Conserving the Beauty of Ethiopia — A Legacy of Love and Working Together

Ethiopia is a country full of animals that can’t be found anywhere else in the world—and other amazing animals as well. But many of those animals could easily disappear forever. Majestic black lion populations, for example, have declined almost 90%, with only small populations clinging to life in pockets of Ethiopian wilderness. One conservationist who […]

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Books As Instruments of Peace

by Ellenore Angelidis, Executive Director/Founder Peace is an enormous and important concept. It encompasses peace within, and peace without. Looking at the definitions again reminded me that it is really about so many different things at the same time.  Peace:  1. a state of tranquility or quiet;  2. freedom from civil disturbance;  3. freedom from

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Spreading Book Joy in Ethiopia

This is a guest post by Samara Alazar, one of volunteers about her experience leading a project to fundraise for locally printed books and distribute them in Ethiopia.  Over the winter break of 2022, I traveled to Ethiopia.  My goal was increasing literacy amongst underprivileged children. I have been working with Open Hearts Big Dreams

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IBBY Ethiopia and Open Hearts Big Dreams Announce Exciting New International Developments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Yoseph Ayalew phone: 251 965 696 969 / 911 227 650 / email: yosephopenheartbigdreams@gmail.com Ellenore Angelidis phone: 425-295-8841 / email: ellenore@openheartsbigdreams.org IBBY Ethiopia and Open Hearts Big Dreams Announce Exciting New International Developments March 2024 – The Ethiopian Section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY Ethiopia) and Open

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Smiling Ethopian girl holding "Friends Forever" by Ready Set Go Books

OHBD’s Literacy Initiatives Continue to Garner International Recognition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 2024 – Open Hearts Big Dreams (OHBD) and the Ethiopian Section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY Ethiopia) are elated to announce that two of the OHBD Ready Set Go Books (OHBD-RSG) were honored at the 29th Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2023 in Riyahd, Saudi Arabia. Friends

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Gourmand Award certificate as awarded

Open Hearts Big Dreams Ready Set Go Books Honored Among “Best in the World”

July 2023 – Open Hearts Big Dreams (OHBD) is delighted to announce that two of their OHBD-Ready Set Go Books (RSG) have been honored with Gourmand Awards 2023. My Five Senses, by Elizabeth Spor Taylor, was listed as First in “Food Books for Children—Africa.” And Letter from a Plow Nation, by Dr. Worku L. Mulat,

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Book cover: Jember (English and Amharic) by Open Hearts Big Dreams

Open Hearts Big Dreams Launches Black History Month Collaboration with Etan Comics

  Open Hearts Big Dreams Launches Black History Month Collaboration with Etan Comics  February 2023 – To celebrate Black History Month, Open Hearts Big Dreams (OHBD) is launching a special collaboration with Etan Comics, the creator of the character Jember, the first Ethiopian superhero. The partnership makes the children’s book version of Jember available in

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Collection of bilingual books (Ethiopian native language and Greek)

Bilingual Children’s Books delight Ethiopian and Greek kids in Greece

We have a wonderful collaboration with Pelargos that helps bring Greek and Amharic versions of some our favorite books to kids in Greece.  Below is a translation, thank you Michael Angelidis, from a recent article in Greece about this initiative.  For those that read Greek, here is the original Did you know that Andromeda, the

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Smiling student

Advice from a OHBD CS Grad: Let’s build a future that the next generation will be thankful for

In late 2020, we were awarded a grant from the American Corners to run Computer Science and Entrepreneurship Boot Camps along with a series of leadership talks.  It was the most challenging of environments with conflict and the virus each presenting what seemed like insurmountable challenges. The OHBD team had to consistently reinvent and reimagine

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