by Hawassa Hope | Feb 11, 2025 | Elsabet Initiative, Hawassa Ethiopia, Sponsorship
Ethiopia’s Most Vulnerable Need Your Support Recent USAID funding cuts have left countless families in Ethiopia without access to medical care, malaria treatment, and essential food support. These cuts mean that mothers, children, and communities are now at...
by Hawassa Hope | Sep 21, 2023 | Hawassa Ethiopia, Sponsorship
When you experience the beauty, kindness and generosity of a people, it changes you on the inside! Stepping into mama Yenu’s home, I quickly realized my definitions of poverty, struggle and hardship needed a complete overhaul! Although we have real first world...
by Hawassa Hope | Jun 10, 2021 | Children's Home, Hawassa Ethiopia
We are so thrilled to share that Ajuuja Children’s Home is now complete and the children have moved in!It has been a long road and we are so grateful to all of you who gave, advocate, prayed and gave some more.It was quite the endeavor to move all the furniture,...
by Hawassa Hope | May 11, 2020 | Hawassa Ethiopia, Short Term Missions, Sponsorship
At Hawassa Hope we love to have sponsors visit and meet their sponsored children. It’s a surreal moment when you meet the child and/or family that you have written to, prayed for and supported from across a vast ocean. This past July trip we had several visits...
by Hawassa Hope | May 30, 2019 | Hawassa Ethiopia
Fichee-ChambalaallaFichee-Chambalalla is the Sidama New Year celebration. According to UNESCO’S site Fichee-Chambalaalla is a New Year festival celebrated among the Sidama people. According to the oral tradition, Fichee commemorates a Sidama woman who visited her...
by Hawassa Hope | Apr 24, 2019 | Hawassa Ethiopia, Small Business Grants, Sponsorship
There are stories that break your heart and give you pause in your daily life. Aberash’s story is one of those. Aberash became a widow years back. She rose up from that and took care of her family. She loved her children with a fierce love. She had joy in her face and...
