2021-07-06 16:43:18
The sight of a baby girl suckling on the breast of her dead mother changed the course of Abebech Gobena's life forever.
The year was 1980 and Ethiopia lay in the grip of what would become one of the most devastating famines in its history.
She was on a pilgrimage to a holy site in the north-east region of the country when she came across the dead mother and her baby, lying amid a sea of people who were starving to death.
She distributed the only thing she had to other victims, a loaf of bread and five liters of holy water, and brought the child along with another orphan to her home in Addis Ababa. In one year, she brought 21 children to her home.
Today, AGOHELMA, the association she founded, provides various services in addition to the orphanage itself.
In June 2021, Abebech's health worsened from COVID-19 and she was hospitalized at St. Paul's Hospital in Addis Ababa. However, she died from the complications on 4 July 2021.
Sources - CNN | Wikipedia
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