Hiwot Tadele of Ethiopia | Story of Impact
Hiwot Tadele of Ethiopia | Story of Impact
by Hiwot Tadele
My name is Hiwot Tadele. I am a grade 8th student. I don’t have enough words to say thank Global Orphan Relief. I would like to tell you that you saved my life. Thank you so much.
My father is not alive. I live with my mother. My mother and I both suffer from health issues. Before Global Orphan Relief intervened in our situation, we couldn't even get the piece of bread to take our medicine. Medicine without food is useless, and it is also difficult to take and digest. Thanks to your assistance, we now have the food that is needed in our family.
Through Global Orphan Relief, God has changed my life for the better. With your support, we have survived and have been saved from despair. We are so thankful for this.
Your support is everything to me and am encouraged by your kindness. My family and I always pray for you and for your organization.
My hope is that you can continue this support until I finish my studies. We love the staff of Life Center, they are amazing, who also helps us with our ongoing education.
Thank you for your help and your love for me and to others who are receiving your support. I love you.
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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