Laura's Visit to Abugida

Hello everybody!! I’m Laura, one of the volunteers from the April group and I want to tell you all that this has been one of the best experiences of my life.

To begin with, whilst you are planning the trip, you form your own expectations but then it turns out to be very different, once you really live the experience and see it for yourself it’s such a profound thing. I mean it really touches your heart and I think that anybody who is privileged enough to live in our society or in a developed country should experience a journey like this, so that they realise that we have everything and I mean absolutely EVERYTHING. After you have experienced this you are so grateful for your life, your family and friends, your surroundings and most importantly, something we take for granted, to be able have something to eat whenever you feel like it to get rid of those hunger pangs. It may be difficult to picture it so just imagine what it actually feels like….

I want to encourage you to help in any way you can, all the money you give gets there and thanks to this money lots of children can eat and have an education that their parents could never have imagined and a better future lies ahead for these children. I don’t want to hear the same old excuse as to “whether my money actually gets there or not” because I can assure you that this will be the best money you have ever spent in your life.

And if you are fortunate enough to travel over there and give them a helping hand you will be the luckiest person on earth because words can’t express what you get from being with these people. Best wishes and please be happy with this life.

I would also like to thank all the Mediterranea team for having the guts to fight for these children and what you have achieved is so difficult, please keep up the good work and I’m sure that we will get more and more members. Well done.

PS: the April group has such fond memories of Abugida and in the photo you can see them painting the kitchen.  Many thanks, Laura, Mayte, Teresa and Nacho.

Mikias Needs a Home from Next Monday

We brought Mikias over from Ethiopia last year to enable him to have his arm operated on.  You can read his story here: http://directhelpngo.blogspot.com/2010/06/mikiss-story.html

He has kindly been looked after by a few families during his stay in Mallorca.  We urgently need to find him a new temporary home starting next Monday 16 May.  He is attending BIC school in Magaluf and will need to be dropped off and collected from the school during the week.

If you can help please call Caroline tel 600444320

From Laura, Member of the April Group of Volunteers at Abugida

Hello everybody!! I’m Laura, one of the volunteers from the April group and I want to tell you all that this has been one of the best experiences of my life.


To begin with, whilst you are planning the trip, you form your own expectations but then it turns out to be very different, once you really live the experience and see it for yourself it’s such a profound thing. I mean it really touches your heart and I think that anybody who is privileged enough to live in our society or in a developed country should experience a journey like this, so that they realise that we have everything and I mean absolutely EVERYTHING. After you have experienced this you are so grateful for your life, your family and friends, your surroundings and most importantly, something we take for granted, to be able have something to eat whenever you feel like it to get rid of those hunger pangs. It’s difficult to hear about it so just imagine what it actually feels like….

I want to encourage you to help in any way you can, all the money gets there and thanks to this money lots of children can eat and have an education that their parents could never have imagined and a better future lies ahead for these children. I don’t want to hear the same old excuse as to “whether my money actually gets there or not” because I can assure you that any money you contribute will be the best you have ever spent in your life.

And if you are fortunate enough to travel over there and give them a helping hand you will be the luckiest person on earth because words can’t express what you get from being with these people. Best wishes and please be happy with this life.

I would also like to thank all the Mediterranea team for having the guts to fight for these children and what you have achieved is so difficult, please keep up the good work and I’m sure that we will get more and more members. Well done.

PS: the April group has such fond memories of Abugida and in the photo you can see them painting the kitchen.

Many thanks, Laura, Mayte, Teresa and Nacho.

Things that Make it All Worthwhile

We are not speaking about a film from Ana Belen but the sensation we felt when we received the photos of these five children, the five new ‘bombones’ from the nursery in Abugida who will already be veterans by the time the other 39 children start in July.

Only 17 days have passed since we last saw them and already they are different children.  The 18-month twins, Kalid and Karim were not even able to sit up and the 11-month twins Kalkidan and Yabsira were like a couple of raisins.  Any inopportune infection could have taken them.  But instead, here they are, demonstrating the same energy and enthusiasm for life as any other child in the world.  All children need is for someone to give them an opportunity in their own country.

Dagem is also very well.  He refuses to sleep in a bed and only wants to sleep in someone’s arms, which is a sign that he is interacting well and is happy.  All the children in the nursery want to play with him and he’s always in the middle of everything.

Today we are even more contented that usual having received this news from Abugida.  Thank you again to everyone, without your support this could not be possible.

PS Zerihun doesn’t have the correct date set in the camera, it is neither the Ethiopian date nor ours.