January 2019

Dear All, Things have moved smoothly in the past year/months. Clicksco once again have provided for our kids, and they are all fed and doing the best they can ! I thought it was beautiful they finally realised how important a lap top and a smart phone is in their lives. Thank you all who support us on this journey.     Email Account <rebecaethiocub@yahoo.com>

Wed, Jan 16, 2:41 PM

to Connie

Dear Connie,

Greeting!!

I hope this email finds you very well.

I would like to wish you and your colleagues a

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

The children are very happy with you.

They love you and they send to you a letter.

Please find below:

**Dear Mom, Greeting 

 how are you?befor any thing we wuld like to thank you!!!

 We are fine  we never forget you we miss you so much and how is father mark is he fine? how is  that beautifull dog, mom happy x mass and happy new year fto you and your beloved family . we are doing strongly our study  we are now high school, preparatory,college and university students now we are high level  student  and we are studing hurd, in this matter we need for school support a  smart phone, laptop for us it is very important , if  is possibe?

when is you coming  to Ethiopia ? we miss you so much.

we love you very much and we  wish you  all the best,

 your children

I am proud of you, I hope that someday I will see you, thank you for everything and may God bless you.

LOVE

Rebecca

School Year 2016-2017

I am terribly sorry I could not update this blog in the past months, but it does not mean we do not care for our kids. We have never stopped working for them, and never will !! 

Once again we received a donation from Clicksco, and for that, we will always be grateful. This year our loyal friend Isabel will be leaving Addis Ababa and the job of receiving the money and transferring it to the kids will be done by her trustworthy friend Rebecca. We wish Rebecca the best of luck in her new job !! 

We lost a few kids this school year which hurts, but we still have 19 kids left, so let's count the blessings. I was trying to calculate how many more years until they Graduate from College. High education has always been my main goal, and as I always say: if one of them graduates all the work will be worth it. We started in September 2008, soon it will be 9 years taking care of my sweet babies (big babies now). I miss the ones I lost over the years. Here's the current score:Grade 8 - 1 kid
Grade 9 - 2 kids
Grade 10 - 11 kids
Grade 11 - 1 kid
Grade 12 - 1 kid
I'm not sure of these kids grades: Shewaitu Derebew, Kelem Girmay Meresa and Dereje Tesfaye
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Since September 2008 with much love!

All is well

Sorry for such a gap in writing in this blog. All is well with our kids and after a generous donations by Clicksco we had all our kids back for the school year 2015/2016.

Isabel has been wonderful and we are very grateful for her help in Ethiopia.

The school year 2016/2017 starts end of September which reminds me I should send Clicksco a Happy Summer note lol They are fantastic !! And these kids are extremely blessed and lucky. Inshallah we will keep going until they graduate. This is my biggest wish !! If "some" graduate it will make my day :)

Happy Summer to you too !!

Survived 2014/2015

Thanks to Clicksco's donation we survived one more school year 2014/2015. The school year 2015/2016 has started and we had to make a few decisions. The kids that did not present their report cards we taken out of the group, so we have now 17 kids (highlighted in the chart).  Let's hope these will be with us for the next years, until they graduate Inshallah !!!

Name	Ave. Point
Marcos Belay	70
Melkamu Fekadu	66
Kirubel Selas	OUT
Elias Hayiredin	OUT
Terhas Kashun	OUT
Ajiyba Ziyad	50
Mulugeta Genetu	60
Shewaye Degef	OUT
Anewar Shefa	OUT
Meskerem Fulefula	OUT
Derje Tesfaye	65
Shewayetu Derbew	60
Yohannes Demeke	OUT
Leykun Abebe	60
Hiwot Bedlu	OUT
Iman Mohammed	56
Keleme Girmay	63
Haimanot Abiy	55
Abdi Shekur	OUT
Abdi Tofik	57
Abeba Girmay	71
Zeyneba Ziyad	57
Tizazu Tadesse	60
Enatnesh Engida	63
Meskerem Mulato	65
Adissu Tadesse	OUT
Binyiam (orphan new)	70

We NEED your donation NOW !!

2015 started in a tough way... Beginning of January we received the news that the donation we expected was not coming. Camila,  our friend and supported set up a donation site Donate to Mekdela Kids Ethiopia  but we have not reached the amount we need to keep our 26 kids fed until the end of 2015 school year

So we are faced with the hard decision to downsize our group. We have money for one more month for all the kids, and after that we must make choices. How to choose the kids that will stay? By grades? By beauty? By level of poverty? How do we know we are not killing the chance of a bright future, if they could all surprise us with a bright future? 

If we go by grades these are the kids that would remain receiving U$25 a month to pay for their breakfast and lunch on weekdays at school.

Markus 78
Tezazu 73
Meskerem Mulato 69,4
Kelem 69
Hiwot 69
Shewayer 67
Abeba 66,8
Abdi Tofik 65,4

All our kids come from very low or zero income families, and I know how much the lack of financial aid will impact in their hard lives. 

We need your help now. Please donate !! http://www.gofundme.com/k1ucg4

On the left, Isabel, our dear friend that hands the money to the kids, makes sure they are going to school. They meet at night, once a month and the parents come along. Our biggest dream is to send them to University. All of them :)

 They are all so big now.... When we first started they were small little kids...

2014-2015 School Year !

Just a quick note to let you know that once again Clicksco has made a substantial donation to our kids. Thank you very much Clicksco !!! You have been wonderful to our kids :) We have a new friend taking care of our kids in Addis Ababa. Isabel Soares will be from now on our contact with the kids and will handle all the finances on that side of the world. Our special thanks to Camila and Mohsen who have been wonderful helping us for the past years.

English Classes & Bye Bye Dear Kids !!

 Yesssssss We ve got an English Teacher !!! He works at Mekdela and seems to be a good person. He has email so we should be able to get results from the kids.

 I wrote personal messages for each student on their dictionaries. Hope they will be able to understand what I wrote sometime soon hehe

 I was very happy to find these books, I used them in Brazil, and they are the best !!

 It was very cute the way they showed us their expenses, very organized and neat.

 

 This is an estimate, we will have enough money for the whole school year :)

Time to say bye bye. It was a great visit, and I was truly happy to see my babies...