Family develops around the dinner table…
or in the age of covid: the computer screen
We’ve seen the way love grows when we spend time together. We invite you to take time with the people you care about to share a little about our Selamta Families.
Host an online gathering on Zoom, Google Hangouts, or Facebook, and get creative:
share a remote meal
play a game
see who can hold a hand-stand the longest
Start fundraising while doing what you love with the people you love!
ask your friends to donate what they would spend going out
Whether it’s the equivalent of coffee, pizza and a movie, or dinner at the hottest spot in town, every donation helps to restore family, dignity and hope.
Seems pretty doable when you break it down, right?
Here's the problem:
A child growing up without a family is never ok
Compounded by extreme poverty, disease and homelessness, a child on the streets of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia becomes another statistic...orphaned by circumstance and left to fend for themselves without love, security or a place to call home. Over 5 million children in Ethiopia are orphaned or abandoned due to extreme poverty and disease.
You're the solution:
Over dinner, you can change the course of a child's life
Selamta Family Project creates new families, Forever Families, for orphaned or abandoned children. We also work with families at-risk of breaking apart to strengthen them so fewer children become orphaned or abandoned. This fall, host a dinner or online fundraiser, share what's happening through Selamta, and develop family in Ethiopia and around your own table.
