Bahir Home Help
We help people with losing a pet and loss of a friend, in person in Bahir Dar and online. Sessions are relaxed and you set the pace.
Evenings and weekends
For the grief of losing an animal who was family. Talk with people in Ethiopia who know what it is like, find help near you, and join the worldwide circle too. Free, always.
Next gathering in the Ethiopia circle: Weekly check-in ยท
We help people with losing a pet and loss of a friend, in person in Bahir Dar and online. Sessions are relaxed and you set the pace.
Evenings and weekends
We help people with losing a pet and loss of a spouse or partner, in person in Mekelle and online. Sessions are relaxed and you set the pace.
Evenings and weekends
Ask the world for money, goods, time or skills you need right now. Posting is free.
We help people with loss of a parent and loss of a child, in person in Addis Ababa and online. Sessions are relaxed and you set the pace.
Weekdays and Saturday mornings
Free emotional support from trained listeners, online and anonymous, in many languages.
24/7
Grief recovery support groups meeting weekly.
โSorry if this is a lot. Please be gentle with yourself. I wasn't, and it made everything harder. I let myself be sad for an hour a day and then do something. It sort of works. And talk to someone, even if it's just in here.โ
โIf you're at the start of this, I won't pretend it's easy. The firt few months were the worst of my life. But I'm writing this from the other side, and some days now I forget to be sad. I wrote them a letter and kept it in my bag for months. Go slowly.โ
โIf you're scared right now, I get it. Not that long ago, about a year, that was me. Put our dog to sleep after 14 years. That was my life. I can talk about it now without falling apart. It comes back slowly, like feeling in your fingers after the cold. You've got this, even if it doesn't feel like it.โ
โPlease be gentle with yourself and I wasn't, and it made everything harder and I talk to them out loud sometimes and it helps more than it should. And talk to someone, even if it's just in here.โ