Make a Difference by Shopping with your Friends
You can help the children Fresh and Green Academy when you shop! There are 3 ways that benefit the Academy directly, including for the first time, the opportunity to buy crafts from the Mothers' Cooperative! Fresh & Green is on Etsy! You can now buy some of the...
Shop the Mothers Cooperative and Feed a Family.
The Fresh and Green Mothers Cooperative has been expanding and the quality of their items is top notch! Eighty-one women in the neighborhood of Kotebe in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have changed their lives by joining the Mothers Cooperative. The women not only create...
Fair Trade Tuesday Brings Hope To Our Mothers!
Help the mothers of Fresh and Green by buying an item made at the school! Shop our online store here! The students’ mothers come to Fresh and Green Academy at least once per week to work in the Mothers Cooperative. You’ll find them working in the newly created looming...
Online Shop Announcement of F&G Mother’s Cooperative
The Friends of Fresh and Green Academy, announces the launch of its brand new online shop called; “Mothers Cooperative”. This new shop, headed under the brand title “Fashion Feeds Ethiopia” offers its’ visitors the opportunity to buy hand woven items made by members...
Help Us Prevent Human Trafficking
Re posted from the Friends of Fresh and Green blog http://friendsoffreshandgreen.blogspot.com/ Since this was written we lost another very bright young student. Goday (pictured here) is the mother of one of our students, who recently went to Beirut to work. Her...
Almaz’s Story of Hope, Fate and Personal Independence
Like many of the mothers in the Cooperative, Almaz left her small village of Zebich for a better life in Addis. She was only 16 years old and grateful for her luck when she found work as a housekeeper for a wealthy man and his family. However, being hired as a...
Workay’s Story Of Her Life In The “City Of Opportunity”
Workay was born 35 years ago in the village of Gatu, about 260 km from Addis Ababa. She only has use of one of her legs, the other was crippled in childhood, most likely by polio. There's no way to know, of course. Workay can't remember a life where she could walk....
A Real Family, The Sisterhood of the Mothers’ Cooperative
The Mothers’ Cooperative is a large and loving “extended family” for 90 women who have children attending Fresh and Green Academy. They come to the school three or four days a week to take classes in hygiene and child care, and to share their knowledge, wisdom and...
Student Mothers Empowered To Earn Their Own Money
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- May 2010 Thanks to your donations and support, there are twenty-two student mothers now earning money courtesy of Fresh and Green Academy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. For many, it is the first time in their lives they have been able to earn money...