Happy Easter 2019 from Sister Laura
A very Happy Easter to you, our friends of long standing, and to our new friends who have just joined the Adwa family....
16 April, 2019
Adwa Tag
From Ethiopia to New York: Sister Laura Girotto and the miracle of the mission to Adwa
“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...
02 April, 2019
Spring 2019: Adwa hospital is at a turning point
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!...
25 March, 2019
Long-distance love stories
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 is the...
11 February, 2019
January 2019 hospital update
2019 will be the year the new hospital in Adwa goes into service....
11 February, 2019
If you’re born in the wrong place…
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 this...
11 February, 2019
THE BLUE TENT – the book about sister Laura Girotto and the Adwa mission
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)....
08 January, 2019
Volunteers’ testimonies
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...
17 April, 2018
Christmas letter 2017 by Sister Laura
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....
24 January, 2018
Medical activity in September & October 2016
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!...
17 November, 2016