A Farewell with Mixed Emotions

what do you do after you see 300 children learning

 

babies in a crib playing

 

and mothers running the show

 

you say goodbye to each other and cry and cry and cry

 

dance and dance and they say i must come back as their guest to visit or live

The Mothers of Amacho Now Have a Day Care

today mothers left us their babies peeking through the window of the Day Care not knowing how to walk away from them but i told them to stay long enough to see their comfort

 

it didn't take long

 

need need more cribs need more mattresses need..

 

and yet what worried me is done

 

it is a hugh success run by mothers for their children

 

To help us get the cribs we need click here

A Dream becomes a reality in Ethiopia

i still don't have the words to describe a dream in reality

 

we thougt we would open with 20-30 pre-school students

 

we have 150

 

I thought we would have two teachers we have 4 amazing teachers

 

i thought 150 children would not all sit still

 

they are learning by the minute

 

i thought people would have to learn about possibility

 

instead they knew it all along and have simply run with it

 

i still do't have the words

 

THE MOTHERS OF AMACHO WATO KEBELE

Now that i am going to Ethiopia to be the guest of the mothers of Amacho Wato as they open the Day Care Center and Learning Center that they built all I could think of was the Day they waited for me to return in the middle of the rode to tell me yes!! yes!!! we want a Day Care 


though I explained as best i could what a  Day Care Center was and what it could do to keep their babies safe and fed while they worked....free of the pottery dust that was making them sick or worse than that
what they were sure of is that they had a chance to change their desperate situation

..i don't think any of us knew to what extent they would grow with this challenge.. become builders accountant, Professional Care Givers, pre-school teachers, and an administrator.......meet the mothers of amacho wato kebele on DAY ONE that i have had the priviledge of working with and for