-1978 was fought largely on Ethiopian land and devastated villages after villages and left thousands of families’ home and helpless both in the countryside and in semi-urban centers. This huge influx of refugees necessitated the formation of ORA to meet the urgent need of these refugees and displaced persons. In Addition to its main office in Ethiopia, ORA is registered legally and opened Support Offices in USA, UK, Germany, Canada and Australia. Besides, ORA is legally registered under Eritrean law and opened National operation office at Asmara.