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On 11/30/12 9:47 AM, "Tony Fratto" <tfratto@hamiltonps.com> wrote:

>Fantastic! And yes - I've downloaded the album & continue to push it!!
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>On 11/30/12 9:36 AM, "Jamie Drummond" <jamie.drummond@one.org> wrote:
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>>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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>>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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