Medical Student Makes Friends at Fresh & Green by Fasika Jembere
Hi my name is Fasika Jembere, and I’m a student at the University of Toronto. I visited the school in Ethiopia last December. I spent a few weeks there helping the mothers serve meals and assisting in any way I was needed with other tasks around the orphanage....
The Power of Personality by Neil Jones
Tales From the Field by Trish Hack-Rubinstein
November 21, 2014 I arrived in Addis Ababa, very early on Thursday morning and after checking in to a very beautiful and cozy guest house, headed to the school. The children are thriving! The care and love they receive at school is overwhelming and is what keeps me coming back to the school time and […]
Learning Lessons In Life At Fresh and Green by Angela Chukunzira
I was a volunteer at Fresh and Green and it ended up being a learning experience which transformed me beyond my imagination. The whole experience made me view the world from a whole new perspective. As a volunteer, you pass on various skills to the rest of the community without expecting anything in return but […]
Chiropractor Makes A Difference In Ethiopia
A Generation of Fatherless Children
In 2005, Ethiopia had 4,414,000 orphans, the second-highest number in Africa. You could easily double if not triple that number to determine the number of Ethiopian children being raised without a father or a significant male member of their household.Among our 90 students, the number with an adult male living permanently in the household could […]