This Earth Day, we’re highlighting the importance of good environmental stewardship and the difference it makes for people living in poverty. For many of us in Western contexts, caring for the planet is a choice we can...
Fozia regrets the stories she made up to avoid going to school. “I mourned [the death of] my relative” or “I had to take care of my feeble grandma,” she would say to the teacher. Fozia is 15 years old and is an 8th ...
‘‘A big scar on my knee carries my old memories,’’ says Ayal Melaku. She remembers the day it happened. While walking back home carrying a clay pot of dirty water that was 20 liters (44 pounds), Ayal fell and injured...
| Alemnesh (L) and Yeshiwas enjoy time they have at the well site |
“Praise God, for now I have time for myself. Fetching water is no more a burden, rather, a time break I get from the house chores and have a...
| Bereket (center) reads from the Bible with several of his Sunday school students |
‘‘The Child Focused Theological Education Trainings have improved my teaching skill and methodology for Sunday school classes,’’...
| Aselefech (right) and her neighbor Chaltu wash cups with clean water from the borehole |
‘‘I wish my son would have been alive to see the safe water we have, and a healthy life we enjoy nowadays,’’ said a mother...
“Getting up as early as 5:00am and walking every day for one hour to a nearby water source to fetch water was really wearisome,” said Tringo Buche (18). She is a twelfth- grader and lives with her parents and five...
| Tsega considers her spiritual growth to be a blessing. |
Nine-year-old Tsega Seifu, is one of the vibrant children in the Sunday school at Evangelical Church of Mekane Yesus. She has been in Sunday school since...
| Guale carries clean water home |
“My life now and before is like heaven and the earth. Incomparable!” says Guale, a 15-year-old girl in 8th grade, who aspires to be a successful business woman. Guale and her...
| Shuda (left) and her friend Meskerem drawing water |
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Bowolicho village is located in the Hula Area Program operation area, 231 miles south of Addis Abba, Ethiopia’s capital....
