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RDL Ethiopia

RDL-Ethiopia officially established the organization for the under privileged children of their community in January of 1997. RDL-Ethiopia was organized as one of the clubs at the Bahir Dar University by group of students who deciding to take their monthly allowance to provide the materials needed to enroll street children into public school and provide them daily tutoring to bring the child up to par with their respective grade level. They also negotiated with the Bahir Dar City Administration to have the city provide rent free government housing for the nine students they were enrolling into school. They further negotiated with the Bahir Dar University administration to provide those nine children with food three times a day after all the university students have been fed during the fiscal school year. (Universities in Ethiopia provide food & dormitory for all students free). Furthermore, when the summer month came when the nine kids were out of school and weren’t being provided food by the university RDL-Ethiopia took measures to ensure to keep the children busy and fed.

RDL Ethiopia is the organization that started it all. The website will soon be online.

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Ethiopian American Youth Initiative

The Ethiopian American Youth Initiative is a nonprofit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America. The Ethiopian American Youth Initiative (EAYI) will be a nation-wide association of Ethiopian and American youth with the intention of promoting Ethiopia in a new light, fostering the importance and knowledge of Ethiopia in culture, history and science and supporting youth-related efforts in Ethiopia. EAYI is a non-political, non-religious youth-based organization which prides itself on being an Ethiopian organization that strives to create a united youth movement for the betterment of Ethiopia.