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Heavy torrential rains since August 16, 2008 in the Gambella regional state in Ethiopia have caused severe flooding, affecting thousands of people and destroying farmland and homes.
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Mahder Tsegaw is one of the ‘‘GIVE A GOAT ’’ beneficiaries in Amhara regional state in Dehana, namely in Berbera village. Receiving the donation of goats has changed her life.
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The joint ethio-dansih NGO programme in North Wollo started in 1997 and is a collaboration between the three Danish NGO's Save the Children, Danish Red Cross and DanChurchAid and their Ethiopian partners. The purpose was to relieve the food crisis and support agricultural development in North Wollo, a very poor area in Ethiopia.
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Ethiopia is on the verge of a hunger disaster. In the Southern Oromiya region people are already suffering.
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Contact information: DanChurchAid's regional office in Ethiopia
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Climate change, which results in floods, unpredictable rain, drought, and hunger, occurs in many African countries today. Traditional pastoral people are among the worst hit. The pastoralists depend on the welfare of their animals, which means adequate access to water and fertile grazing land.
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Due to illness, kidnapping and forced marriage, 21-year-old Medina Duna had to quit school. She is one of the 100 participants in the DanChurchAid’s goat husbandry project and she now hopes it will make her able to send her oldest daughter to school.
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A group of 100 marginalized women have this summer been selected to participate in a goat husbandry project in order to ensure sustainable livelihoods. They are all from an area of Ethiopia that has struggled with drought for the last six years.
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Adanech Eriso is the mother of four children and recently she became the owner of four goats through DanChurchAid’s goat husbandry project. She has decided that each goat should provide for each child’s school fee.
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Heavy torrential rains in Ethiopia have caused severe flooding in the Amhara and Gambella Regional States affecting more than 60,000 people and destroying farmland, roads and homes. The intensity of the rainfall and the magnitude of the floods is reported to be worse than the 2006 rainy season in which approximately 98,000 people were affected in the various areas of the region.
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One of the poorest parts of Ethiopia got an extraordinary visit in mid June. The Danish Minister of Development, Ulla Tørnæs, visited the DanChurchAid agriculture component of the Ethio-Danish Joint programme in North Wollo.
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Not every year can tell good news about the harvest in Ethiopia. But after last year’s drought which affected millions of people, and huge floods affecting another hundreds of thousands, the Ethiopian government announces that a good harvest is expected in 2007.
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On Thursday, March 15, DanChurchAid and 20 of its local partners paid a notable visit to the Ethiopian Parliament. The group saw the parliament in session in the morning and in the afternoon the group met with chairpersons of three Standing Committees. This is the first time in a long while that the civil society and members of Parliament engage in a dialogue and the meeting was mentioned in the evening news on the national television channel, ETV.
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A study carried out by the Poverty Action Network Ethiopia, PANE, shows that food aid is important for the most vulnerable groups but the study also uncovers major problems of dependency.
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USA and the Middle East are right now engaged in a nerve-racking power struggle in Somalia. It may result in fatal consequences for the civil population and chaos on the Horn of Africa.
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DanChurchAid fears that Ethiopian military intervention in Somalia will result in prolonged fighting and thus many civil victims – and thousands of new refugees in the war-torn country on the Horn of Africa.
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ACT Ethiopia Forum members - DanChurchAid, Christian Aid, Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC), Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY), Lutheran World Federation (LWF), and Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) - are preparing to respond to floods in Ethiopia. The response will be implemented mainly through EECMY’s South West Synod in Omo Valley and EOC in Dira Dawa region.
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DanChurchAid supports HIV/AIDS prevention and control projects. A HIV/AIDS programme has been initiated to prevent the further spread of the disease and to protect the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS.
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East Africa is in the grip of its worst drought for more than 20 years. The UN estimates that more than 8 million people across eastern Africa are in desperate need of food and water.
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Christian Aid, a member of ACT International, is working in Ethiopia helping to provide water and work for the Borana so that they can find ways to cope with this crisis.
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The 2005 national election in Ethiopia witnessed 116 women voted into parliament, thus implicating that women now hold more than 20% of the seats. That is three times as many compared to previous elections and a higher female proportion than in many European parliaments.
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The Ethiopian Muslims’ Relief and Development Association (EMRDA) is an indigenous faith based NGO established in 1994 and legally registered with the Ministry of Justice with the objective of preventing abject poverty and unemployment through participation and sustainable integrated rural development.
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African Development Aid Association (ADAA) is an indigenous non-profit making NGO established in 1988. It currently operates in the central & southern parts of Ethiopia, specifically in Oromia Regional State.
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Talent Youth Association (TAYA) was established by ten youths who came from different colleges, universities and institution of higher learning. TaYA is legally registered with the Ministry of Justice to function as a local NGO in Ethiopia.
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EECMY/LWF (Lutheran World Federation) is an active partner of the DanChurchAid food security programme and has a strong network throughout Ethiopia.
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DanChurchAid is working with women’s rights through local organisations in Ethiopia.
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Agri Service Ethiopia (ASE) is a national, non-governmental and non-profit making development organization, established in 1969. ASE is focussing on integrated food security projects.
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DanChurchAid and Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Inter Church Aid Commission (EOC/DICAC) started to cooperate in 2005 in Wadla, North Wollo, Ethiopia. EOC/DICAC is specialised in rural development projects.
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Kambatti Mentti Gezzimma-Tope (KMG) is a women-focused, community development organization established in 1997. Funded by DanChurchAid, KMG has implemented a project around the 2005 national elections to increase the participation of women.
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DanChurchAid's cooperation with Ethiopian Human Rights and Civic Education Promotion Association (EHRCEPA ) dates back to December 2004. EHRCEPA is concentrating its efforts on the realization of fundamental human rights, with a special focus on gender equality and the rights of women/girls to have influence over their own lives.
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Poverty Action Network Ethiopia (PANE) is one of the few networks in the country that involves civil society organisations in policy dialogue at national and lower levels, especially those relating to the country's Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP) and the Millenium Development Goals (MDG's).
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DanChurchAid has selected Action for Development to implement a livelihood security and good governance project in Ethiopia from funds allocated from the 2005 Parish Collection.
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Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus/Development and Social Service Commission (EECMY/DASSC) is among the faith-based partners of DanChurchAid with a cooperation lasting more than 25 years.
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DanChurchAid is an associate member of Christian Relief and Development Association, the biggest NGO umbrella organisation in Ethiopia.
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Research Center for Civic and Human Rights Education (RCCHE) focuses on the participation of poor people in social and political matters as an inalienable right to be fulfilled for democracy to come through.
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