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Welcome to FICDO's May 2022 newsletter. We hope that you and your loved ones are keeping well.  This newsletter provides highlights of our activities in the past four weeks.  As always we value your support and feedback.   


Trustee and Overseas Coordinator
 

Annual Tree Planting in Fitche
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It is that time of the year...July is fast approaching...The Annual Tree Planting Campaign in Fitche Town, held under the banner “Towards Green and Tidy Fitche”, brings together members of our communities, the Diaspora and friends of Fitche.  This year, the 4th edition, is scheduled for Sunday July 10.
 
Last year's event drew dignitaries such as the Czech Ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union.  We hope this year's event to be even bigger and better.  If you happen to be in Ethiopia, mark your Calendar

Promoting Community Self-help
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We try to use local resources and produce, as much as we can, for our community-run kitchen.  Our Feeding Centre serves 100 orphans and/or children whose parents are struggling to put food on the table.  We also support elderlies with no family, from the same kitchen. We are grateful to Fitche Town Municipal Administration for their continued support.  

Visit by Diaspora 
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We are grateful to one of FICDO's board members, award-winning poet and journalist Abera Lemma, who organised a trip to Fitche (our project site) for his diaspora friends.  Local hotelier Girum Atnafu looked after our guests (including children under FICDO's care and volunteers) numbering over 100.  The visit turned out to be an exciting day!  That is community spirit at its best.

New Book
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Adel Ben Harhara (https://www.adelbenharhara.com) has written an incredible book "To Have Nothing" where he talks about his exploits growing up in Addis Ababa (and later migrating to Yemen) as a Yemeni-Ethiopian whose father (a wealthy Yemeni) died and left him living on the streets fending for his life. Adel, who lives in Canada now, tells his personal story in a way that entertains, motivates and and inspires readers. 

Adel will be donating the proceeds of his books to orphanages in both Yemen and Ethiopia to support children who are faced with growing up without parental love and guidance. We encourage all our supporters to order your copy from amazon.
Thank you!
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We are are grateful to our trusted partner, Liffey Valley Vineyard Dublin and private supporters for their ongoing support that enabled us maintain our services to our community.  We are also grateful to Mel Tewahade from Infinity Retirement Solutions Inc (www.infrs.com), for his and his company's incredible generosity in supporting fifty children over the past few months.  Members of our community continue to give their valuable time and expertise and other resources. Thank you and may God bless you abundantly for enabling us enable our communities!
Want to make a difference in peoples' lives?
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You can be part of our exciting projects and make a real difference in peoples' lives.  Just twenty euro a month can transform a child's life by covering the cost of meals and other expenses required to keep the child in school for a month.  Twelve Euro a month can provide life-saving meals for a month for an elderly with no family.  You can also empower a young girl/woman by supporting her get skills training or start a small business.  You can contribute ideas, support us with your expertise and prayers. There is a lot we can do together.  You can call us or give a one-off donation through the GoFundMe campaign that we created last year for our Education Program.  To learn more, please contact us at fikirintegratedcdo@gmail.com.  Thank you.
About FICDO
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FICDO - Fikir Integrated Community Development Organisation is a board-led and volunteer-run community organisation registered as a local non-profit (registration number 4207) in Ethiopia in June 2019 in accordance with the Civil Society Organizations proclamation no. 1113/2019.  The head office is in the town of Fitche, central Ethiopia, where the organisation also operates.   The word Fikir, that makes up the name, literally translates to ‘love’ in one of the Ethiopian languages and represents one of the organisation’s core values.  Our vision is to build a society where the physiological and psychosocial needs of all persons are met so that they may live a wholesome life.  FICDO' mission is to empower communities through awareness creation on various social issues, and to tap into existing positive community values and channel it into sustainable humanitarian and development efforts through social inclusion projects.
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