Haftu Tilahun of Ethiopia | Story of Impact
Haftu Tilahun of Ethiopia | Story of Impact
by Life Center Ethiopia (LCE)
April 8, 2025
Haftu Tilahun's Story
My name is Haftu Tilahun, a 10th-grade student with big dreams and a strong heart. I live with my mother, my younger brother, and my sister. Life hasn’t been easy for us—but my mother has always been our strength, our guide, and our safe place.
Our mother is living with HIV, and because of that, she has health issues.
In the middle of this struggle, Global Orphan Relief began supporting me, and your support changed our lives. Today, I can go to school and focus on my future. My mother is now receiving the medical attention she needs, and she is finally able to take care of herself without worrying about how to provide for us.
Thanks to Global Orphan Relief, I now wear clean clothes and walk with dignity. I have hope for tomorrow.
I am blessed to receive love from the staff at Life Center and to get help with my education through the after-school tutorial class at the Life Center compound.
All I can say is thank you to Global Orphan Relief for helping me in my life.
May God bless 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. The children that we support with our partnership Life Center Ethiopia are served through our Nutrition Initiative which is the major emphasis of this project.
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 25 orphan children, and will grow this partnership when resources are available.
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.
Global Orphan Relief (GO!) has been serving orphaned children since 2005, and as a result of this effort, children, widows, families, and entire communities are transformed through our Nutrition initiative. The care provided creates a ripple effect through communities as we demonstrate God’s love for His people.
You may send support or other correspondence to Global Orphan Relief, 16352 Prairie Farm Cir, Parker, CO 80134 or you may give also give electronically at Nutrition Initiative or you may give on this website at the upper righthand corner under ‘Donate’ and choosing Nutrition under the Fund designation.
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