The photograph above shows members of the Afar community awaiting their food rations in a food-for-work site in the Gewane District of the Afar Region. The Gewane Administration has given them land to cultivate as part of a pilot emergency relief programme started by AYELU in 2003.

We aim to help Ethiopians develop themselves and their lifestyle to achieve self-sufficiency, rather than rely on sparse provisions of food and water given to them too little and often too late...

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Basic Needs : A Struggle

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Ethiopia is classified by the WFP as a Hunger Hotspot where 46% of its population suffer from hunger and malnutrition...

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Drought and the absence of any infrastructure to make use of rain water mean...

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