Project Update
| Health Care
The Gara Dima Health Clinic opened its doors on 4-18-11. On this great day, many villagers were treated by two nurses for a variety of ailments. The first person to enter for treatment was elder villager, Woday Guda, who is an amazing 103 years young. (Read More...) |
 | Water Project
Clean water is flowing in Gara Dima village! It has taken three plus years of project planning, fund raising, borehole drilling, numerous delays and what seemed like endless negotiations with all the local administrative entities to bring this great project to completion. Gara Dima Village now has what most of us take for granted (Read More...) |
| Scholarship
The World Family has identified students worthy of financial support. To be eligible for a scholarship, a student must come from an impoverished family and show academic promise. In Ethiopia, high school students take national exams at the end of grade 10. If they pass, they are eligible for (Read More...) |
 | Teens Without Borders
This initiative of The World Family aims to provide teens in Northern California high schools with the opportunity to learn from long-term, teen-led community development efforts in Ethiopia. Local high schools are given the resources and guidance to adopt development programs in Ethiopian villages through a multi-year program involving (Read More...) |
| Weaving Project
Abdulla's (the weaver's) story really begins, in December, 2009, when he stood at the door way of the Community Center in Gara Dima, along side other men and women. This is where I met him. He arrived, like them, to take park in a carpet weaving class about to begin. The class was provided by The World Family and taught by, Bert Manriquez, (Read More...) |
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The World Family Ethiopian Orphans and Medical Care is a humanitarian
organization founded in July 2003. It is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization
with no political, religious or ethnic affiliations. |
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