How Wellspring helped turn around a family’s fortunes
December 18, 2023
Darkness filled Helen Zegeye’s first days in Seattle.
In December 2018, Zegeye and her husband, Dr. Wendwesen K. Lemma, arrived in America with their two small children, a then-2-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter. They didn’t speak much English. Zegeye was eight months pregnant. She remembers those early winter weeks in town as very gray and very, very quiet — so different from their home in Ethiopia.
