Selamta Family Project
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The Selamta Family Project is an all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
providing secure homes, medical intervention and education opportunities to orphaned and abandoned children.
"Selamta, which is funded by the Human Capital Foundation, seeks to help Ethiopian
orphans, especially those who have lost their parents to the AIDS
pandemic. Children receive clothing, food, medical attention and school tuition at the Selamta Children’s Center before joining one of seven families, each of which hosts about eight children brought together by the organization."
"set around the Human Capital Foundation's first humanitarian visit to Ethiopia and the inception of the Selamta project, focuses on four volunteers each with their own unique story as they travel in to the heart of the AIDS orphan crisis in Ethiopia." This film later became an Official Selection for the 2009 Atlanta Film Festival
under the African/African American, Georgia Films, Human Rights, and World Showcase categories.
students and published by "Anemone Publishing Co. is a collection of first-person stories about the lives of various kids in Selamta. "The book features quotations from interviews with children and ambassadors involved with the project." "The project aims not only at delivering these children's message to readers but also to sustain the children's lives. The proceeds from each book purchased will feed a child in Ethiopia for a month."
Student Jessica Marie Chapman. "For two months Chapman lived at an orphanage in Addis Ababba
run by the Selamta Family Project." "Nearly every day of her visit included an art class" with the children. Upon her return "she had 21 linoleum blocks, with which she created prints for" an exhibition "of artwork created by a group of those orphans during her stay in the country." The exhibit made appearances at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
, Dartmouth College, Latham Memorial Library, and Hampshire College
with the intent that "wherever the exhibit goes, it will bring donations to Selamta."
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
providing secure homes, medical intervention and education opportunities to orphaned and abandoned children.
"Selamta, which is funded by the Human Capital Foundation, seeks to help Ethiopian
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
orphans, especially those who have lost their parents to the AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
pandemic. Children receive clothing, food, medical attention and school tuition at the Selamta Children’s Center before joining one of seven families, each of which hosts about eight children brought together by the organization."
Key partners
- Worldwide Orphans Foundation
- Packard Foundation
- SEEDSSEEDSSEEDS is a voluntary organisation registered under the Societies Act of India....
- Right to PlayRight to PlayRight To Play is an international humanitarian organization that uses sport and play programs to improve health, develop life skills, and foster peace for children and communities in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the world...
- Kettering FoundationKettering FoundationThe Kettering Foundation is an American non-partisan research foundation founded in 1927 by Charles F. Kettering. The foundation publishes books and periodicals, employs research fellows, and organizes public forums on policy in order to answer the question: "what does it take for democracy to...
- Ethiopian Government
- Ethiopian Hospital (Bettel)
- John Hopkins
- Ethiopian Police
- Ethiopian Embassy
Into Abyssinia
A documentaryDocumentary
A documentary is a creative work of non-fiction, including:* Documentary film, including television* Radio documentary* Documentary photographyRelated terms include:...
"set around the Human Capital Foundation's first humanitarian visit to Ethiopia and the inception of the Selamta project, focuses on four volunteers each with their own unique story as they travel in to the heart of the AIDS orphan crisis in Ethiopia." This film later became an Official Selection for the 2009 Atlanta Film Festival
Atlanta Film Festival
The Atlanta Film Festival is an Academy Award qualifying, international film festival held in Atlanta, Georgia. Started in 1976 and occurring every April, the festival shows a diverse range of independent films, including genre films such as horror and sci-fi...
under the African/African American, Georgia Films, Human Rights, and World Showcase categories.
An Unlikely Family
A book written by two DartmouthDartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
students and published by "Anemone Publishing Co. is a collection of first-person stories about the lives of various kids in Selamta. "The book features quotations from interviews with children and ambassadors involved with the project." "The project aims not only at delivering these children's message to readers but also to sustain the children's lives. The proceeds from each book purchased will feed a child in Ethiopia for a month."
Selamta Comfort Doll Project
"Mia Brown, a Neighbor to Neighbor AmeriCorps member at Champlain Valley Agency on Aging (CVAA), designed the Selamta Comfort Doll Project after spending over six months at the Selamta Children’s Home in Ethiopia." Elders from CVAA "created dolls that were dark-skinned to look like the children." These dolls were sent "to children in Ethiopia that have lost their parents most likely due to AIDS and are now part of the Selamta Children’s Home Project." "Over 225 dolls were created."Children of Selamta
A 2009 Student Project by Hampshire CollegeHampshire College
Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1965 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts...
Student Jessica Marie Chapman. "For two months Chapman lived at an orphanage in Addis Ababba
Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa is the capital city of Ethiopia...
run by the Selamta Family Project." "Nearly every day of her visit included an art class" with the children. Upon her return "she had 21 linoleum blocks, with which she created prints for" an exhibition "of artwork created by a group of those orphans during her stay in the country." The exhibit made appearances at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is New Hampshire's only academic medical center and is headquartered on a campus in the heart of the Upper Connecticut River Valley, in Lebanon, New Hampshire....
, Dartmouth College, Latham Memorial Library, and Hampshire College
Hampshire College
Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1965 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts...
with the intent that "wherever the exhibit goes, it will bring donations to Selamta."