International Board

Amsale Aberra, Co-founder and Creative Director, Amsale, New York

Meskerem Asrat, Former Executive Director, ECF, New York

Ronald Brown, Partner Toy & Brown Law

John Canady, Consultant, London

Issac Ephriam, Professor, Princeton University

Lisa Lambie, Executive Director, Satatt Holdings International, London

Gelila Assefa Puck, Designer, Gelila Inc, Founder/ Chairman of Dreams for Africa Foundation, Los Angeles

Marcus Samuelsson, Chef, Author and Entrepreneur, New York

Mahmoud Thiam, CEO of Thiam and Co LCC

Eskinder Yosef, General Manager, Jenaan International Ventures, Plc., Addis Ababa

Advisory Board - Ethiopia

Colonel Asrat Tessema

Getachew Kassaye

Teshome Gebre Mariam Bokan

Yoseph Tekle Mariam

Child Sponsors

2011-2012

Sheraton Addis, Jean Pierre Manigoff, Alain Berdouare, Samuel Adinew and Dee (Dereje), Jade Brown, Abraham Zemuy, Yemaneh Zemuy. Meskerem, Amsale Abera and Neil Brown, Jean-Louis Dumas, Abby Erdmann, Shira Erlichman, Erika Falconeri, Perine Fernando, Robert and Melinda Gerrard, Andy Goldman, Teresa Clarke, Lene Hall, Ephraim Isaac, Bill Karg, Hirut Kassaye, Gurmit Kaur, Kruh, Margareth Lahoussaye-Duvigny, Rita Matsuura, Yongbok Mayer, Tewodros Mequanenet, Tony Musembi, Leen Persico, Ekwe Quaye, Tekonme Quaye, Marie C. Rhone, Marcus Samuelsson, J. Schachter, Margaret Snyder, Heliane Steden, Mika Tarao, Mahmoud Thiam, Raeven Western, Abby Zeichner, Irvin Kicks, Henock Samuel Adinew, Yename Mekonnen

Fund Raising Committee

Meskerem Asrat. Adeelah Carrim, Alejandro Conde, Diana Erdmann-Sager, Mimi Eshete, Erika Falconeri, Perine Fernando, Hirut Getachew, Adey Getaneh, Vincent Hornoy, Rahel Kebede, Dani Leone, Julie Malin, Leen Persico, Stephanie Peters, Yodit Seifu, Hanna Shiferaw, Yeshiwork Shiferaw, Kaleb Tarrekegn, Admassu Tadesse.

Donors

AMADE, British Council, Addis Ababa, Energie Assistance, Belgium, Ethiopian Airlines, GTZ, Irish Aid, Mango Productions, Queen of Sheba New York, Sheraton Addis, Tory Burch, USAID, Irish Aid, Addis Ababa Villa Pacri, New York

ECF is made possible by the collaboration of so many individuals and organizations. Our deepest apologies to individuals who were inadvertently omitted.