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...

For your Easter Basket

Looking to stuff your own Easter Basket this year?  You’ll love our new Spring Gift Box ($20) with a pink hand towel and cinnamon tea from Ethiopia! Perfect also for your Easter hostess or let us ship directly to a friend to share some Easter blessings!...
Questions posed to FEP mothers

Questions posed to FEP mothers

Planting the seeds to financial freedom starts with knowing your core beliefs! As part of our AJ Financial Literacy Curriculum, we pose the questions to our FEP mothers: What are beliefs? Where do those beliefs come from? And then we discussed as a group what are the...
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...
From Lucky

From Lucky

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day from Lucky the Dog, who lives at our AJ Home! #Addisjemari #AddisJemariMarketplace