Tagged: Ethiopia

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I spent my first days in the NICU; I got lucky

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Twenty-five tiny newborns were crammed three and four to a bed. The only sink was filled with dirty water with no soap in sight. An empty bottle of hand sanitizer hung from a string on the door. The scene before me in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of a major hospital in Ethiopia wasn’t the worst I had seen, but it was no less… Read more →←
Two girls in an empty classroom, one of them sitting behind a desk while the other stands beside against the wall.

From conflict to the classroom — a refugee’s story

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I came to Ethiopia in 2013, and lived in the Sherkole refugee camp, where I spent four years. Before Sherkole I was studying in a government school in Uganda. Now I am in Bambasi Camp (Ethiopia) where I have been for the last two years. When I left my home country DRC, I was 12 years old and studying in Grade 2. We lived in a rural area… Read more →←
A girl in winter clothes stands in an open field with mountains in the background.

To be or not to be: My immigrant parents’ wildest dreams

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When you look at my passport, it looks like I’m just another German, born in an ordinary German city without anything to make me special. While it’s so clear on my passport, it feels like I am starring as Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the theatre that is my life: “To be German or not to be German”.  Too many times it’s the first… Read more →←
A young girl wearing a green printed headscarf with her hands folded in front of her looks on as she is surrounded by women and girls in vibrant attire

Chasing water from space

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An innovative approach to finding fresh water underground in drought-affected areas in Ethiopia. If you happen to drive by it, the steel pipe standing at attention in the middle of the desert doesn’t look very impressive. Yet, this pipe and the borehole beneath it currently form UNICEF Ethiopia’s most innovative and exciting project… Read more →←
A group of five smiling school girls standing close to one another in front of a green school wall in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

School girls and gender rights in Ethiopia

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I joined the gender club at my school in Ethiopia over a year ago, because I knew girls who were victims of sexual abuse, including my friends and relatives. I wanted to do my part to help prevent this problem. The clubs were created to help such girls and support them as they rejoin their communities. The clubs also help educate other… Read more →←

No one left behind: Linking families to essential social services

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For the last three years, I’ve been working to make Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net (PSNP) both more nutrition sensitive and better connected to health services. PSNP is the main tool to help forward Ethiopia’s Social Protection Policy and Strategy, which provides regular cash or food transfers to over 8 million people in need.… Read more →←
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New hope in drought-stricken Ethiopia

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Ruined crops. Dead livestock. More than 10.2 million people in need of urgent relief assistance. Six million children stalked by thirst, hunger and disease. This is the situation in Ethiopia, now facing the worst drought in decades. Few places more fully bear the costs of this crisis than the parched, rocky Afar region of Ethiopia, where… Read more →←
A group of people stand around a newly-erected well

Satellites help fight drought in Ethiopia

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With Ethiopia threatened by a potentially devastating new drought, UNICEF has ventured into an area for which the Children’s Fund isn’t generally known: satellite remote sensing. The technology is being used to help herders drill the wells they need to keep their thirsty flocks alive. More than 70 percent of the wells drilled in the… Read more →←
The Ebo clean water project benefits 27, 000 people in seven villages including 15,000 school children, with clean water in their school and households. Young girls now can attend school regularly without spending more time looking for water.

How Ethiopia managed to supply water to 48 million people

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Today, we’re celebrating something special in Ethiopia – reaching the water Goal 7c of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). What does this mean? Put simply, it means 57 percent of the country’s population now is drinking water from an improved water supply such as a tap or hand pump, rather than from an open stream. By… Read more →←

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