Background

The Abebech Gobena Children’s Care and Development Organization is a registered an indigenous non-governmental and non-political humanitarian organization founded by an Ethiopian woman named Abebech Gobena during a severe famine in 1980 in the northern Ethiopia. Abebech Gobena, Founder and General Manager of the organization, started her humanitarian work after she found a baby sucking her dead mother’s breast. From the very beginning, Abebech stressed self-reliance to finance her projects to the extent of selling her jewelry and other possessions and also run small businesses acumen to raise finance. Besides institutional care and support of orphans, the organization has started different developmental activities in rural and urban areas. AGCCDO has largely involved in rural and urban integrated developmental activities and supporting directly and indirectly about 600,000 marginalized segments of the communities both from urban and rural settings. Today, the Abebech Gobena Organization supports, directly and indirectly, a total of 1.5 million Ethiopians, out of which the majority are orphans while others are victimized women and victims of natural disasters.

Objective

Our purpose in this project is to:

  • Create awareness about the plight of Ethiopian orphans to the general Ethiopian and American public and in particular the youth
  • Raise funds to assist orphans
  • Be an avenue in sponsoring a child


Results

We plan to:

  • Raise $8,000 / 69,040 Ethiopian Birr
  • Sponsor 80-100 Ethiopian orphans
  • To create overall, continued awareness and an atmosphere to continue to support orphans


How to help

You can help The For Kids From Kids project through many avenues:

  • You can sponsor a child in the Sponsor A Buddy program. With a kind annual donation of $100, you can help a child live, eat, drink, dress and play. (Contact us at info@ethusa.org or call 617-441-3140 for more information on sponsoring an orphan).
  • You can volunteer your time by helping staff our events, meetings and help prepare necessary materials with us
  • You can join us as a member where you can do more to campaign against poverty and for the developmental growth of Ethiopia
  • You can just make a kind donation not through sponsorship
  • You can help promote awareness of the plight of Ethiopian orphans and promote the project as a means to help disadvantaged Ethiopian children and youth


Wow, I’m Amazed!

Indeed you are! Now its time to act! Get out your check book and donate to help Ethiopian orphans through the For Kids From Kids Project benefiting The Abebech Gobena Children’s Care and Development Organization. To donate, we ask that you fill out a donation form and write a check or money order to “Ethiopian American Youth Initiative,” in the subject write “For Kids From Kids Project” or simply “Orphans.”

Information

The For Kids From Kids Project is a project of the Ethiopian American Youth Initiative that aims to promote awareness and raise funds to help Ethiopian orphans. There are over 4,500,000 orphans in Ethiopia. Sadly enough, sometimes this high number is forgotten about. We want to see this number go down so that our brothers and sisters can finally find a place called home and someone to call mother and father!