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Fantastic! And yes - I've downloaded the album & continue to push it!!


On 11/30/12 9:36 AM, "Jamie Drummond" <jamie.drummond@one.org> wrote:

>Tony - great piece and wonderful youve stayed in touch with her- sorry to
>miss your party, will be in Dar es salaam...revisiting a similar site,
>where we filmed for American Idol gives back a few years ago, seeing how
>that project is going.
>
>meanwhile, we trust youve all got everyone you know to download Tiestos
>remix of U2's pride...lets make it Number ONE on WAD...
>
>cheers
>Jamie
>
>
>________________________________________
>From: Tony Fratto [tfratto@hamiltonps.com]
>Sent: 30 November 2012 14:27
>To: Sandy Berger; Jackie Fuller; Megan Smith; ssmithellis@gmail.com;
>Hunter Biden; Kathleen Biden; John Sununu; Lynn Taliento; Joshua Bolten;
>colin@joinred.com; Seb Bishop; tfreston@firefly3.com;
>JdeBaubigny@kpcb.com; williamsbarrett@aol.com; aklake@earthlink.net;
>William.flanagan@mtvstaff.com; williamsbarrett@aol.com
>Cc: Tom Hart; Ginny Wolfe; Michael Elliott; Tyler Denton; Morgana
>Wingard; Molly.aker@joinred.com; Jamie Drummond
>Subject: Our friend from Addis...
>
>Hello, everyone ­ I hope you've all been well. I don't know if you
>remember Abezash Tamerat ― we met her in Addis during our ONE Campaign
>visit there a few years ago. She's the young Ethipian-American woman who
>ran a home for HIV+ orphans in Addis Ababa. Below is a wonderful story
>in today's Washington Post about Abezash and the annual benefit she holds
>here in DC. If I remember right, I think Lynn, Kathy, Jackie, Megan,
>young John Sununu, and Hunter and Kathleen Biden & I commandeered a van
>and made an impromptu visit to her home ― & we saw beautiful kids getting
>heaps of love and care.
>
>I've stayed in touch with Abezash since our visit, and she and her family
>have become close friends of my family. Abezash still runs the charity
>and is frequently back in Addis, but she now has 2 kids and lives in the
>DC area. And proving this really is a small world, Abezash's husband,
>Million Fikre, works in my old digs at the Treasury Department.
>
>Anyway, I wanted to update all of you on how Abezash is doing and also
>let you know about her fundraiser tomorrow night in DC. Here's the link
>for more information if you can attend or if you can support in any way:
>http://www.artistsforcharity.org/.
>
>Oh, and if you're in DC, feel free to attend my fun holiday party ― 7pm,
>December 13 at the Sofitel Hotel.
>
>And if I don't see you, have a wonderful holiday season. t
>
>(& apologies if I left some off this list ― I don't have David Lane's new
>email address, or Ben & Josh, and some email addresses have changed.
>Please share for me!)
>
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>Benefit to help raise funds for orphans with HIV in Ethiopia
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>When Abezash Tamerat, 31, an Ethio­pian American artist, established her
>nonprofit group, Artists for Charity, in 2002, it was to help save a rape
>crisis center on the verge of losing funding.
>
>But a year later, the focus of her group changed.
>
>While visiting Ethi­o­pia to learn more about where she came from,
>Tamerat met her young cousin, who was homeless and HIV positive. She
>tried placing him in various facilities, but they all had either reached
>capacity or turned him away because of his condition. When she eventually
>found a home for him, she noticed a bigger problem: Numerous children
>were battling similar struggles, once taken in by relatives only to be
>abused or abandoned because of their disease.
>
>
>Tamerat returned to the United States with a greater sense of awareness
>and commitment to help Ethi­o­pia. She continued having art events and,
>in 2005, Artists for Charity opened the Children’s Home in Addis Ababa,
>Ethiopia.
>
>On Saturday, World AIDS Day, the organization will host its sixth annual
>Holiday Benefit and Art Auction to help raise money for the Children’s
>Home. The event, at 7 p.m. at the District Architecture Center, 421
>Seventh St. NW, will include artwork by local and international artists,
>live entertainment by Ethiopian-born American R&B singer Wayna and
>traditional Ethiopian food and drinks. Tickets are $40 in advance, $45
>the day of the event.
>
>Artists for Charity’s Children’s Home provides housing, meals, medical
>treatment and counseling to HIV-positive orphans. Children are enrolled
>in school and are given routine physical examinations, antiretroviral
>medications and other treatments.
>
>“If you water a plant, it will grow. If you give a child the basics, they
>will thrive,” Tamerat said. “We wanted the kids to feel like they had a
>home.”
>
>Tamerat said her organization’s approach to talking “honestly and openly”
>with children about HIV distinguishes it from other groups. It has also
>enabled the children to take better care of themselves and each other,
>she said.
>
>“None of these kids are supposed to be alive,” Tamerat said. “It’s like
>seeing something come to life. I am so proud of them all. I’ve been able
>to watch them grow.”
>
>Cera Mattingly, 30, assistant to the executive director, said Artists for
>Charity is unlike any other organization that she has worked with because
>the group encourages overall success for each child.
>
>“AFC is run with an incredible amount of integrity,” Mattingly said.
>“Each child is valuable and important.”
>
>Artists for Charity is funded by donations from individuals and
>organizations and operated by volunteers throughout the United States,
>Canada and the United Kingdom. Not all volunteers are artists. Many work
>in other professions, and volunteers collectively have raised more than
>$80,000.
>
>In 2007, volunteers Hanna Tadesse and Bethel Tsegaye were students at
>George Mason University. While visiting Ethiopia, they volunteered at the
>Children’s Home and were transformed by the experience.
>
>“We felt connected to Ethiopia and the children and wanted to stay
>connected,” Tsegaye said. “We volunteered ourselves to raise money from
>home.”
>
>Balancing classes and exams while organizing a fundraiser proved to be a
>challenge, but they relied on their personal networks to organize the
>first auction. The benefit is now the group’s s leading fundraiser.
>
>“There was a need, a scary one. Kids were thrown out. What does that do,
>eradicate the problem? It only hurts communities. We never failed those
>kids, no matter what was raised,” Tadesse said.
>
>For the group, the measure of success has been the progress the children
>have made, including one who started college in September.
>
>For information, visit
>www.artistsforcharity.org<http://www.artistsforcharity.org/>.
>
>
>Tony Fratto
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