𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 #𝟓! ❤️
The countdown is on! In just one week, Heart Attack Ethiopia Mission #5 begins. Together with 𝟓𝟎+ 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐬 from around the world, we're preparing to provide 1𝟓𝟎–𝟐𝟎𝟎 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞-𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 and 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, bringing hope to patients and families across Ethiopia.
Watch a special welcome message from our 𝐂𝐄𝐎 & 𝐂𝐨-𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫, @drmerid , as we get ready for another incredible mission.
❤️ One week to go. Together, we're saving lives.
#Mission5 #HeartAttackEthiopia #SavingLives #GlobalVolunteers #CardiacCare #TogetherWeSaveLives
@TTelila@drmerid
Thanks to Ambassador Fitsum and the entire diaspora service team in Addis Ababa for graciously welcoming HAE CEO @drmerid and HAE regional director Dr. Hailu to their office to discuss areas of collaboration to successfully execute @HeartAEthiopia Mission #5. 
@FMoHealth@fitsumaregaa
This isn’t exhaustion. This is commitment ‼️
🎯 Our volunteers don’t just bring skills—they bring their hearts.
👉Sometimes that means working through jet lag until they fall asleep in a warehouse, on a bus, or wherever their bodies finally give in. Not for people they know. Not for people who can repay them. But for fellow human beings they’ve never met.
We should be deeply grateful for every missionary, every donated device, every borrowed skill.
🎯 But gratitude should never become dependency❗️
👉The goal is not to keep importing care. The goal is to import knowledge, discipline, work ethic, teamwork, compassion, and a culture of excellence—then one day proudly say, “Thank you. We’ve got it from here.” ✊🏾
Every mission should leave behind more than treated patients. It should leave behind stronger professionals, stronger systems, and stronger institutions.
🎯 To my fellow healthcare professionals in #Ethiopia : the people who farmed to feed us, paid taxes to educate us, and believed in us deserve nothing less than our absolute best.
👉And finally, let’s stop competing where collaboration is needed. There is no scarcity of suffering in Africa—only a scarcity of coordinated solutions.
If we build together, we create something far greater than any one of us could achieve alone: a win for patients, a win for healthcare professionals, and a win for the business community that sustains it all.
The mission isn’t to do more missions. The mission is to build nations that no longer need them. ❤️🌎
#WeDoMissionsToEndMissions
@HeartAEthiopia
EZEMA has officially emerged as the leading competing party in the 2018 national elections, securing 86 seats in the House of Peoples' Representatives and regional councils. The party pledged to foster a healthy political culture and called for an inclusive, democratic future.
#Ethiopia #Election2026 #EZEMA #EBC
https://t.co/XA0vn4ViXD
If U.S. Prez Trump really understood all the facts surrounding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam he would take a different line. Best thing US could do is stay out of it and let Egypt and Ethiopia sort it out - which they will eventually. https://t.co/S0hP0SGLQe
Five weekends in a row.
Before a single surgery is performed, before a single patient is treated, our volunteers have spent countless hours sorting, inventorying, packing, and preparing thousands of pounds of lifesaving supplies for Mission #5.
What makes this work so special is that most of us have no idea who these patients are. We have never met them, and after their surgery we may never see them again. Yet we fight for their lives as if they were our own family.
That is the purest form of service: helping someone not because of who they are, where they come from, their race, ethnicity, religion, or creed—but simply because they are human.
I am deeply grateful to every volunteer who has dedicated five consecutive weekends to this mission. A special thank you to our Founder and CEO, Dr. Obsinet Merid, who joined us virtually from Ethiopia, where she is already on the ground preparing to welcome the team and lay the foundation for Mission #5.
The logistics are complex. The work is intricate. It truly takes a village. But every box packed represents hope, and every life saved reminds us that humanity is at its best when it serves without conditions. ✊🏾❤️
@HeartAEthiopia
#Mission5 #OneHeartOneLife #HumanityWithoutBorders
1945: Emperor Haile Selassie of met Churchill & Roosevelt in the final year of World War II. Ethiopia - present, engaged & at the table of global affairs - standing as a sovereign voice when it mattered most. And that hasn't changed.
Ethiopian Herald, Vol 2, No 35, Feb 24, 1945