Sponsored!! Mekedes Defaru

SPONSORED! Thank You Jess Adkins!

Mekedes is a sweet and shy 5-year-old girl. Her favorite color is red and her favorite animal is a sheep.

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Mekedes is a sweet and shy 5-year-old girl. Her favorite color is red and her favorite animal is a sheep. She lives in Kechene, Ethiopia with her mom (who is HIV+) and her two brothers and one sister. Her father recently passed away from HIV. To support the family Mekedes’s mother works with thread.

Awake & Alive is a champion for educating children in Ethiopia, Africa. The children and families served by Awake & Alive in the Kechene slum (located in the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa) are among the poorest and most marginalized people in Ethiopia.

To further its purpose, Awake & Alive has partnered with Bright Future, a highly reputable Ethiopian nonprofit organization. Together, Awake & Alive and Bright Future opened a school and tutoring center in Kechene for 185 of the poorest and most marginalized children in Ethiopia. Currently, the all-Ethiopian staff provides full educational services for 4 to 7-year-old children, a large majority of which are orphans or half-orphans (one parent deceased). In addition, Bright Future provides medical and general health education for the widows of the half-orphan students.

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