by Andrea Gaines | Jul 21, 2016 | Love Tree
We are GROWING!! And we need YOU to help us GROW our Tree of Love. Our school in Hawassa will be expanding to close to 100 children in September and we are partnering with an organization in Debre Markos helping rescue children from the streets and from trafficking....
by Andrea Gaines | Apr 18, 2016 | Education, Kids, Making a difference, Money, Non-profits, School, Water Filters
(Image courtesy of www.freedigitalphotos.net) We all have a “why” for what we do. We get married because we fall in love. We go to college because we hope to get a good job. We go to work because we need to provide for ourselves and our family. We eat because we’re...
by Andrea Gaines | Apr 10, 2016 | Making a difference, Non-profits, Projects, School, Uncategorized
On any given day any one of us could walk out our door and witness pain, hurt, loneliness, homelessness, abuse, hunger, disparity, and a multitude of other social and economic human disasters. So much can be done to help and reach out. The wonderful thing is that...
by Andrea Gaines | Apr 6, 2016 | Making a difference, Projects, Uncategorized, Volunteers
If you spend any amount of time with me, you’ll find out quickly how much I LOVE Ethiopia. My family was blessed 8 years ago when we adopted our beautiful Ethiopian son, Messay. Even as a child, I knew that I would do missionary/humanitarian work in Africa....
by Andrea Gaines | Apr 4, 2016 | Kids, Projects, School, Volunteers
My first concrete memory of Mom is of her reading to my little brother and me. We were sitting on the rust-colored orange carpet of the living room with our backs against a cupboard. Vince and I were tucked into either side of Mom while she read from Aesop’s Fables....