Hi! My name is Karsyn Elmore. I am vice president of the Addis Jemari Teen Board. I have absolutely loved being on the teen board and having the opportunity to meet new people and work together on projects. Even though our year and projects were interrupted early due...
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...
Poverty can be defined simply as the inability to afford minimum standards of food, clothing, and shelter. Generational poverty, however, occurs when people do not have the resources, such as financial capital, education or social capital necessary to rise out of...
By: Ashley Henderson, Community Outreach and Retail Coordinator for Addis Jemari I can’t recall the countless number of times over the years that I’ve piled my girls into the car and headed to our local library just three minutes from our home. When they were...
