I don’t know what else to do but to open my heart to you, stranger, friend, human being.

We are not just struggling. We are drowning.

My daughters Emrakle and Eleni go to bed with empty stomachs.
My wife, Alemtsehay, holds in her tears so our children don’t see her break.
My blind grandmother depends on me. My elderly father does too.
But I can no longer carry them alone.

I lost my job when the company I worked for was sold. Since then, we’ve lived each day in fear of eviction, illness, and hunger.
I have a degree in plant sciences, but in a broken system, even education can't put food on our table.

I am not asking for charity.
I am asking for a chance.

🌱 A Chance to Work, Not Just Survive

If I can raise $22,000 (1,300,000 ETB), I will purchase a plastics compressor and crusher machine to start a small recycling business.

This machine means

• 💼 A stable income to feed my children and care for my elders

• 🌍 A cleaner environment for our neighborhood

• 👨‍👧‍👧 Dignity restored  not by handouts, but by honest work

• 🧱 A chance to rebuild our lives from the ground up

🧾 How the Funds Will Be Used:

❤️ How You Can Be the Lifeline We Need:

Donate  No amount is too small. Even $5 can buy a day’s food.
Share  Maybe you can’t help now, but someone in your circle can.
Encourage. Your words can carry us through another hard day.

🧠 Why This Matters (Mind-Trigger Points):

• 💥 You’re not just helping us survive; you're investing in a solution, not a short-term fix.

• 🤝 This is a human story, not just a number. It’s real. It’s raw. It’s now.

• 🔁 Every dollar echoes in environmental cleanup, in job creation, and in saved lives.

• 🕊️ You're not donating you’re giving us air to breathe again.

From one human to another 
If you’ve ever felt helpless… if you’ve ever needed someone to believe in you…
Then you already understand what I’m going through.

Please, stand with us.
Not out of pity but out of shared humanity.

🙏 Thank you,
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