 To learn more about the efforts of a motivated team of people who are focusing their resources—prayer, personal involvement, and finances—toward helping the children of the village of Adami Tulu obtain a good education, good nutrition, good healthcare, and Godly instruction, please visit the Adami Tulu Project web-site. As they say, “We know it’s a daunting task. But if you are up for the challenge, we promise you your life will be forever changed.”
Wandi
Unlike most 5-year-olds, at an age when life is care-free, playful, and a fun exploration of the surrounding world, life for 5-year-old Wandi has not been characterized by such child-like innocence. Rather, growing up in Adami Tulu, Ethiopia, Wandi has experienced more hardship and pain than many adults would ever come to know. Wandi was born into a family that struggled to provide the most essential needs and failed to exercise the most basic rights that define our humanity. In addition to the inability to find enough food to feed everyone, Wandi and his four other siblings have felt the sting of rejection and abandonment as their father, addicted to alcohol, abandoned all responsibilities of providing for and loving his family.
Wandi's mother is now left to care for all five children with no outside help in a poverty stricken community.
However, Wandi now has received a new found hope with the loving support of Lifesong, by attaining an education, previously impossible, and receiving two meals every day, previously absent. Wandi has become strong and healthy as a result of the feeding program and also flourished in school. He now experiences love and care from his teachers and other mentors supporting his education, which helps to fill the void of an absent father. Against all odds, Wandi's hope for a better life has been restored.
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