We meet to exchange “Happy Easter” greetings. It is natural to think of the celebration, the Easter Monday picnic, the stuffed and tasty colomba. We remember less that that celebration was preceded by a triduum of pain, betrayal, violence, mourning, death on the cross of......
The signs of the civil war are still numerous, and some of these are real open wounds for Tigray, which is still trying to slowly restart. The health situation is one of the sore points: if once Tigray was considered a model in the fight against HIV, thanks to years of awareness-raising efforts that had brought the HIV prevalence rate in the region to 1.4% (one of the lowest in Ethiopia), now the situation is very different...
Dear dads, moms, grandparents, long-distance siblings, we hope together with you that this will be the last Christmas in which the photos of the children and young people of Adwa will be missing. As you know, the situation of danger, violence, blockade is not yet over in Tigray. There are glimmers of hope......
Dr Mario Atzeni had never worked in an African hospital. When some friends proposed him to volunteer with doctors of ASPOS in order to improve the pediatric ward at the hospital in Adwa he didn’t think twice......
In March 2023 the situation in Tigray is still hard for hunger, lack of medicines, cash, fuel etc. But Kidane Mehret Hospital always offered assistance and a safe place ti give birth. Read the report...
Happy Easter Distance Parents, Friends, Mission Supporters! Jesus has risen three days after his crucifixion. In Adwa, after three years of pain and war impossible to describe, lights of rebirth, of RESURRECTION, are finally shining. To call the problems over would be a big word:......
On November 2, 2022, on the 2nd anniversary of the war, with the mediation of the African Union, the agreement on the permanent end of hostilities in northern Ethiopia was signed in Pretoria. Tigray’s representative admitted that “painful concessions” had been made and recalled that......
We'd like to share the report showing the dramatic conditions of IDP camps (Internally Displaced People) in Adwa......
The lack of medical treatment, including medicine and medical equipment, is very concerning in the north of Ethiopia. Also Kidane Mehret Hospital is facing this emergency since autumn 2021, when trucks and flights were prevented from bringing medical aid and fuel into Tigray region. Read......
The health care system in Tigray have been destroyed. Read the article on “The Hill“. Adwa Kidane Mehret Hospital is nowadays really important to support. Michele Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, on the 13th of September, updated the Human Rights......
We want to let all know the report published by Amnesty International on August 2021. The report, ‘I Don’t Know If They Realized I Was A Person’: Rape and Other Sexual Violence in the Conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia, reveals how women and girls were subjected to......
Read news about Tigray conflict...
The commitments and agreements made by the Ethiopian federal forces, humanitarian agencies and diplomacy did not seem to be maintained. The first Red Cross aid convoys arrived in Mekelle only on 12 December, in Adwa on the 18th of December...
From 4 November last, when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abyi Ahmed began military action in Tigray against the forces of the local party in power, the TPLF, to date the conflict in Ethiopia continues not to appear on the news or on the agenda Italian foreign policy....
At the begining of November 2020, the Ethiopian Prime Minister has ordered a military intervention against the regional government of Tigray, following unauthorized elections and an attack on a federal military base. Amici di Adwa, sister Laura Girotto and all the salesian sisters remain by their side!...
A few days ago Ethiopia introduced stringent measures for limiting the spread of the pandemic. All businesses are shut down by government order, and all schools, factories and public places are closed - march, 23...
Dear friends of the Adwa mission, Our usual Easter letter is more appropriate for our times than ever: Lent, the time of the Passion, of Gethsemane. These are the steps leading to the Resurrection, the celebration of Life, of the Victory of our God over......
2019 was a key year for the Adwa hospital. The activity that before was carried out in the temporary structure of the Mission was transferred to the first wing of the new building. ...
Aregawi was born to a young mother with no formal schooling. His father abandoned the family as soon as he learned of his son’s handicap. Something had gone wrong during the birth......
You too can make a precious contribution to continuing the medical campaigns in the first wing of the new Kidane Mehret Adwa hospital....
While waiting to be able to offer round-the-clock medical services, volunteer doctors from ASPOS and AMOA have been implementing new examination and minor surgery campaigns, divided according to speciality....
Thanks to all your support at Christmas, to your contributions made with donation of 5 thousandths of your income tax (“IRPEF”) and through long-distance adoption of students, we have completed the first training unit for 14 Ethiopian nurses. The goals set by Italian training staff,......
A very Happy Easter to you, our friends of long standing, and to our new friends who have just joined the Adwa family....
“We have only one life. We must not waste it.” A phrase that is repeated (and often repeated to herself) by Laura Girotto, a Salesian devotee who, having arrived in Adwa Ethiopia in 1993, from nothing built a little village, which is now a reference point for the local population exhausted by wars and precarious hygiene conditions....
Adwa hospital is at a turning point, offering medical services once again after almost two years. But we haven’t been sitting around during these two years, not at all!...
We are glad to publish the stories that so many “long-distance parents” have generously shared with us, demonstrating their great love, generosity and humanity. Our heartfelt thanks to all of them! Why is it worth being a long-distance parent? This photograph I have just received......
2019 will be the year the new hospital in Adwa goes into service....
Do you see the baby girl in the photograph? Sister Laura noticed her among the patients in the public hospital, because the wound on her cheek was severely infected. She was delivered using forceps inappropriately, tearing her cheek and injuring her shoulder. Mahlet – for......
Sister Laura Girotto, together with the journalist Niccolò d'Aquino and the biologist Anna Carobene, has been travelling through USA and Canada last february. She shared the story of her mission in Adwa and appealed to the solidarity of Americans....
The book "THE BLUE TENT - In the Horn of Africa with the weapon of solidarity" by Niccolò d'Aquino is now available in English for Amici di Adwa in Cento (FE - Italy)....
School is over, holidays are coming, but we’d like to publish how many scholars, teachers, parents helped our children in Adwa this year....
When do you walk along Adwa you can’t help but thinking about the future and how you would like it. Let’s think about an ophthalmologist who receive in a modern and equipped clinic. Let’s think about an optic who produce and distribute glasses, not existing in Ethiopia. ...
EASTER 2018 Dear Friends, We wish you all a Happy Easter from the Associazione Amici di Adwa which this year turns 20!...
Dear parents and friends, our traditional Christmas meeting is unusual for this year, but particularly rich in joy: we are completing the first two lanes of the hospital, which we hope to inaugurate the 24 May 2018, on the feast of Mary Help of Christians....
Happy Easter to all my friends reading this....
From 25/12/16 to 20/1/17 the assistance was offered by A.S.P.O.S....
Milete is in year 3 at the Adwa Mission primary school. She walks to school every day from her family's house. Her mother brings herds of sheep out to pasture each day....
Fernando Gaion is a doctor who was part of the invaluable team of medical volunteers in Adwa. He is an important Italian oncologist with a big heart. On his return from Ethiopia, he told us this touching story…...
Dearest friends, ...it’s Christmas once again. We must be practical and realistic: it takes Evangelical courage to celebrate the true meaning of this recurring event. What is Christmas? "...peace on earth and goodwill to all men......
It is always with great admiration that we publish the report from the doctors volunteering in the temporary clinics of the Adwa mission. Our THANKS to them and to all our collaborators!...
On Christmas Eve 2015, Sister Laura sent us a special message:...
This is why the food shortages the children and families of Adwa face must be supplemented....
Dr. Sergio Tabacchi, an ophthalmologist from Ferrara who has spent part of his holiday volunteering in Adwa for the last 7 years, found himself operating on a hopeless case......
Sister Laura is meeting all the families being supported by long-distance adoption. At the Mission, volunteer doctors from Italy are giving medical aid. Carolina is skilfully documenting everything with her camera....