From the streets...
Into Family!
We help meet the basic and eternal needs of those living in poverty. We aim to break the cycles of this tragic issue by pointing them towards Jesus Christ and providing the resources needed to help them be self-sustainable.
Make Your Mark is reaching out to vulnerable children and creating safe environments of love, encouragement, training, discipleship and life rehabilitation in order to tap into the great potential that is inside of each child.
Make Your Mark House
A day center for street children that provides breakfast, lunch, counseling, Bible teachings, showers, and most importantly a safe place where they can find their worth. The big idea is to create an environment where a desire to change is birthed in them. Our goal for each child is different as some will reintegrate with their birth families, some will receive job training and others will move into our Placing the Lonely in Families Transformation home.
A day center for street children that provides breakfast, lunch, counseling, Bible teachings, showers, and most importantly a safe place where they can find their worth. The big idea is to create an environment where a desire to change is birthed in them. Our goal for each child is different as some will reintegrate with their birth families, some will receive job training and others will move into our Placing the Lonely in Families Transformation home.
The PLF Transformation Home
These homes are family-based care where an Ethiopian husband and wife have committed to being mom and dad to four transformed street children. This is a family environment where children go to school, eat dinner at the table, pray together as a family and get an example of a family to take into the future with them.
Domestic Adoption & Orphan Summit
We are currently working with the local church and other NGO’s to train and equip Ethiopian families in adoption. This is a new idea to this culture, but we are highly encouraged as God is having us meet families that have this desire. MYM is part of an annual Orphan Summit in Ethiopia that is training and equipping the local people in biblical orphan care and empowering the local church to care for the orphan. Why domestic??? Let’s look at the Ethiopia orphan crisis, as we said above there are 5.5 million orphans in Ethiopia. It would take 125 million USD and 2500 years for international adoption to be the solution. There are 80 million people in Ethiopia; if only 6.5% of the population would take in a child, there wouldn't be any orphans in Ethiopia, this has to be taught and this is what we’re teaching.
Keeping Kids Home-KKH
This is MYM's street kid/orphan prevention where we come alongside extremely poor families to empower them to keep their children in the best place they could be; at home. We provide educational needs, family counseling, food needs for those with disabilities and work towards each family becoming a part of a Savings and Credit group with their peers. This will empower them to self-sustainability. We also provide family consul and teach God-centered family values to strengthen the family’s core.
As you can see, Make Your Mark Ethiopia attacks the street kid and orphan problem in Addis from all angles...there is care for existing street children, but there is also street kid and orphan prevention through the Keeping Kids Home Initiative.
