Donate to CAFOD’s work July 2010 marks 25 years of Live Aid, when 80,000 people gathered in London for a pop concert, organised by Bob Geldof and his friends. Live Aid wanted to bring to the world’s attention the plight of Ethiopians as they faced a devastating famine. But for me, as an eight-year-old girl living in Addis Ababa, [...]
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October 22, 2009
Kenya and East Africa Crisis
We are appealing for £1 million to support our partners who are helping as around 3.8 million people battle against drought in north-east Kenya and the surrounding region Throughout large parts of the country, families face the prospect of starvation as the persistent drought claims crops and animals. We have already pledged £250,000 to our [...]
September 10, 2009
Ethiopia: Steeped in history
Ethiopia is an amazing place. It has its own calendar – seven years and seven days behind ours. It also has its own clock – still with two sets of 12 hours, but they run from dawn to dusk and dusk to dawn, rather than midnight to midday and midday to midnight. So, 1am here is [...]
September 10, 2009
Ethiopia: Green shoots of optimism
When I first went to Ethiopia I only knew three things about the country. It’s famous for marathon runners, it suffers from periodic famines (or at least it did when I was growing up), and its leader used to be Emperor Haile Selassie, who was made into a God by the Rastafarians in Jamaica, believing [...]
August 20, 2009
Ethiopia: Duff and Krul, temes gen fetary
In 1992, I was in Liberia when Newcastle began their triumphant Barclays League Championship campaign. Eleven league games into the season – as the situation in Liberia deteriorated and rockets began to be shot into the city – Newcastle still had a hundred per cent record. I was evacuated on the eve of their 12th [...]
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