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After taking part in an initiative called “Enebla: Let’s Eat Together” yesterday, I sat down with four of the organizers to discuss the drive and the reason why they are passionate about helping others. Below is their answers about why they are passionate about homelessness and why they care so deeply about helping our fellow “invisible citizens”.

Teodrose Fikremariam: Tell us about yourself, where you are from and what you do for a living?

Milli Getachew: I am a 25 year old Eritrean who was born to a mixed household, I am at once Eritrean and Ethiopian. I grew up between two cultures, in a way I felt at home in both cultures but never really connected to either. This has been a blessing and a burden of sorts, I feel connected to both heritages and see the beauty of both without bias to neither. This level of “unbelonging” made me search for a connection that I never really felt growing up. In a lot of ways, that is what I assume homelessness to be, a search for a connection and a quest to belong. That is why I am passionate about helping others, I feel moved and compelled to be a GPS for others because really I am on a map quest to find myself.

Teodrose Fikremariam: Why do you care about the homeless and why are you passionate to help them

Milli Getachew: I think we are all one bad break away, one missed paycheck or one missed opportunity away, from a life of homelessness too. Every day I am reminded of how lucky I am, because I too could be just a heartbeat away from a life on the streets. When I help out others, I am really helping myself. There but for the grace of God I go too. When I feed people who are homeless, when I give them gurshas from my heart, I am feeding my soul too. It really does not take too much to change the...continued...

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