Welcome to Club Anbesa

አንበሳ

ጻድቅ ግን እንደ አንበሳ ልበ ሙሉ ነው።

ለገሰ፣ አቶት፣ አቤኔ፣ ተሾመ
Legesa, Atot, Abene, and Teshoma

Welcome to Club አንበሳ (Anbesa)

Who we are: A football club (soccer team) from the streets of Menharia, Hawassa, in Southern Ethiopia.

What we are: A new way to engage the street community and society-at-large in Ethiopia to make long term changes in the lives of the boys on the street.

How we are different

Why we started: Hawassa is full of NGOs, but still numerous kids live on the street. (That is true of Ethiopia as a whole) We do not hope to take the kids off the street and transform them through aid, but to meet them where they are and transform them through opportunity, then help them to help themselves off the street.

Practically, we have related to the boys’ own interest and subjects of understanding (like a living parable). This is how the football club formed. Through this medium, the boys are engaged and encouraged to believe, be strong, work hard, have faith, grow in love of each other, look to the future, and overcome so many challenges. It is also a very effective and unique way for them to finally be accepted into society.

{“Anbesa” is Amharic for “Lion.” The team’s slogan is from Proverbs 28:1 “…But the righteous are as bold as a lion.”

Written in Amharic (the common language of Ethiopia) the translation is more dynamic, “The righteous have a heart of a lion.”}