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To rescue Ethiopia’s most impoverished children from the deadly grasp of poverty we must rescue the country’s most impoverished mothers.

Mothers suffer terribly when they are denied an education, vocational training, employment, disease prevention knowledge, and access to clean water.

The children of impoverished mothers suffer even more. Sadly, many become victims of poverty.

Right now, one in eight children in Ethiopia will die before reaching the age of five. Each of these children has a mother who, despite her best efforts and tremendous sacrifice, feels absolutely helpless against the poverty that holds her captive.

If a mother is trapped in poverty, her children are trapped as well.

• Children suffer and perish when mothers, despite trekking ten kilometers a day in search of water, cannot find even one cup of clean water for them to drink.
• Children suffer and perish when mothers, despite working from sunrise to sunset for a mere 90 cents, cannot earn enough money to provide for even the most modest of family needs, like food and clothing.
• Children suffer and perish when mothers, despite their best efforts and unrelenting love for their children, lack the knowledge required to protect their own health and that of their children.

Here’s what your gift today will accomplish for a mother and her children...

$130 will help provide clean water for one mother and her children who live in the arid and impoverished region of Bonke Woreda, Ethiopia. Clean water will be available, with the turn of a tap, right in her village! In addition to clean water, sanitation training and health education will also be provided in order to ensure that the family gains the full benefit of clean water.

$65 will help provide the education, training, and business start-up funds a mother needs in order to create a sustainable source of income that will provide for all her family’s needs, today and into the future!

$75 will help provide counseling services, vocational training and the start up funds a woman needs in order to start a small business that will provide a sustainable source of income and free her from life on the streets.