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Articles about Ethiopia


09/07/2008: Joint Ethio-Danish NGO programme - North Wollo final evaluation
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. Read more...


29/05/2008: Why did God shut down the sky over us?
Ethiopia is on the verge of a hunger disaster. In the Southern Oromiya region people are already suffering.
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01/04/2008: Ethiopia contact information
Contact information: DanChurchAid's regional office in Ethiopia
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17/12/2007: Pastoral people are under pressure
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. Read more...


28/09/2007: Medina’s broken future
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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28/09/2007: A goat means hope for tomorrow
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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28/09/2007: A goat for each child
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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25/09/2007: Floods in Amhara and Gambella
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. Read more...


21/06/2007: Danish Minister of Development visits Ethiopia
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. Read more...


28/03/2007: Good harvest in Ethiopia
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. Read more...