Help for Ethiopia's Drought-stricken Regions
Many countries are now coming forward to help poverty-stricken Ethiopia, where there has been no rain in years. The "Mittenwalde", —the ship carrying food, medicine, tents, blankets and 50 lorries— departed for the Red Sea port of Assab from Rosto...
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Kobo Relief Centre, Wollo.
Approximately 200,000 Ethiopian Jews have migrated to Sudan, who left the country after a severe famine.
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Seventeen Year Old Eritrean Girl
Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians are hunger-stricken due to the famine in Ethiopia. The picture shows the tragic condition of a 17-year-old girl.
Debilitating malnutrition is more common among women and girls, who are considered less important...
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Tea for Ethiopia
Donating 20,000 kilos of tea worth of Rs. 1,000,000 for Ethiopians suffering from a famine, took place at Janatha Estates Development Head Office, Vauxhall Street, Colombo. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, A. C. S. Hameed is handing over the boxes...
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Walking through Deserts
(Left) Ethiopians are walking through deserts to Sudan, searching for food.
(Right) A mother worried about not having a drop of water for her hunger-stricken, crying child.
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Women of Ethiopia
Ethiopia, today, is ravaged by famine. But custom prevents thousands of women from growing the drought-resistant crops which the men no longer cultivate.
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