Hey friends! For those of you curious about more details about my trip to Ethiopia with The Mocha Club and 963 Missions, you're in luck (on Friday the 13th! Ha!). One of the organizations we'll be working with is called Women at Risk. You can visit their website by clicking here. Women at Risk seeks to reach out to urban sex workers in Addis Ababa and provide them with holistic rehabilitation program that provides social, physical, and spiritual counseling as well as job training. Women at Risk started in 1993 and is staffed by full time staff members and utilizes short term volunteers (like our team!) to operate. In 2001 they opened a halfway house called Filiklik. They've been able to rescue young girls and women from the travesties of prostitution and enable them to become successful in their own upstanding businesses. I'm so excited to be able to spend time with these women, share the love of Christ with them, and to hear their stories and how Women At Risk has helped to transform their lives. Be sure to check out their website to learn more. You can learn about the history of the organization, read testimonies, etc.
And of course, you can always give to my trip :) Visit https://www.mochaclub.org/africa-trips and put my name in the top box to donate.
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If you want a really good book on a lot of what is going on in Africa and the problems it is facing, check out David Lamb's The Africans. It is a bit older, written in 1984, but I read on the recommendation of an African, who said it is still to date the best book on the subject. It's not specific to Ethiopia, but it would give you some really solid background on a lot of the issues facing Africa today.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll have to see if I can find it!!! :)
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