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Mike Rhodes, who is involved with Morrell Agro Industries in Ethiopia, is now helping Heidi Brown with the Body of Christ Orphanage in Kenya. The orphanage is located just outside of Nairobi, Kenya and is run by Pastor Mary Watare and her husband. The couple has been trying to add buildings to the rented property [...]

In the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Jason Burton, a volunteer dedicated to helping the children on the streets of Ethiopia, founded a boys’ shelter to take homeless boys off the streets and give them a place to live. This shelter is called Where Love Is. It is a non-profit organization whose mission is to [...]

Julie recently had a conversation with a former chief medical director at the Hill Air Force Base in Utah, and she learned that, when doing medical military training, it is important to get hands-on experience dealing with diseases in third-world countries. A lot of military personnel are deployed to these countries, and it is rare [...]

Julie Rhodes is currently developing medical expedition to clinics in Ethiopia to expose people from the United States to the kind of medical problems that are present in Ethiopia. They will be given the opportunity to volunteer their time, knowledge, and medical expertise to take care of the Ethiopian people, from severely ill cases to [...]

Julie has also been working with Katie Yanguez, on the formation of medical clinics in Ethiopia. The medical clinic that was at the Village of Hope in Kersa Illala was shut down in October 2009. Katie is in charge of getting the clinic back up and running with Julie’s support. Julie spent March 2010 in [...]

Crop varieties could help with famines.

For this year, 2009, the Children’s Educational Relief Foundation (CERF) has awarded a grant to Afega Elementary for its refurbishment program.  As for scholarship, CERF has awarded 41 scholarships to the following schools: Laulii Elementary Moataa Elementary LDS Elementary Ah Mu Academy Lalomanu Elementary CCWS, Vaimauga College Faleata College Applications for scholarships next school year (2010) have [...]

In 2004, Steffanie Reeder, a special education teacher, went on a week-long humanitarian expedition to the  rural village of Kersa Ilala in Ethiopia with an organization called the Village of Hope, based out of Heber City, Utah.  After returning home, the images of children in tattered clothing drinking dirty water and living in mud huts [...]