Like many kids in the US, the school-age kids in our Family Empowerment Program (FEP) attend school on a Plan B schedule, attending class only three days a week on a rotating schedule. To help support these kids’ education and their parents’ child care...
By: Ashley Henderson, Community Outreach and Retail Coordinator Back in January, with fifteen magazines, two books, a change of socks, and a bag crammed full of snacks, and I do mean crammed, all in my carry-on bag, I boarded a plane with my then seventeen year-old...
By: Kennedy Henderson, Addis Jemari’s Teen Board President When I was given with the opportunity to go to Ethiopia with Addis Jemari, I jumped at it. The fact that I was about to travel to a third world country did not hit me until I was next to my mom on the...
In part one of this blog post, we promised to come back with what AJ is doing surrounding children’s education that will ultimately help them break the cycle of poverty within their families. As we emphasized earlier, generational poverty is not only a daily lack of...
Aida* is one of our Family Empowerment Program (FEP) mothers and she has five children, three are boys and her youngest are twin girls. When AJ first met Aida, she was a single parent raising the children without anyone’s support on an average monthly income of $60...
