With grace, compassion and patience

With grace, compassion and patience

Congratulations to our AJ Girls and their dedication to their education! We have received the results of all of their end of year exams and couldn’t be more proud of them.It’s been a “different” year for everyone to say the least. We are proud of how our girls have...
Meet Birtukan: Striving for Change!

Meet Birtukan: Striving for Change!

Meet Birtukan. She has two children, Kibrom and Fikir. The family lives in a small one-room house without enough space for the family to sleep. When Birtukan joined Addis Jemari’s Family Empowerment Program (FEP), her children slept on the one bed that the family...
Meet Enku: A Story of Resilience

Meet Enku: A Story of Resilience

Enku is a strong, personable young woman who smiles constantly and maintains close relationship with her neighbors. She is a single mother of two girls and lives in a compound with five other households. Enku has little formal education and struggles with her reading...
Faces light up with understanding

Faces light up with understanding

Values, emotions, goals, and tying them to money management is how AJ teaches Financial Literacy to the parents in our Family Empowerment Program. We get excited for our parents when their faces light up with understanding and we can see in their eyes that they now...