Category Archives: General

December Newsletter Mailed Out

Posted on December 8, 2011

We just mailed out our end of year newsletter. We’re really excited about everything we’ve done this year. Check your email inbox. If you don’t see it, sign up using the form on the right. Or if you’d rather get … Continue reading →

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Where is the Medical Clinic?

Posted on July 13, 2011

We’re very excited about our Richard Oslund Memorial Clinic.  Even as a low-level clinic, it is making important differences in people’s lives by seeing patients and offering health education classes. Want to know more about the clinic?  Read more about it. … Continue reading →

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July Newsletter

Posted on July 4, 2011

February Fundraiser a big success!! Two hundred people gathered on the evening of February 26th to raise money for the Richard Oslund Memorial Clinic and the orphan programs of BNCO.  The program included an excellent Ethiopian dinner, silent auction, raffle, … Continue reading →

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Cartwheel for a cause

Posted on February 23, 2011

As we’re gearing up for our big benefit this weekend, we wanted to share a fun competition that we’re entering.  Alicia Colovos, one of our board members, helped a group of fourteen year old girls create the video below.  The girls … Continue reading →

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Building a future … one child at a time.

Posted on December 12, 2010

Blue Nile Children’s Organization (BNCO) is a Seattle-based non-profit organization that serves orphaned children in Ethiopia.  Through BNCO’s Child Sponsorship Program, donors directly support orphaned children for just $30/month, which provides food, clothing and education all the way through college … Continue reading →

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Richard Oslund Memorial Clinic

Posted on November 28, 2009

Blue Nile Children’s Organization built and operates the Richard Oslund Memorial Clinic (ROMC), which provides medical services to the community of Kolfe-Keranio on the outskirts of Addis Ababa (map) near where many of BNCO’s sponsored orphans live.  Construction was funded by … Continue reading →

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