This is Daisy, one of the small but growing herd of dairy cows which now provides a regular supply of milk to around 200 orphaned and internally displaced street kids of Tigray’s capital, Mekelle.
Some of you will have already heard of our wonderful local partner organisation Keradion, which runs the orphan feeding programme from small premises in the city. Desta Ethiopia is proud to have enabled this self-sustaining initiative through generous funding from the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
This is Mhretab Desbele, Keradion’s accountant, with one of the new calves. Mhretab works for a local brewery by day and volunteers for Keradion in his spare time.
Desta Ethiopia and Keradion are working together to provide at least one basic meal a day for each street child. This liberates them from spiralling downward in a life of begging and petty crime, and gives them a future by enabling them to go to school.
Keeping the dairy going is a long-term committment. Costs include provision of cattle-housing, fodder and grazing, milking, transport and veterinary care. Please help us in any way you can to keep the dairy up and running, and strengthening young bones!
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