Carrie Bowers
HopeChest Ambassador
Advocating For Ethiopia
My family and I have been partnered with Abenezer Children’s Home in Gerba Guracha, Ethiopia since 2015. Through HopeChest, we’ve become friends and sponsors to four amazing children, and in 2019, we helped raise funds to complete a new kindergarten. Since 2016, my husband and I have made several trips to Ethiopia, and in 2023, we were excited to return with our daughters—finally introducing them in person to the community and friends they had grown up hearing so much about.
I am excited to continue to help raise funds to build a latrine and provide access to clean water at Abenezer. This project will directly benefit more than 100 children and caregivers by improving sanitation, reducing illness, and providing fresh water for daily use. Beyond health, this access will support long-term sustainability, opening the door for future business opportunities like animal husbandry and expanding school enrollment. It’s an investment not only in infrastructure, but in dignity, opportunity, and the future of this remarkable community.
Carrie Bowers with her family and two of their HopeChest friends in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2023.
What Your Donation Supports: Latrine Infrastructure Project
I am excited to be raising funds for the latrine infrastructure project at Abenezer CarePoint in Gerba Guracha, Ethiopia . The project is designed to increase access to a quality education through use of better, more sanitary facilities for the children and the teachers in the compound. Will you join me?
Carrie Bowers is a Deaf and Hard of Hearing teacher, photographer and mom to four daughters. Since 2012, Carrie and her husband Justin have led New Community Church, which they planted out of a deep desire to live out their faith through service and community impact. Their shared heart for Africa led them to partner with Children’s HopeChest in 2015, where they became HopeChest Friends to four children in Gerba Guracha, Ethiopia. In her spare time, Carrie enjoys teaching ESL classes, tap dancing, traveling with friends and family and watching S10, E3 of the TV show “Friends.”
Children's HopeChest Ethiopia
More about Children's HopeChest
HopeChest works in multiple areas of community transformation to understand and address the underlying problems that cause poverty. We’ve identified these this concept as the “Twelve Areas of Transformation.” Learn more about our approach to community transformation.
