In 2016, I started the process of taking Open Hearts Big Dreams from the fundraising event we started in 2011 to a full-fledged not-for-profit. I was inspired by our amazing daughter and the opportunities we saw to contribute after funding and expanding a library in her birth-town of Bahir Dar (pictured here). That year was …
Open Hearts Big Dreams – Five Years into the Organizational Journey Read More »
It was a big month for Open Hearts Big Dreams. We had our best GiveBIG effort ever – thank you to all who matched, gave, or shared! None of this work is possible without the funding we receive through these types of efforts! We hosted our first locally-focused workshop event organized and led by our …
OHBD’s Leadership Focus Creates Our Newest Leaders Read More »
We are excited to launch our OHBD Big Dreams Heroes and Leaders in Literacy, Innovation, and Inclusion Awards to recognize their invaluable contributions. These volunteers and supporters are heroes and leaders in the truest sense of the words. They exemplify our mission of empowering youth to transform their futures and follow our tenets to accomplish …
I faintly remember how I would stress over finding the right way to ask for a guest’s phone to play games with, whenever there was an event in our house. My good aunties would just give it to me, with nice a pat on the back, while the “Petunia Dursleys” stressed over tricking me to …
Love of computer games leads to Computer Science education & leadership Read More »
The hardest thing to overcome in computer science is intimidation. When you try to enter the field as a beginner, it feels like a foreign territory. I remember thinking “I would love to learn programming.” I also remember thinking “Do I belong in this field?”, “Am I good enough?”. I spent so much time wondering …
Computer Science Boot Camp: Where Rigor Inspires Growth Read More »
My name is Abebe Amare and I am an undergraduate student at Duke University studying Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering. I have always appreciated how chains of opportunities brought me here and how the opportunity I have at Duke takes me to the next stage of my life. Opportunities are the fragments of …
Why I volunteer for the OHBD | American Embassy CS Boot Camp Read More »
