EFF is working with an organization named “Mending Kids” to help Dr. Rick Hodes find host families for kids that need life saving surgeries.  The host families will take care of a child as he/she recovers from surgery.  This is a wonderful way to help these kids gain strength so they can begin a new [...]

Dean Hodes, age 11,  nephew of Dr. Rick Hodes and son of EFF founder Marla Hodes, traveled with an international theatre group, Mudd Butts International, based out of Telluride, Colorado to live and do theatre with Ethiopian students in Wondo Genet , a small village 6 hours out of Addis Ababa.  The Telluride thespians raised [...]

Jessa Derania, a young humanitarian woman who has worked in Kenya, has just arrived back in the US after visiting Roman’s girls and spending time with Dr. Rick Hodes.  See what Jessa has to say to the sponsors of the 19 little girls going to school now. Dear Friends, I recently returned from a month [...]

Bernanu Haptu An eight year old Ethiopian boy has successfully completed spine surgery at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles.  Sixty suppporters gathered together Saturday night, November 14 at the Hodes’ home,  to celebrate his new life and to hear host family, Jim and Caroline Nicol, give a moving talk on Bernanu’s journey and their journey [...]

UPDATE ON DEAN’S TRAINING Dean has been training diligently to raise money to bring a child to the United States for surgery.  The bike ride will take place in March 2011. Dean Hodes has announced his bar mitzvah project. At  age 12, he will bicycle from Laguna Beach, CA to San Diego, CA, 60 miles [...]