They have created an amazing program that provides opportunities for women who are faced with the choice of placing a child in an orphanage in order to help them live. I order to participate in the program, the single moms must make less than 350 birr month. To give you a realistic picture that is about $20 a month. The cost to rent a home in the slum is 300-350 birr a month for a room about the size of an average bathroom in the states. We are talking no electricity and no plumbing, just a dirt floor and tin walls and roof.
They are currently serving 116 women. This program provides two meals and two snacks a day to the kids, hygiene and access to medical care and education. On site, the children attend the Embracing Hope Ethiopia daycare/preschool program or if they are school age attend school. The mothers are given a grant which helps them begin a job within a month and then open a savings account for the mothers to place their earnings in.
With out this program many of these children would be in orphanages or worse as many o father children come malnourished and on the brink of death. Currently EHE turns away 5-10 mothers a day, about half of the qualify.
They are currently taking sponsors and ask for you to pray that they will continue to receive sponsors and for a good continued working relationship with the families.
If you want to check them out you can go to www.embrassinghopeethiopia.com
We were also able to give them a big suitcase full of donations that included medical supplies, clothes, bottles and wipes from some of you. They were so grateful and said every bit helps.
We hope to post all the pictures when we come home but for now here are just a few.
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