by admin | Dec 19, 2014 | Mothers Cooperative
Mothers add bread to injera and craft skills Many of the mothers of our students stay and work at the school. Their Cooperative, which Canadian Friends of Fresh and Green Academy supports, has grown to 250 ladies. Not only do they prepare and cook meals for 500...
by admin | Dec 18, 2013 | Mothers Cooperative
The Fresh and Green Mothers Cooperative has been expanding and the quality of their items is top notch! Eighty-one women in the neighborhood of Kotebe in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have changed their lives by joining the Mothers Cooperative. The women not only create...
by admin | Jun 14, 2010 | Mothers' Stories
Like many of the mothers in the Cooperative, Almaz left her small village of Zebich for a better life in Addis. She was only 16 years old and grateful for her luck when she found work as a housekeeper for a wealthy man and his family. However, being hired as a...
by admin | Jun 14, 2010 | Mothers' Stories
Workay was born 35 years ago in the village of Gatu, about 260 km from Addis Ababa. She only has use of one of her legs, the other was crippled in childhood, most likely by polio. There’s no way to know, of course. Workay can’t remember a life where she...
by admin | Jun 13, 2010 | Mothers' Stories
The Mothers’ Cooperative is a large and loving “extended family” for 90 women who have children attending Fresh and Green Academy. They come to the school three or four days a week to take classes in hygiene and child care, and to share their knowledge, wisdom and...
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