hope by twelve

guest blogger-julie

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:16:30 +0000

This is written from the woman behind raising all the funds to build the school in Kololo-Julie Corby!!

I am thrilled that Hope by Twelve has decided to partner with Tesfa on this exciting new school in the Kembata region of Ethiopia. This school will be the village of Kololo’s very first school. Life in Kololo can be tough for a kid, especially for a young girl. Kololo farmers grow corn, ginger, teff, coffee, mangos, avocados, bananas, and godere, (which is a plant similar to potatoes). Children are expected to work the farms as young as age five. Children spend hours working in the fields, gathering water, and taking care of smaller siblings. In the past, a girl would have to walk over two and a half hours, each way, to get to any kind of school. Tesfa’s new Kololo school will educate hundreds of local children. Many, many lives will be changed.

As a sponsor you will be in from the very beginning. You can watch the school going up, Here. You will get to hear all about these eager learners, who are about to crack open their first books.

If you’d like to read more about the two former Kololo residents who inspired this project you can go Here.

Thanks to Molly Pitts for caring about these remarkable children, Kololo’s future readers, writers, and dreamers.

steve jobs

admin — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:40:07 +0000

I haven’t read one article about Steve Jobs since he passed. His death has really affected me, my heart dropped and my stomach ached when I heard the news-usually not my thing about celebrities/ceo’s, people I don’t know. But, I’ve been so loyal to his company almost my whole life (the day the Apple IIE came out) and he’s been loyal to me with his innovations and follow through. I sat up last night thinking about what he’s done for organizations like hope by twelve and came to the conclusion that without him there would probably be no social networking, texting, emailing, etc. at the level it’s at right now. Without all those things, we wouldn’t have our name spread around the world. That’s amazing to think. Ten years ago, even five, it would’ve been near impossible to coordinate a girlpod in another city, get word out to everyone to donate to this cause and that, or even have people know who we are. RIP Steve Jobs and thank you!

-molly

another cool mama

admin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:48:21 +0000

Gina is an amazing artist that will be joining us in Ethiopia in November. Read all about how she uses her art to help those in need.

There are only 8 days left to win this fundraiser for an extra $8,000. Please consider donating to bring clean water to Mudula Ethiopia. Click the picture below.

a mudula mama

admin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:32:04 +0000

Be inspired – please donate to the Mudula Water Project and help us win the charity purse!

Read about Meg and what she’s doing to help-we think she’s pretty awesome!

Click on Mudula Mamas to donate!

school is hard

admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:02:52 +0000

“School is so hard.” “School is boring.” “Do I have to go to school?” That is the typical talk of an American teenage girl. They’d much rather be hanging out with friends or doing anything else OTHER then school. Little do they know how lucky they are just to be able to go to school and get some sort of education. Girls around the world would LOVE the opportunity to attend school. They’d much rather be going to school then doing anything else. Just today I read this articleabout a 12 year old girl who shines shoes on the streets of Addis Ababa, competing with the boy shoe shiners, just so she CAN go to school. She earns up to $1.15/day. After three months of hard work, she now can put herself through school. You know what she says about it? “I had to go to school because I want to get knowledge,” said Meskerem. “Knowledge is how you become somebody.” So true. I think back to my school days-I hated school. Now I wish I could do it all over again with this perspective in mind.

-molly
director-hope by twelve

win a trip!

admin — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:45:20 +0000

Mudula Water now has the “2000 Campaign”-the girlpod that raises the most amount of money from now until December 31st will win a free round trip ticket to Ethiopia! Some hope by twelve team members will be traveling to the water project site in Mudula fall of 2011-you could join us!

Tip-Find 200 people to donate $10 or 100 people to donate $20
We know your girlpod can do it!

student sponsorship

admin — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:45:36 +0000

Great news! We are now helping to sponsor school girls in Guatemala through Partners in Development. Read more about our involvement and just who PID is here

mmmm, baked goods!

admin — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:27:18 +0000

Ziona and her friends had a girlpod meeting and decided to hold a bake sale to raise money for Mudula Water. They are a group of 8 year old girls that are so excited to help out girls around the world. Good job girls, can’t wait to taste your treats!

you “like” us!

admin — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:22:30 +0000

Thanks for all the recent “likes” on Facebook! Tell all your friends (and guys for that matter) to like us and send girls our way so they can start changing the world. Boys can be part of girlpods too!

great event!

admin — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:09:35 +0000

Melissa Fay Greene and David Guterson did an amazing job leading a discussion about international adoption. The event was held at the new and wonderful Ethiopian Community Mutual Association. Greene is hilarious-it’s so evident in her new book-check out her website!