It is with great joy that Hopethiopia has been able to launch the “Widow Sponsorship” program in Harbu Chulule, Ethiopia. Our first family has 5 children ranging in age from 1 year old to 13 years old. They are a wonderful family but facing a very desperate situation. We will be providing them with monthly [...]

Athletes for Hope – May 2012 Play hard; pray hard; praise hard; love hard After touring several genocide memorials and getting grounded in Rwanda, Athletes for Hope arrived in Gisenyi to work alongside Frère Gabriel Lauzon at Vision Jeunesse Nouvelle. The plan was to lend strong arms and backs to a work project that needes [...]

Today the students from Harbu Chulule were able to tour Addis Ababa sites and businesses. Hopethiopia hosted students on the second annual tour of important sites in Addis The students had a great time as we visited important sites very significant to the Ethiopia history The students had an excellent visit at the Commercial Bank [...]

We returned to HC for a few days of intensive work. A number of projects needed attention such as: Reinforcing the support for the new water tower Building a shelving system for the storage containers. Over time we have been gathering an extensive supply of building equipment and materials, this helps us to organize and [...]

After spending a number of days working at the project site in Harbu Chulule the USA team had to return home. The remaining team continued with meetings in  the Addis Ababa area as well as working back in Harbu Chulule. First we visited the Genesis farms in Debre Zeit. This is a large farm cooperative [...]

The Vision team has been in Ethiopia for a few days and lots has been accomplished in regards to planning out some of the next steps for the Hopethiopia Project. Our team consisting of 4 Canadians, 3 from the USA, and 3 from Ethiopia spent most of the time at our different project sites in [...]

Wayne King and the construction team have returned home after spending some intense time building childrens home #2. They were very successful in their efforts and the following pictures chronicle some of the process in building this home.

Hopethiopia has a team of young adult Canadian students living in Harbu Chulule. Kiersti, Rilla, david, and Janessa have been able to engage in a number of different opportunities in the community ranging from education, construction, education, and health care. In this unique opportunity, Kiersti and Rilla joined up with an amazing Ethiopian eye surgeon. [...]

Wayne King and the team have been very busy in Ethiopia. Here is the latest update that Wayne sent so that you can get a feel for what has been going on. Please check the links to see the latest images of what has been going on. “We arrived on Friday, March 23rd, and are [...]

Wayne King leads a new construction team to Ethiopia to build childrens homes 2 and 3. Home number 1 is almost complete and one of the finishing touches is our first toilet. Lots of concrete work is needed and we are very grateful that the price of materials has decreased in Ethiopia

Hopethiopia was honored to be invited to tour the new AU facility in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  Now more than 5 times the size of the previous AU meeting centre, the new conference hall will be able to host 2,550 delegates. Ralph, Zerihun, and Shiferaw tour all the new buildings and facilities. The huge main hall [...]

Mugeni passed away around 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning … we spent several hours at the hospital with Monika and Amena and all the others who gathered to support them … we left to get money to pay the remaining bills and then met at 8:00 p.m. to discuss the funeral arrangements. Olivier organized it [...]