Life Center Ethiopia exists to transform the lives of widows, orphans, and others at-risk through gospel-centered education and training. LCE was founded in 2013 when Mulu Woldetinsea returned to her home country of Ethiopia and saw with fresh eyes the poverty in the capital city of Addis Ababa. She returned to the US and began the process of establishing a child sponsorship program in Ethiopia. Since then, LCE has sponsored over 200 children giving them food, clothing, access to tutoring, counseling and so much more. In 2021, 8 of our sponsored kids were the first in our program to graduate from University or Technical School. This was truly a milestone in our organization. In 2019 we partnered with Touch of Love International to begin business training and microloans for widows. We have provided training for over 100 women and have given loans to 70 women to begin small businesses. These small businesses have helped feed and care for their families as well as empowering the women to feel valued in a society that often doesn't value them.
We seek to transform the lives of widows, orphans and others at risk through child sponsorships and gospel-centered education and training.
Life Center Ethiopia was founded in 2013 when our Executive Director and Founder visited her home country of Ethiopia for the first time after leaving. She left Ethiopia is 2008 and lived with her two small children in a refugee camp in Kenya before being granted assylum in Denver, Colorado. Her husband, Tamrat Layne was a former Prime Minister of Ethiopia and was falsely imprisoned in 2007. Mulu lived in the US as a single mom, basically a widow, until her husband was released from prison and was allowed to join his family in Denver. Mulu and Tamrat had pledged their lives to making Ethiopia better by alleviating poverty. After they both converted to Christianity and Mulu returned to Ethiopia, she knew that the way to change the country was not through the government, but through the people. By loving them and showing them the love of God, and by practically meeting financial and physical needs of children through sponsorship and widows through business training and microloans. Because of Life Center Ethiopia, hundreds of families have been given the opportunity to obtain an education and start small businesses. In 2021, eight of our original sponsored children graduated from university or vocational school and are employed in ways they never dreamed possible!
Organization name
Life Center Ethiopia
other names
LCE
2012
Tax id (EIN)
46-1126822
Category
Food, Agriculture & Nutrition, Youth Development
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
6366 S HARRISON CTAddis Ababa, Addis Ababa, ET
Sekota, Amhara, ET