Help Selamta Create New Families

Sustainable Change and Social Renewal

The Selamta Project is an innovative community-based model for creating permanent, independent families in regions ravaged by AIDS, poverty and despair. Selamta changes the lives of orphaned and vulnerable children, marginalized women and the communities that surround them, with a low-cost, scaleable system that creates sustainable change and social renewal.
 

Meaning of Selamta-A Note from House Sponsor Matthew Donovan M.D.

Blog Author: Carol Foster | Source: Selamta | June 21, 2010

For each of us, there are certain of life’s events which bring us close to ultimate truths.  For myself, having recently been diagnosed with head and neck cancer, I have found the essence of what is important and as said so aptly by one of my cousins, the essence of life boils down to “family, family, family”. 

My wife Anne and I have one biologic and three adopted children.  Through this we have realized that the feeling of family is not limited by blood and so it is that this bond has been extended to our Selamta family. Composed of a mother, an auntie and nine orphaned children, their simple home (by our standards) is filled with love.

February 18, 2010 by Carol Foster | comments (2) | permalink | Bookmark and Share

 

The Selamta Project
The AIDS pandemic and extreme poverty have created a perfect storm for countries in sub-saharan Africa and other developing regions around the world. Understand the challenges of repairing a social fabric ripped apart by adversity, and Selamta's effort to create new families with hope for the future.

Selamta Children's Center
The Selamta Children's Center is not an orphanage. It is an environment of love and respect, where children are reunited with lost loved ones, and welcomed into a large, happy and successful family. Learn how Selamta weaves orphans, the vulnerable and the homeless, into a loving and stable new home.

Selamta Family Homes
Children need the strength and support of a life-long family to realize their potential and become responsible, productive citizens. See how Selamta creates new families, where once-discarded women become beloved moms and aunties, to newly united brothers and sisters.

Meet our Families
Selamta's first constellation of eleven family homes is located in Bethel, an emerging suburb of Addis Abbaba. Our Moms are thriving, and their children are happy, healthy and at the top of their classes academically. Meet the wonderful Selamta families in Bethel.

Help Selamta Grow
Selamta offers an opportunity to make a grass-roots difference in the lives of children, families and communities devastated by AIDS and extreme poverty. Learn about volunteering in the U.S., and traveling to Ethiopia to work directly with our children and families

Invest in Selamta
Selamta is a transformational program, that lifts orphans from the streets and creates new families filled with opportunity and promise. See how you can literally change lives with your generous contributions