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	A Great Charity Walk Program has come to Stage-Hawassa
	Mary Joy Aid through Development has been working on Private-Public-Community Partnership Move, and local resource mobilization in country and abroad since the last three years. It started here in the metropolis and gradually scaled up to the regions. Volunteer artists and mass media professionals have been the main facilitators and implementers throughout the whole process, and to this effect a walk program was held in the last November, 2008 in Addis Ababa, where 12,000 people representing different bodies have participated. The main purpose of this program is to create an opportunity for citizens, other charity organizations and individuals to realize their social responsibilities and moral obligations in supporting those most in need. The fund obtained from the program aims to address the basic social and psychological problems of senior citizens and children through establishing multi-generational center. The center is believed to be a place, where various historical, cultural and traditional heritages, experiences or practices being properly documented, shared and kept for the next generation. What is equally important with this program is it helps to catalyze, integrate unorganized efforts of individuals, organizations, the business people, and local community in reaching vulnerable children, senior citizens and others in an impacted oriented manner. By and large, it aims to ensure the enhancement of volunteerism and genuine community participation in poverty reduction. In a similar fashion, a second charity walk program is coming soon. Preparations have been finalized and this special event with a theme “I Walk to Discharge My Responsibility” will take place on April 05, 2009 in Hawassa City, the Capital of Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Regional State. It is understood that more than 20,000 people will participate in the program, and as usual Mary Joy and volunteer artists committee are in charge with facilitating and coordinating the program. Thus, we cordially invite you to participate in this program, encourage and support these communal efforts in mitigating the challenges of vulnerable members of the society. Please get involved!!
	Be Part of Great Charity Walk!!
	Mary Joy and group of humanitarian activists of Ethiopian popular artists and Media professionals organized GREAT CHARITY WALK with the theme of “I Walk To Discharge My Responsibility” to be held on November 17, 2008, in Addis Ababa. More than 20,000 citizens (high government officials, elders, children, business communities, artists, civil servants, police, colleges and university students, etc) are expected to join the Great Charity Walk event. The main objective of this Great Charity walk is to establish multi-generational center which will serve children, youth, and elders in Addis Ababa . In thinking of the great opportunity that you would have then to discharge the social responsibility towards vulnerable children and poor elders, we kindly invite you to actively join us at the Great Charity walk in the morning (7:30AM) of the mentioned date above. The only precondition to be part of this Great and Unique Event through purchasing T-shirt produced for this purpose with tokenism amount 30 Ethiopian Birr each. T-shirt is available at: • Mary Joy head offices located around Kazainchs -on the way to Enderase hotel • Mary Joy Kolfe Keraniyo and Gulelie Program Coordination Office located around Asko -back of Tikur Abay shoe factory, • Plan – Mary Joy Partnership project Coordination Office located around Ferensay-kela-on the way to Eyesus church) • Ethiopian Writers Association office located in front of Addis Ababa Stadium IBM building first floor Organizations, business enterprises, humanitarians, and other interested ones can purchase the T-shirt for themselves and their employees, sponsor students, workers, poor persons, youths, and practically demonstrate the solidarity and partnership to our beloved, however, deprived children and elder persons. Mary Joy would like address its invitation towards every citizen, interested individuals, organizations, business firms, government bodies, religious institutions etc to be part of this great event.
	Launched, Donation Week
	Addis Ababa: Mary Joy Aid through Development has announced *donation week* beginning September 6, 2008 on the occasion of Ethiopian New year which will continue throughout the year. Since 2006 the organization has made great effort to re-direct Ethiopians giving culture to more impact oriented and managed to win benevolent heart of many Ethiopians. In the previous year, over 1,500 Ethiopians buy-in the ‘*Ethiopians to Ethiopians'* initiative and responded positively towards the support for orphans and poor elders. Consequently, 32 elder OVCs and unemployed youths have got free Scholarship from different colleges and universities that worth over 288,300 Birr. In addition, during the same year 436 orphan children with the family members of 2,180 have got Sponsorship from benevolent Ethiopians heart that passionate the children for their future career. Every year, the child and elders sponsors transfer over 627,840 Birr. The in-kind contributions are gradually scaling up and donations of used cloths, stationery materials, etc have been collected and distributed to Orphan and Vulnerable children and elder peoples which worth 120,000 Birr(In monetary value). In this opportunity we are very much pleased to express our sincere gratefulness to all of you who have heard our call for support and positively responded to donate for orphan children and poor elders in our community. In continuing with this initiative, Mary Joy calls up on your passionate and caring response towards the diverse problems of orphans and destitute elders by donating used cloths, furniture, equipments, money, household utensils stationery materials used shoes, sport materials and others which you may believe important. “Mary Joy is ……Proud of….Thrust in…. & …..Work together with……….. You”
	Kenya 's and Ethiopia 's First Ladies Visit
	First lady to Kenya Miss. Lucy Kibaki and first Lady to Ethiopia W/ro Azeb Mesfin paid a visit to Mary Joy on March 2005. During their Visit, they have been briefed about the overall activity of the organization by Sr. Zebider (Executive Director of the Organization).

Observance of Mary Joy Sponsorship Day

Mary Joy has celebrated sponsored children's day, 2 nd March, 2007. It is the first experience for the Organization and the event was accompanied by the National Celebration for victory of Adwa.

Free Scholarship Awarded to Vulnerable Youths

21Vulnerable children and youths have got free scholarship opportunities as given by various training institutions and Colleges. The fields of Study's include nursing, Vocational Skill, tourism and catering. The institutions are Central Health College , Mechane Jesus Vocational and Technical School , Lion Tourism and Hotel Institute, and Demeke Catering Training Center.