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Notes from the Field
Ethiopia
Wednesday December 24, 2008
Posted by: CARE at 11:52AM EST on December 24, 2008
I leave Ethiopia today, December 22, after
nearly two weeks of visiting rural communities and meeting with local CARE staff
and health workers. My first trip ever to this country came on the eve of the
25th anniversary of the 1984 famine.
The situation in Ethiopia is bad. Around the countryside, the drizzle of rain turned shrubbery green, but it came too little, too late. Drought has caused most crops to fail. Nearly 85 percent of families in this country of 80 million people depend on seasonal rains to grow food on half-acre-sized plots of land — the primary source of nourishment for their children. It seems that larger families are feeling the pain of hunger and malnutrition first. ... (more)Tuesday August 5, 2008
Posted by: CARE at 4:16PM EST on August 5, 2008
At the 2008 International AIDS conference in Mexico City,
an event the size of a small city, it is a relief to see some familiar
faces. I already knew a handful of the 30 colleagues from around the CARE
world who gathered for a meeting before the conference, but the others, too, were like
family.
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