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Debra Kerby has an interesting perspective on the world. As Executive Director of Canadian Feed The Children, she moves between her Toronto office to Haiti or Africa or Bolivia to keep a keen eye on how the agency is helping children thrive.
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Category Archives: Ethiopia
Hope for Ethiopia’s Vulnerable Women and Children
Visit with CFTC partner ISAPSO, which works extensively with women-headed families in the poor communities of Sululta and Chancho outside of Addis, reveals the tremendous impact of child sponsorship on women’s and children’s lives. Continue reading
Experiencing The Great Rift Valley
Debra rises with the dawn and captures a 360-degree view of The Great Rift Valley of Africa – the cradle of life on our planet – viewed from Ankara, Ethiopia. Continue reading
Quality of Water = Quality of Life
Debra Kerby’s trip to Ethiopia continues with a trip to the Gelan Gura Water Initiative, just outside of Addis, with CFTC Partner EDA. Continue reading
Hot Beans and Cool Ideas
Debra Kerby’s third day in Addis is bookended by Ethiopian coffee ceremonies. In between, she visits an award-winning early childhood care centre run by CFTC partner, MCDP, plus much more. Continue reading
It takes guts to build trust
It takes guts to build trust, as Debra Kerby learns over dinner following day one of CFTC’s Ethiopian Partners Forum in Addis Ababa. Continue reading
Ethiopia Today
Debra Kerby has arrived safely in Addis Ababa to visit CFTC’s Ethiopian projects and partners. Here’s her view on Ethiopia today-a country that has made tremendous strides to alleviate poverty, although is still ranked among the poorest in the world. Continue reading
Heading off to the Horn of Africa
Debra Kerby blogs before she hits the road again, this time to Ethiopia where she’ll be visiting projects including the Gelan Gura Water Initiative. This well construction project is underway with involvement of 850 families in this impoverished rural community outside of Addis. Continue reading
It’s Raining in Ethiopia
I was on a call with our Country Representative in Ethiopia recently, and it seems the rains have come to the central and western regions of Ethiopia. Crops are growing and communities are “doing fine” at this time in these regions. Yet on the other side of the country, in the south and east of Ethiopia, drought has fully set in. Continue reading
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Tagged famine, food security, Horn of Africa, Somalia
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Our Hearts are in Somalia
After seeing the impact of escalating food prices and lack of rain on impoverished communities in Uganda just a couple of weeks ago, it is hard to see news today that the UN has officially declared a famine in southern regions of Somalia. While Somalia is not a country where our little organization operates, the joint impacts of poverty, malnutrition and natural disaster are familiar. Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Ethiopia, Food Security
Tagged famine, food security, Horn of Africa, Somalia
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