It is a day of celebration when the community and local church come together to build a house for one of our neediest widows. Mossy Foot provides a carpenter to coordinate the building and we pay for the needed building materials.
Before becoming Executive Director of Mossy Foot Project in Ethiopia, Zebdewos was a high school science teacher, principal, and then school superintendent. He truly understands and values the impact of education and has a real love for students.
FEBRUARY is a month when we especially express our love for others. You, dear partner, have shown great love to our mossy foot patients. Due to your generosity we were able to achieve the following in 2021.
Christmas is a time of great JOY and giving. You, dear Mossy Foot partner, are a purveyor of JOY. Without your generosity, this story that begins bleakly, would not have a joyful ending.
Yes, Ethiopia celebrated the beginning of the New Year of 2014 in September. Ethiopia is one of the few countries in the world with its own calendar, using the Gregorian calendar rather than the Julian calendar that we follow in the Western world.
Recently, the Wolaita Zone government evaluated all 57 NGOs (non-government
organizations) in our province and awarded Mossy Foot a certificate (shown above) for being the top NGO.