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Temesgen Biyadgilign
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Age:
9
Country:
Ethiopia
Temesgen Biyadgilign is a 9-year-old boy living in extreme poverty with his family. His parents rely on begging to survive, and most days, food is scarce—sometimes his only meal comes from a local support center. The family shares a tiny, overcrowded room with many others.
His dream:
Despite these hardships, Temesgen dreams of becoming a doctor to help his family and change his future.
Your donation can give him hope and a chance to achieve his dream.
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Desta Bihonegn
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Age:
9
Country:
Ethiopia
Desta has suffered from untreated illness since age 5, as her family cannot afford medical care. She has never been to school and lives in extreme hardship with her mother and baby brother, relying on begging to survive.
Needs & Support:
She urgently needs medical treatment and access to education.
Your support can give her a chance at a healthier, brighter future.
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Kalab Miges
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📖Story:
My name is Kalab Miges, I am 6 months old. In the busy streets of Addis Ababa, my mother Hana carries me on her back every day, begging for milk. We have no home, no job, and live in a crowded room with 11 others. Some days we eat nothing.
📍Location:
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
🎯Dream:
To grow up healthy, safe, and never have to beg again.
💰Your Impact:
✔ Nutritious formula & milk
✔ Vaccinations & medical care
✔ Support for mother to find stable income
✔ Vaccinations & medical care
✔ Support for mother to find stable income
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Eyerus Deres
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📖Story:
My name is Eyerus Deres，I am 12 years old • Grade 5. In a small home in Addis Ababa, I live with my mother and grandmother. Every morning my grandmother leaves at 5 a.m. to beg on the streets. At school I am very quiet and shy — I know the answers but never raise my hand. I sit alone during breaks. I worry about money, school fees, and whether my grandmother is safe.
📍Location:
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
🎯Dream:
To find my voice, speak up in class, and believe that my thoughts matter.
💰Your Impact:
✔ School supplies, tutoring & books
✔ Confidence-building activities & mentorship
✔ Stable family income — grandmother no longer needs to beg
✔ Confidence-building activities & mentorship
✔ Stable family income — grandmother no longer needs to beg
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Barkot Adane
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📖Story:
My name is Barkot Adane, I am 9 years old, I have a brain tumor. Every day my mother Ehite stays by my side, praying and singing hymns when the pain is too strong. My big sister Kalkidan is a top student in Grade 12, but she cannot focus on her university entrance exams because she worries about me. My family faces an impossible choice: pay for my life-saving surgery or protect my sister’s future.
📍Location:
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
🎯Dream:
To be healed by God’s grace, return to school, and watch my sister become a doctor who helps other children.
📖Your Impact:
✔ Life-saving surgery & chemotherapy (6,000 Birr needed) at Tikur Anbessa Hospital
✔ Medical care so mother can care for the whole family
✔ Support for sister’s education — you save a life AND a future
✔ Medical care so mother can care for the whole family
✔ Support for sister’s education — you save a life AND a future
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Dawit Damena
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📖Story:
My name is Dawit Damena. I am 12 years old • Grade 5My little brother Afework is 7 • Grade 1. Our mother Kidist cleans houses from before dawn to feed us. Our father struggles to find daily work. When we fall sick, there is no money for medicine — we can only pray and wait. Yet both of us dream the same dream: to become doctors, so we can heal families like ours.
📍Location:
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
🎯Dream:
To become doctors who serve the poor with compassion and faith.
📖Your Impact:
✔ Medical care when illness strikes
✔ School fees, supplies & uninterrupted education
✔ Hope for two future doctors
✔ School fees, supplies & uninterrupted education
✔ Hope for two future doctors
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Fuad Seman
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📖Story:
I live in a single-parent family with my mother Metasebiya and younger sister Hanan (Grade 3, age 9). My mother works as a housekeeper and nanny for others, with almost no stable income. I used to love playing football, but a leg injury changed everything. Now I help others by shooting videos, and my greatest dream is to become a sports channel photographer — to capture powerful stories through my lens. My sister has average grades and needs steady support to continue her education.
📍Location:
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
🎯Dream:
To become a professional sports photographer and tell inspiring stories to the world..
📖Your Impact:
✔ Photography training, camera equipment & real opportunities
✔ Support for my sister Hanan’s education
✔ Help my mother Metasebiya so she no longer struggles alone
✔ Support for my sister Hanan’s education
✔ Help my mother Metasebiya so she no longer struggles alone
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Daniel Mulugeta & Simret
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📖Story:
My name is Daniel Mulugeta. I am 12 years old • Grade 6. My little sister Simret is 8 • Grade 2. We live in a very difficult single-parent family with our mother Tsige Tarekegn. I play football very well and dream of becoming a professional football player. My little sister Simret dreams of becoming a doctor. Our mother struggles every single day to provide for us, yet our dreams keep us hopeful and strong.
📍Location:
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
🎯Dream:
Daniel: Professional football player. Simret: Doctor who helps children in need.
📖Your Impact:
✔ Football training, equipment & opportunities for Daniel
✔ Education support & school supplies for Simret
✔ Stable help for mother Tsige so she can focus on her children
✔ Education support & school supplies for Simret
✔ Stable help for mother Tsige so she can focus on her children
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Daniel Mulugeta & Simret
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📖Story:
My name is Daniel Mulugeta. I am 12 years old • Grade 6. My little sister Simret is 8 • Grade 2. We live in a very difficult single-parent family with our mother Tsige Tarekegn. I play football very well and dream of becoming a professional football player. My little sister Simret dreams of becoming a doctor. Our mother struggles every single day to provide for us, yet our dreams keep us hopeful and strong.
📍Location:
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
🎯Dream:
Daniel: Professional football player. Simret: Doctor who helps children in need.
📖Your Impact:
✔ Football training, equipment & opportunities for Daniel
✔ Education support & school supplies for Simret
✔ Stable help for mother Tsige so she can focus on her children
✔ Education support & school supplies for Simret
✔ Stable help for mother Tsige so she can focus on her children
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Bethel Reta & Bereket
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📖Story:
My name is Bethel Reta. I am 14 years old • Grade 8. My little brother Bereket is 9 • Grade 4. We live in a single-parent family with our mother Nitsuh. Years ago our father abandoned us. Mama works as a laundress, washing clothes for others to pay our rent of 3,000 Birr each month. There is almost nothing left for school supplies or uniforms. I dream of becoming a fashion designer, but I spend most of my time helping at church and caring for my brother. Bereket is a joyful boy with strong faith who helps at home and dreams of simply being a child who can play football.
📍Location:
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
🎯Dream:
Bethel: Fashion designer. Bereket: To play football and enjoy his childhood.
📖Your Impact:
✔ School supplies, uniforms & education support for both children
✔ Art materials & design opportunities for Bethel
✔ Freedom for Bereket to be a joyful child
✔ Relief for our mother Nitsuh so she no longer struggles alone
✔ Art materials & design opportunities for Bethel
✔ Freedom for Bereket to be a joyful child
✔ Relief for our mother Nitsuh so she no longer struggles alone
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Yeabsira, Kalmida & Hana
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📖Story:
My name is Yeabsira Asnake. I am 13 years old • Grade 8. My sisters are Kalmida (20, Grade 12) and Hana (18, Grade 11). Our mother Tigist Tsegaye is paralyzed from the waist down and completely bedridden. She cannot move, turn over, or go to the toilet by herself. Our father left us long ago. We have no income and no one who can work. We survive only through a community welfare organization and a volunteer who comes when she can. My two older sisters are excellent students, both preparing for university entrance exams. Because the volunteer cannot come every day, I stay home from school to care for our mother: feeding her, helping her turn, and assisting with daily needs.
📍Location:
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
🎯Dream:
All three of us: To finish our education and build a better future for our mother and ourselves.
📖Your Impact:
✔ School supplies, uniforms & full education support for all three girls
✔ Special help for Kalmida and Hana to prepare for university entrance exams
✔ Relief for our paralyzed mother and daily care support
✔ Allow Yeabsira to return to school full-time
✔ Special help for Kalmida and Hana to prepare for university entrance exams
✔ Relief for our paralyzed mother and daily care support
✔ Allow Yeabsira to return to school full-time
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Hermela, Kidus, Maki & Eldana
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📖Story:
My name is Hermela Ejigu. I am 10 years old • Grade 4. My siblings are Kidus (12), Maki (6), and Eldana (4). Four years ago, our father, a taxi driver, kissed us goodbye and never came home. A car accident took him away. Now we live with our mother Merawit in a tiny borrowed room behind a grocery shop. Mama works from dawn to dusk babysitting and washing clothes just to survive. Despite everything, I study hard and always rank first in my class. My big brother Kidus takes care of us when Mama is working. My little sisters Maki and Eldana are still so young and need proper care.
📍Location:
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
🎯Dream:
Hermela: To reach my full potential and make my family proud. Kidus: To be a boy again and focus on his own future. Maki & Eldana: To have a safe childhood with basic needs met.
📖Your Impact:
✔ School supplies, uniforms & education support for all four children
✔ Relief for our mother Merawit so she no longer works from dawn to dusk
✔ Lighten Kidus's heavy burden so he can be a child too
✔ Give Maki and Eldana the security and supplies they deserve
✔ Relief for our mother Merawit so she no longer works from dawn to dusk
✔ Lighten Kidus's heavy burden so he can be a child too
✔ Give Maki and Eldana the security and supplies they deserve
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Rakeb Sisay & Yabsira
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📖Story:
My name is Rakeb Sisay. I am 10 years old • Grade 4. My little brother Yabsira is 7 • Kindergarten 2. When my little brother Yabsira was only 3 months old, our father suddenly left and never came back. Our mother Abaynesh has raised us alone ever since. A few months ago, the government demolished the old building where we lived. We had no money for rent, so now we live in a small makeshift shelter made of tarpaulin next to a football field. It leaks when it rains, has no bathroom or kitchen, and is very cold at night. Despite everything, I study hard in Grade 4 and dream of becoming a pilot so I can see the world. My little brother Yabsira is in Kindergarten and loves to play.
📍Location:
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
🎯Dream:
Rakeb: To become a pilot and see the world. Yabsira: To grow up healthy and happy.
📖Your Impact:
✔ School supplies, uniforms & education support for both children
✔ Help toward safe and stable housing
✔ Basic needs and care for our mother Abaynesh
✔ Support Rakeb's dream of becoming a pilot
✔ Help toward safe and stable housing
✔ Basic needs and care for our mother Abaynesh
✔ Support Rakeb's dream of becoming a pilot
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Soliyana Tsegaye & Hiwot
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📖Story:
My name is Soliyana Tsegaye. I am 12 years old • Grade 6. My little brother Hiwot Yidnekachew is 1 year 6 months old. Our family has lived in this Addis Ababa slum for over ten years. We are four people squeezed into a dark room less than 10 square meters, with no electricity, no running water, only a narrow passageway and one bed. One year ago my father enlisted and went to war. Since then we have heard nothing. My mother Lomi Nigussie is now too weak to get out of bed easily. She has heart and stomach problems but no money for treatment. My little brother Hiwot was only three months old when our father left. I go to school, but every other moment I spend caring for my mother and baby brother.
📍Location:
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Slum area)
🎯Dream:
Soliyana: To continue my education and one day support my family. Hiwot: To grow up healthy, strong, and safe.
📖Your Impact:
✔ School supplies, uniforms & full education support so Soliyana can focus on studying
✔ Medical care, nutrition & rest for our mother Lomi Nigussie
✔ Proper food, care & safety for baby Hiwot
✔ Basic relief so our family can breathe again while we wait for news of our father
✔ Medical care, nutrition & rest for our mother Lomi Nigussie
✔ Proper food, care & safety for baby Hiwot
✔ Basic relief so our family can breathe again while we wait for news of our father
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Connecting Hearts. Changing Futures
We envision a world where every child—regardless of geography or circumstance—has access to education, healthcare, and the opportunity to thrive, supported by a compassionate global community.Sponsor a child connects individuals around the world with children in underserved African communities through a transparent and sustainable child sponsorship program that provides access to education, nutrition, healthcare, and holistic development.
Temesgen Biyadgilign
Age: 9Country: Ethiopia
Temesgen Biyadgilign is a 9-year-old boy living in extreme poverty with his family. His parents rely on begging to survive, and most days, food is scarce—sometimes his only meal comes from a local support center. The family shares a tiny, overcrowded room with many others.
His dream:
Despite these hardships, Temesgen dreams of becoming a doctor to help his family and change his future.
Your donation can give him hope and a chance to achieve his dream.
Desta Bihonegn
Age: 9Country: Ethiopia
Desta has suffered from untreated illness since age 5, as her family cannot afford medical care. She has never been to school and lives in extreme hardship with her mother and baby brother, relying on begging to survive.
Needs & Support:
She urgently needs medical treatment and access to education.
Your support can give her a chance at a healthier, brighter future.
About Our Sponsor a Child Program
Our program connects you with a child in need and supports their growth through holistic care.
Your monthly gift helps break the cycle of poverty and builds a future filled with hope.
Your Impact
Your support provides food, education, healthcare, and spiritual care
You'll receive regular updates about your sponsored child. You become part of a life-changing journey
Nutritious Food
Healthy meals every day
Quality Education
School fees, supplies and learning support
Healthcare
Medical checkups and basic medicines
Spiritual Care
Faith guidance and emotional support
How It Works
How Sponsorship Works
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Choose a child
Changing a Child's Life
Updating Child's Status
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Choose a child
Updating Child's Status
Changing a Child's Life
A Calling to Love and Serve
We believe every child is created with purpose and dignity. Your support is more than a gift--it is an act of love, faith, and compassion.
"Let the little children come to me..." — Mark 10:14
Trust & Transparency
Trusted. Transparent. Committed.
We ensure your donation is used responsibly
Regular reporting and accountability
Real impact in real communities
FAQ
Q: Can I choose a specific child?
Yes, you can select a child from available profiles.
Q: Will I receive updates?
Yes, you'll receive regular updates about your child.
Q: Can I cancel anytime?
Yes, your sponsorship is flexible.
Email Feedback: Child's Progress Report
Weekly email updates on the child's progress make the donation process more transparent.
