Transcript Burma/Myanmar - Christian Reformed Church in North America

Caring for the Orphans
and Vulnerable Children
of Ethiopia
a project funded by
implemented by
Photos by John Connelly
For three years a special project has been
underway to assist 3,000 orphans and
vulnerable children in Ethiopia…
This program focuses on providing
children with
• Food
• Education
• Counseling
• Health & Medical treatment
• Ways for their care-givers to increase the
family income
A local steering committee has been involved
from the beginning. They created communityownership of the project, and selected the most
vulnerable children and families.
Teachers in the community volunteer
as tutors to teach children on the weekends.
And a core group of community members
encourage families and identify volunteer care givers
for children with no relatives to care for them.
Food for the Hungry social workers make home
visits every 6-8 weeks, and run after school clubs for
the children.
The children’s guardians have joined Income
Generating Activity Groups. They learn new skills,
such as cleaning & spinning cotton, to increase their
family earnings.
Tasik and Yared,
mother and son, are
both HIV +. The
project provides
them with a monthly
ration of food and
gives them access to
Anti-retroviral
medications.
Yalga proudly shows her
handicraft. She lost both
parents to AIDS. Now she
is worried she will lose her
grandmother too.
Yalga and her
grandmother join the
group waiting to
receive their food
rations.
Nearly 3,000 beneficiary families receive a
monthly food ration of cooking oil, wheat, and
peas.
This monthly food
ration has allowed the
families to stop
moving in search of
food, providing
children the stability
they need to begin the
process of changing
their lives.
Photos by John Connelly
Your support of CRWRC and the Canadian
Foodgrains Bank makes this possible.
The project can now continue for the next three
years. Thank you!
Please pray for the continued success of this
ministry in Ethiopia - for the children, the
volunteers, and the organizations
who are partnering together to
make this project possible!
crwrc.org
foodgrainsbank.ca
fh.org
Please also give generously
on Embrace AIDS Sunday (May 30)
so that more orphans, widows,
vulnerable children,
and those living with HIV
can be helped.
www.crwrc.org