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Never Ending Disaster: Tonko Rebellion and Cry of the Hajongs

“I have been moving all my life. I don’t have a place that I can call home anymore” Komodini Hajong lamented while trying to brace herself on a jackfruit tree at the edge of her yard on a small hill. Eyes quenched, pointing with her aged and shaky hands at the ground below where people were plaguing their field for next crop, she cried out, “Nothing had changed for my people. After all this...

I am trying to cope with the c…

I am trying to cope with the cold

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I uploaded a YouTube video — Shorbanu We Want to Live low res http://youtu.be/VTfhyGLBwoY?a

I uploaded a YouTube video — …

I uploaded a YouTube video — Vaccination.wmv http://youtu.be/x0dsZv5OXoo?a

I uploaded a YouTube video — …

I uploaded a YouTube video — water need.wmv http://youtu.be/RJW99G_MgqM?a

Our Sins Without Redemption

                        I don’t know how it happened. For years, people in the NGO world only talk about economic growth, development and progress. It did not matter how we achieved it or what price we had to pay for this so-called development. Donors poured in hundreds of millions of dollars as long as it showed economic growth and upward movement in the poverty index. As long our so-called...

Pakistan IDP Crisis

            I arrived in Pakistan in a time when millions of people are fleeing from their home and bombs and guns indiscriminately killing innocents and destroying everything that poor, ordinary people built over the years with hard labour. The so-called war on terror launched by Pakistani military has displaced millions of people. While fighting is spreading in other areas, Pakistani government...

Afar diary: Walkign miles to stop outbreak

I went out with a group of health workers in Mille district of Afar region for vaccination campaign. We started early morning to go to Gafura village. We camped at the village head house. After drinking our morning tea with lots of sugar, we head out to start our work. I was warned that the houses are scattered around more than 50 mile rediance. We walked through the volcanic rock in scroching sun...

Non formal Education for Pastoralists

Fatema learing alphabets at the alternative school Adult are also welcomed to learn reading and write English, Afar, Math and Social Science is part of basci education Pastorlaist communities migrate from one area to other around the year in search of water and pasture. Afar communities travel long distance in the dry season. Because of their mobility, it is impossible for their children...

Afar dairy 3: Women tries to secure water sources to ensure education for their Children

I reached the village of Addu of Gega Ke Burtale Kebele (Sub district) of Mille woreda (district) in the dark of night. Hamferi Laenta (48), the teacher greeted us, hurriedly puting the mats on the floor for us to sleep and offering us freshly backed bread and goat milk. As usual cautious but curious children slowly gathered around us under the brightly moon sky. After the initial shyness and language...