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Leader of Ethiopia's Only Women's Club
Fearless Abyssinian Woman Prepares to Fight Italy. Ethiopia's Joan of Arc is Voyzero (Madam) Abeebech, a wealthy vivacious young matron wife of an Army officer who is now serving at the Gondar frontier. Voyzero Abebech, is a well known figure in ...
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Measures Taken to Overcome Illiteracy
Ethiopia has now started training adults to read and write, in order to overcome illiteracy. These Ethiopian women are studying in the alphabetization class in Addis Ababa, and around 20,000 voluntary teachers all over the country conduct these cl...
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Women of Abyssinia Collect Funds
Latest photos from Abyssinia. The women of Abyssinia collect funds, after a meeting of the Patriotic Club at Addis Ababa, for the defence of their country.
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Ethiopia, today, is ravaged by famine. But custom prevents thousands of women from growing the drought-resistant crops which the men no longer cultivate.
UNICEF
The government of People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, which gained independence in 1967, has taken a number of steps to educate the citizens and to grant social rights for women. The tradition of covering [a woman's] head is seen rarely today. ...
Lankadeepa