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Before drought hit Elod Kebele in Elkere District in the Somali Region of Ethiopia, Gudad Hina Diba, a 40-year-old mother of ten children and her husband raised their family by cultivating a corn field and rearing goats that provided milk for the famil...
“Who in this room has a friend or relative who has been married before the age of 18?”
Bero village sits in contrasting landscapes of rugged hills and wide terraces, surrounded by steep escarpments in Minjar Shenkora District. Tin roofed houses follow patched plots of farmland that is hungry for the rainy season- ready to grow yet anothe...
Elay Primary 1 st & 2 nd Cycle School, Gambella Region, West Ethiopia. Photo: Hilina Abebe/NCA. At 8:20 am students rush to get to their classrooms at Elay Primary 1st & 2nd Cycle School in Gambella town, Western Ethiopia. Class has already commenced,...
In 2018, NCA Ethiopia and its’ partner, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church-Development and Inter-Church Aid Commission’s Refugee and Returnee Affairs Department extended support to close to 1000 vulnerable Eritrean refugees; and urban refugee women and...
- We have not had clean or adequate water, nor did our animals. As you might have seen on your way down here, our village is productive. We have everything, except clean water.
ETHIOPIA - In Siraro District, Oromia Region, adolescent girls and women undergo Female Genital Mutilation a few days before their wedding ceremony takes place. The practice is considered a rite of passage into womanhood and a pre-requisite for...