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Urgent and sustained action is needed to provide real homes for children left abandoned by the AIDS pandemic in Ethiopia. The alternative of sending orphaned children into over-crowded and under-resourced orphanages is a dangerous stop-gap. Ignoring or warehousing a generation of children orphaned by AIDS are not solutions. Because of extreme poverty and the stigma of AIDS, very few of our children can ever hope to be welcomed by extended families in their home country. The vast majority of Ethiopia's orphans are exiled into a childhood of desperation, discrimination and fear.

If these children are not somehow returned to the lifelong support of a truly caring family home, the stage is set for a continuation of the ignorance, extreme poverty and despair that is the breeding ground for social turmoil and AIDS.

One hundred percent of funds invested in Selamta go directly to to creating new families that will love and support children as they grow to become productive Ethiopian citizens. Selamta programs aim to provide children with safe, loving care today and a thorough preparation for life on their own tomorrow.

A small investment yields enormous returns in the lives of children who would otherwise be abandoned, homeless and without the love or care of a family

• $100 will provide HIV, HEP A/B and childhood vaccinations for 5 children.
• $120 will pay a year's full day school tuition, uniform, backpack and books for one child.
• $500 will provide a month's nutritious food for the children and staff at the Selamta Children's Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• $1000 will restock our clothing and shoe supplies for our in-coming children.
• $3,000 will establish and sponsor a loving family home for an entire family of eight children and two women.