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PONNAMMA : A JOURNEY OF FAITH<br />
SEVIKA SANGHAM OF MARTHOMA CHURCH SFBA, SVC AND THE NINANS<br />
In 1960, Emperor Haile Selassie came to India to recruit teachers for Ethiopia and Ninan was appointed<br />
as a teacher. On February 1960 they left for Ethiopia. While Ninan taught in the Haile Selassie I Day<br />
School of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, <strong>Ponnamma</strong> taught in the private school of Ato Alebatchew. (This is<br />
now a University). Due to a civil war in which the Marxists tried to take over the county of Ethiopia<br />
from Haile Selassie, a pregnant <strong>Ponnamma</strong> had to fly back to India and gave birth to Premeela in 1962.<br />
Women of the Madathilparampil Family<br />
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