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About 120,000 people live in extreme poverty in Korah, subsisting primarily from scraps of discarded food they can dig from the local trash dump.

Not only did donations exceed expectations, but several families signed up to sponsor people in Korah through the Brook Hills Organization sponsorship program.

Yemamu Ahmed, the organization’s founder, grew up in Korah and was sponsored through a charitable organization as a child, helping him to earn a college degree.

Bria Mears of New London has spent the last yearandahalf living in Addis Ababa and working in Korah.

Mears will depart on her 17hour journey to Addis Ababa Sunday and remain there for a month working with children and families in Korah, in addition to school children in the city’s countryside where she will deliver an iPad she bought to help children read.