RDL Ethiopia
In October 2000, a group of engineering students in Ethiopia who wanted to help the street children around their university—Bahir Dar University — established an organization called ReDefining Life or RDL-Ethiopia. These students provided stationery materials, school uniform and tutoring advice to nine kids once they enrolled them into the local public school. However, it was difficult for the kids to attend school regularly while living on the streets.
The following year RDL-Ethiopia asked and was granted a one-room government house for the kids. 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 months came when the nine kids were out of school and weren’t being provided food by the university, RDL-Ethiopia took measures to ensure that the children were kept busy and fed.The kids lived, studied and did everything in this one room house.
