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"Desertification Means Famine"
Desertification Means Famine. Food aid came too late for two of the three children of this Ethiopian mother; days after this photo was taken they died. According to UNEP each year 21 million hectares of once productive land is rendered useless for...
United Nations Environment Programme
"Desertification Means Famine"
Desertification Means Famine. Food aid came too late for two of the three children of this Ethiopian mother; days after this photo was taken they died. According to UNEP each year 21 million hectares of once productive land is rendered useless for...
United Nations Environment Programme
Addis Ababa: Manifestation on the Occasion of the International Year of the Child
20,000 Addis Ababa children gathered at the national stadium of the Ethiopian capital for a manifestation on occasion of the International Year of the Child. In the presence of head of state and government Mengistu Haile Mariam and more representa...
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People's Democratic Republic of Yemen: Children well cared for Happy children can be met everywhere in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen today. Some of these girls from Aden shown here festively dressed take part in a cultural pupils' pro...
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(Left): Even the single drop from the tap is nectar to him. (Right): Two emaciated girls who have nothing but skin and bones for bodies.
The Times of Ceylon Press
The desperate plight of a dying three-year-old contrasts with the joy of a child for whom relief arrived in time.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Ethiopia Defeats Ignorance — Geography Lesson
In 1974, the number of Ethiopian students who could not read or write was 93 per cent. But the government's program to educate them using television and radio has been successful. The number of currently studying young and adult students are incre...
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Ethiopia: Struggle Against Illiteracy
These children from the Kebele 23/10, one of the almost 300 residential districts in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, wait for the beginning of the lesson. About 1,500 girls and boys attend this school which is a tin hut for the time being. Less...
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