We have all been doing our best to mix up our routines here in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic, and this has been the same for our AJ Girls 💛 in Ethiopia, too. The girls have been spending time outside and exercising to pass the time. To stay healthy, our...
A few months ago, Addis Jemari held an opening ceremony for its brand new Family Empowerment Center in Akaki-Kality, the sub-city where our Family Empowerment Program is located in Addis Ababa. The event was attended by 125 FEP family members, AJ staff, and our AJ...
You never know where your strengths lie until you put yourself into new situations to grow! Growing is precisely what one of our AJ Girls did this summer through her “Change Your Community” Service project. This AJ Girl chose to work with an organization that tutors...
Courage, compassion, and grit are precisely what this particular AJ Girl showed in spades when she chose to make the St. Mother Teresa Home for the Sick and Dying Destitutes the focus of her “Change your Community” project this past summer. She worked in the unit of...
Changing things up for our #AJGirls this summer as they transition their focus from their school studies to one of our #AJ5CoreValues, Community Involvement. Our social worker, Leila, has been taking the girls on community involvement visits to other NGOs...
