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Establishment
Bridge of Hope formerly known as Bridge to Israel in Ethiopia was founded in 1984 by Timotheus and Magdalena Augstburger who have dedicated their lives to serving the poor and needy. In the past 21 years, the Augstburgers have worked in the West Bank in Israel, Lebanon, Armenia, Georgia, and Ukraine.
They came to Ethiopia in 1999 and partnered with Ato Demmelash Aysheshim, an Ethiopian citizen, and embarked upon implementing the work. Together, they devoted their time, energy and money into establishing Morning Star Children's Village in 2001, with the dream of bringing help, hope and blessings to many hopeless and impoverished children in Ethiopia where poverty, malnutrition and HIV/AIDs are common.
At the turn of the Millennium, in September 2000, at the United Nations General Assembly, 189 countries had endorsed Goal's vision of bringing down by in half the percentage of people living in extreme poverty and to improve health & education in impoverished countries by 2015.
This agenda is called the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and includes specific measurable targets for their achievement. Bridge of Hope embraces these goals and it is striving to do its part in its little corner of the world by providing basic necessities for over 300 orphans as well as employment for 98 permanent employees.
