Brooke Muluken of Ethiopia | Story of Impact
Brooke Muluken of Ethiopia | Story of Impact
by Brooke Muluken
My name is Brooke Muluken. I am one of the children who is supported by Global Orphan Relief. Thank you so much for your help. I wish I could tell you what I was like before I started getting support from Life Center & GO!.
My father is not alive. I live with my mother. My mother and I are both challenged my health issues. After my father's death, there was no one to support and take care of us. My mother also suffers from mental illness, so we had a lot of trouble. We did not have proper access to food or medicine. As a result, my life and that of my mother, was in great danger.
After we started receiving support from the Global Orphan, especially our food problem has been solved, we are now taking our medicines properly.
I also attend to my studies properly. I am now a 7th grader. I have a big change in my body and mind. I am very happy. Often, I teach my friends and other children what to do to prevent illness and what to do if they get sick. In addition to Jesus, the life skills training I received from the Life Center allowed me to believe in myself and live with optimism -a hope for the future.
All this is the result of your help.
The Life Center staff say that Life Center means to love each other, to be compassionate, and they give us love in practice. I am full of joy and love and tell others about the good works of Life Center and Global Orphan Relief.
I say to my God, "Lord, please protect Life Center & Global Orphan Relief until I finish my studies."
I love you and thank you for your kindness!
Nutrition is imperative for succeeding in life and important for sustaining good health overall. Malnutrition remains to be a major public health problem in Ethiopia, especially for children under five years of age.
We serve in Sekota, Ethiopia, in partnership with Life Center Ethiopia (LCE), and have done so since April 2022. With the help of LCE, we target widow-led households where the children are more disadvantaged than the average household in Ethiopia. Today we work together to serve 30 orphan children, and plan to expand this work in 2024.
GO! & Life Center Ethiopia Food Distribution for Orphan Children in Sekota, Ethiopia
LCE helps orphans, vulnerable children, and widows by leveraging a home-based family model. The children that are supported live in a home with extended family or a widow and other orphan children.
Mulu Woldetinsae, Founder & Executive Director, has been serving in this capacity from LCE’s home-base in Colorado for over ten years. Based on her own personal circumstances, Mulu experienced the challenges of not having a husband in her household when living in Ethiopia, as her husband Tamrat Layne was detained as a political prisoner for twelve years in 1996 after serving as Prime Minister of Ethiopia. From this personal tragedy she serves orphans and widows in her country of origin from a place that most of us have not experienced.
Sekota, also spelled Sokota, Sakota, Soqota (in Amharic: ሰቆጣ; formerly ሰቈጣ) is a town in northern Ethiopia. The name is likely from the Agaw word sekut, "fortified village." It was also reported that the Tigray Defence Forces controlled Sekota in Amhara on 16 August 2021. Government forces then retook the town on 22 December 2021, in the most recent conflict in Ethiopia.
Sekota is in the area known as the 10/40 Window. According to the Joshua Project, the 10/40 Window is the area of North Africa, the Middle East and Asia approximately between 10 degrees north and 40 degrees north latitude. The 10/40 Window is sometimes referred to as "The Resistant Belt" and includes the majority of the world's Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists.
You may send support or other correspondence to Global Orphan Relief, 16352 Prairie Farm Cir, Parker, CO 80134 or you may also give electronically to support orphan children at Global Orphan Relief.
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