Nov 22, 2014 | Helping Ethiopian Children, Kids Help Kids, Romans Girls
“In forty minutes, we raised enough money to support the education, school supplies, transportation and school lunches of Mahlet, our adopted student. That’s crazy!” said one OLS student. “It is incredible that we have changed the possibilities of one girl’s future,”...
Nov 15, 2014 | Helping Ethiopian Children, Kids Help Kids, Romans Girls
I just recently started homeschooling when my mother showed me a video of Rahel, a young Ethiopian girl who was given the opportunity to go to school through the Ethiopian Family Fund. Rahel was standing up in front of quite a few people speaking about how thankful...
Jul 28, 2014 | Activities, Dr. Rick Hodes, Events, Fundraising, Helping Ethiopian Children, Humanitarian Travel, Kids Help Kids, Life Saving Surgeries, Recognition, Success Stories
Laguna Beach High School Junior Dean Hodes, has travelled around the world quite a bit already, and he’s only 16. He participated in a summer theater program in Telluride, Colorado for many years that toured internationally, including countries such as Turkey,...
Jan 19, 2014 | Dr. Rick Hodes, Events, Fundraising, Helping Ethiopian Children, Honors, Humanitarian Travel, Kids Help Kids, Life Saving Surgeries, Mending Kids, Recognition, Success Stories, TV and Media
Mending Kids International and Ethiopian Family Fund head pediatric heart mission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from December 30th, 2013 to January 6, 2014. See blog and pictures in the following links: http://mki-blog.blogspot.com/2014/01/40-boxes-by-isabelle-fox.html...
Sep 26, 2013 | Events, Fundraising, Helping Ethiopian Children, Life Saving Surgeries, Mending Kids
On August 24, 2013, EFF and MKI hosted a fundraiser at the home of Marla and Dan Hodes in Laguna Beach, California. $10,000 was raised to go towards the pediatric heart mission in January 2014 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. These surgeries will save the lives of 25...
Sep 26, 2013 | Helping Ethiopian Children, Success Stories
Ethiopian twins, Kidane and Yalalem, have had successful hand surgeries in Los Angeles and are now recovering with their host family in Malibu, CA. They are also attending school in Malibu. Kidane and Yalalem will return to Ethiopia in...
Jul 18, 2013 | Helping Ethiopian Children, Success Stories
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Feb 13, 2013 | Dr. Rick Hodes, Featured Home Page, Helping Ethiopian Children, Life Saving Surgeries
Dr. Rick Hodes, M.D. received his medical training in Rochester and Baltimore. He was honored with a Fulbright scholarship to teach in Addis Ababa in 1985 and has spent the last two decades in Africa saving lives. Dr. Rick, as he is affectionately called in...
Feb 7, 2013 | AIDS Clinic and Women's Program, Featured Home Page, Helping Ethiopian Children
EFF is helping to support an organization named Bete – Se’ida in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia which has two projects: we help run an orphanage for children and babies who have AIDS or are HIV positive and we help young women who are HIV positive and have young...
Feb 6, 2013 | Dr. Rick Hodes, Helping Ethiopian Children, Humanitarian Travel, Life Saving Surgeries, Mending Kids, Success Stories
The Ethiopian Family Fund joined Mending Kids International on it’s third pediatric cardiac mission trip. December 26, 2012 – January 6, 2013 EFF and MKI returned to the Cardiac Center of Ethiopia (CHFE) run by Dr. Belay Abegaz. CHFE is a free-standing...
Jan 19, 2013 | Helping Ethiopian Children, Success Stories
The Hodes family is excited to host 12 year old twins from Ethiopia when they will have foot and hand surgery at Shriners Hospital in Los Angeles, CA. The boys were born with webbed hands and feet. “We are so excited for them to come and live with us…I...
Jan 19, 2013 | Helping Ethiopian Children, Humanitarian Travel, Kids Help Kids
Dean, Matt and Carly Hodes, and Anthony and Michael Bruno are young teens who spent their Christmas and New Years holiday (2012/2013) in Ethiopia helping the children of Ethiopia. The teens spent their mornings in the hospital comforting children who were about to...