Let's wrap up this year & start planting seeds for new growth in 2022.  Please see the link to the pdf below, our December 2021 update.

This updated report (see pdf link below) on the activities of Project Harambee highlights the ongoing support for refugees in Ethiopia, new graduates and members of our "Grow-a-Doc" programs, and the amazing crafts produced by the craft women in Kenya.

Thank you for your continued support.

Anyone who knows me, knows how difficult it is for me to ask for things.  (You might say no!)

Today I received the following update from our tireless & trusted helper in Lalibela, Ethiopia, Desiye Melku.  Thank you to all who have helped these unfortunate good people.  You have literally saved lives & preserved much normalcy for children who are just as dear as ours here!  (Please click on photo attachments below.)

It's almost Mother's Day, coincidental with a show of Teacher Appreciation at school year's end.  Who needs more STUFF?  Give a gift that every mother will cherish, a gift like no other, a gift that will help change the world.  Same for teachers.  No hand lotion or potted plant ever gave a poor child a future!  

This accounting was sent to us by Desiye Melku.  (Please read other pages for background.)

We can name names.  We can show you pictures of those who have fled war & endured unfathomable loss.  They are not strangers to us, but our brothers and sisters.  They have come to Lalibela, beset with its own problems caused by the covid shutdown of the economy.  We already are feeding 250 children & their families.  They were starving before we were able to send donations to help them.  Fortunately, we have 3 trustworthy Ethiopian friends who are administering our food/education program.

The coronavirus pandemic has caused new emergencies that we are responding to in Ethiopia.  When I visited Lalibella a year ago, I met a young man who contacted me about the terrible conditions in that part of Ethiopia brought on by not only the pandemic, but a recent scourge of locusts that devastated crops. 

The attached pdf provides additional details on Harambee’s involvement there.