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'If I can succeed, so can you!'
Published on 22 April 2013
By Hannan Endale, Inclusive Programming Specialist, ChildFund Ethiopia
As a person with a disability, I know firsthand what it means to live a life of segregation. And I know the feeling of being discriminated against and unaccepted because of one’s abilities. Having experienced those feelings, it is more than a pleasure to be part of ChildFund’s mission to support children with disability...
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Visiting the Horn of Africa - one year on
Published on 20 July 2012
By Jacqui Ooi, Senior Communications Officer, ChildFund Australia
Living in Australia, it’s easy to feel disconnected from other parts of the world. Even for those of us working at the ChildFund office in Sydney, while you know you’re part of an organisation doing really great work, it’s not always easy to understand how your part in it is helping and what it actually means to the children and families who are benefiting...
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The beauty and struggles of rural Ethiopia
Published on 27 June 2012
By Jacqui Ooi, Senior Communications Officer, ChildFund Australia
Travelling along the bumpy dirt road out to the villages of Siraro district in Ethiopia, the first thing you notice is how beautiful the landscape is – rolling fields dotted with grass-roofed mud huts, pairs of oxen moving slowly side by side ploughing fields and passing donkeys transporting bundles of firewood and jerry cans of water...
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Memories of another East African drought
Published on 05 October 2011
By Anne Lynam Goddard, CEO and President of ChildFund International
Anne Lynam Goddard has personal experience of drought in Africa. In the mid 1980s, she was a young aid worker based in Kenya. She was also a first-time mother of a three month-old baby.
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Providing emergency food relief in Ethiopia
Published on 17 August 2011
Getachew Tesfaye, Program Director, ChildFund Ethiopia
I would like to convey our sincere gratitude to all who are standing by our side at this trying moment, and by the side of tens of thousands of children and families who are going through the effects of drought in my country, Ethiopia...
