Three weeks ago, Victoria, Stefi and I returned from Ethiopia. It was my first visit to the Abugida school we have in the outskirts of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. After driving south for about half an hour, we took a left hand turn and drove up a very bumpy muddy road which made me doubt that ...
Our friend, Mikias, who is spending time in Mallorca, Spain for treatment of Chronic Osteomyelitis (what a simple name for a disease with such a long and complicated treatment) was able to spend a couple of hours in the Mediterranean Sea today. He did not want to get out of the healing waters. His father, ...
Next Monday (July 5th) will see the kickoff of Abugida’s nursery school for children from the ages of 1 to 2, affectionately nicknamed “The Cutie Pies” by us and by Abugida’s workers. We have 31 children starting out, 31 children with 31 histories – quite a few of them very difficult, and all of them, ...
Mediterranea has decided to begin support for an extremely vulnerable sector of the population in Ethiopia, the elderly. In Ethiopia, old age conditions seem to begin at the age of 50, and in some cases before. Initially we will help 10 elderly people from Akaki (an area 25 km from Addis Ababa), who live in ...
Through the direct help of the Mediterranea Organization, an Ethiopian child, Mikias, who had chronic osteomyelitis in his right forearm, was brought to Mallorca for care and attention and his first operation towards successfully helping him toward recovery. After several days with intravenous antibiotics, he was put in the operating room to clean up his ...
Mediterranea will soon begin to select the children who will attend the nursery in Abugida, Ethiopia. We have to start the selection well in advance of the school year in order to give ourselves time to make sure that all of the children have the correct vaccinations, in this way we will avoid the spread ...
We are delighted that Son Dureta has accepted Mikias, a twelve year old Ethiopian boy, for an operation on the chronic osteomyelitis in his arm, which has already caused problems in the use of his hand. We believed it was preferable for him tocome to Spain rather than sending all the necessary medical supplies and ...
We met Zoraida four years ago when we first started in the Abugida school in Ethiopia. She is a...
We would like to introduce you to Deratu (on the left of the photo) and Hannaniya (on the right)...
The recent celebration at the Fitawrari School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia was attended by the leaders of many of...
In the spirit of the holidays, we’d like to share with you a letter sent to our current Members...
UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV and Aids, has a mission. Mediterranea participates in that mission. That...
The person on the right of the photo below is Sami. Sami is the representative of Education for the...
CHRISTMAS FAIR, PUERTO PORTALS, MALLORCA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5TH from 11 a.m. on the main “Bulevar” next to Capuccino. What...
There are not twenty mattresses, Neither a pea nor a castle; They sleep on the earth floor; In rooms...
Mediterranea is a non-governmental (NGO), non-profit organization founded in Mallorca, Spain in 1999. The Organization has no internal expenses and believes that all the funds accumulated should be spent directly on people in need. The organization is made up of 100% volunteers.
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