Ethiopia
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Our irrigation project is helping families in drought-prone northern Ethiopia grow food despite the dry conditions.
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The new borehole in Egrihariba village, has brought clean, safe water to the community.
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One of Africa’s most populated and poorest countries, Ethiopia is faced with frequent droughts and food shortages.
More than 40 per cent of the country’s 74 million people live on less than one dollar a day.
Most Ethiopians rely on farming and cattle-herding to feed their families and make a living. But increasing droughts, irregular rains and poor soil caused by overgrazing and deforestation mean crops and livestock are suffering, and food supply is at risk for over 13 million people.
CAFOD works with our sister agencies Trocaire and SCIAF in Ethiopia, to reduce the burden on our local partners and ensure we are as effective as possible in our work there. Currently we are:
- helping to improve long-term farming conditions
- supporting people living with HIV and community building
- providing emergency food rations to malnourished children, pregnant women, and new mothers
- supplying herding communities with water and animal feed.
In 2011, Ethiopia and its neighbours were the focus of our major East Africa Crisis appeal.
