ETHIPOIA
According to UNICEF, Ethiopia’s children are among those who are most desperately in need of help. There are about 4 million orphans in Ethiopia, a great number who have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS. Furthermore, about half the deaths of children under the age of five is due to malnutrition. Education is a great need there as well, as less than half of overall children attend primary school.

Since 2005, Reaching Hearts for Kids (RHK) has helped to support 37 orphans in Ambo and build a home for them with funds donated by an anonymous friend and The Quiet Hour TV in Redlands, California.  Reaching Hearts for Kids led a group of 31 volunteers from the U.S. and Europe to help build the new home, together with a medical team that worked at the Ambo local hospital to treat poor people of that region. Our partners, HELP International, built a Grade 1-4 school for our orphans and helped us with food expenses and salaries for the teachers and staff.

Reaching Hearts for Kids also paid for 7 hectares of land in Legedadi-Legedafu where it is planned to build a model village for orphans over the next several years.   RHK Founder and Executive Director negotiated with the Director of the Chinese Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) to build one kilometer access road for our land in Legedadi and they delivered at their promise and the road was constructed in 2008.