Quilt-making workshop

Quilt-making workshop [Mango/EthiopiaLives]

On the way to the goats

On the way to the goats [Workneh Tibebu/EthiopiaLives.net]

Ethiopian street children

Andy Lewis with a group of Ethiopian street children [CAFOD]

Runners

Runners with their medals [CAFOD]

Mike Coote

CAFOD volunteer Mike Coote visited Ethiopia to meet communities involved in water conservation schemes. [CAFOD]

Harvest Fast Day 06 - Ato

Ato Bulcha Jema and his community have been supported as they as they strive for a future without hunger [Carol Lee]

EthiopiaLives - Almaz

Alamesh "Almaz" Wledgiorgis, aged 24, is originally from Alitena, 155km north of the Tigray capital, Mekele, where her family are subsistence farmers [CAFOD]

EthiopiaLives - homework

Meley helping her sister with her study and homework [Almaz]

Yusuf in Tigray

Yusuf, 10, and his family have benefited from training to help them grow crops all year round [Noel Gavin/Allpix/Trocaire]

Woman in doorway

Workwuha Showandgnew's new house was built by CAFOD partner Integrated Holistic Approach [Pieternella Pieterse]

Amane Gemachew

Amane Gemachew and her family will benefit from a CAFOD-funded irrigation project [Chris Bain]

Ethiopia woman with chicken

A regular gift can mean that women like Maymuna Salih are provided with specially-bred chickens that lay enough eggs to sell in the local market to provide income for her family's future. [Pieternella Pieterse]

Cardinal Hume in Ethiopia

Cardinal Hume visited Ethiopia with CAFOD in 1984 [Carlos Reyes Manzo]

Ethiopia lives - carrying child

Mulu is carrying her child on her back in the traditional way with material made from leather and decorated with shells [Almaz]

EthiopiaLives - beti

Betelhem "Beti" Abate, aged 18, lives in the capital Addis Ababa with her parents, grandmother, her twin sister Yordanos and two older sisters [CAFOD]

EthiopiaLives - kid and mother goat

A kid feeding on a mother goat in Dharito village, Yabello [Borbor]

Ethipia lives - Borbor and Karayour

Borbor (left) and Karayour getting to grips with their new cameras [CAFOD]

EthiopiaLives - Dama

Dama Boru is 38 with three sons and a daughter. She owns her own small shop on the roadside between Yabelo and Mega, the capital of Dirre district [CAFOD]

EthiopiaLives - Gifts for a naming ceremony

Gifts for a naming ceremony [Dama]

EthiopiaLives - a girl called love

Fikir, meaning love, is Beti's neighbour [Beti]

EthiopiaLives - baby

[Beti]

EthiopiaLives - Wako

Wako is a customer of Dama's. Like her husband, he is a cattle merchant [Dama]

Bishop Rawsthorne

Bishop Rawsthorne tastes clean water from a CAFOD-funded pipe [Chris Bain]

Ethiopian potter

A potter at a CAFOD-funded income generating project [Chris Bain]

International Womens Day

[Annie Bungeroth]

Woman working

Pictures showing the everyday lives of ordinary Ethiopians are rarely seen in the UK [Annie Bungeroth]

Ethiopia famine

Most NGOs now question whether using such shocking images within their own publicity materials sits well with their ethos of preserving "human dignity" and avoiding "stereotypes" [anonymous]

The Long Wait frontcover

Report: The Long Wait. Ethiopia and the Millennium Development Goals [CAFOD]

Daniel Abate Addis Ababa

Young people sharing their views in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [Annie Bungeroth]

Two musicians

Members of the Ethiopian Gemini Trust music group, Addis Ababa [Annie Bungeroth]

Bain in Ethiopia

CAFOD Director Chris Bain discusses a bridge-building project with an Ethiopian engineer in January 2004 [CAFOD]

Ethiopian schoolkids

The Catholic Church runs more schools in Ethiopia than anyone apart from the Government [Chris Bain]

Amane Gemachew

Amane has to walk for seven hours to sell her maize flour at the nearest market [Chris Bain]

Tigray farmer

A Tigray farmer in his drought afflicted field [Sean Sprague]

Hands holding coffee cherries

Young farmer Habitamum harvests his coffee crop [Carol Lee]

Farmer

Abdula Ossman is head of a water committee in Jello village where a CAFOD-funded irrigation project enables farmers to grow crops all year round. [Dario Mitidieri]

Fetiya and fruit tree

Fetiya Hassan received fruit trees from CAFOD partner Self Help Development International. She now sells fruit and tree seedings. [Pieternella Pieterse]

EthiopiaLives - traditional jewellery (landscape)

Mulu Gebre Kiros wearing traditional jewellery made of shells [Alem]

EthiopiaLives - basket weaving

One of the Gemini Trust beneficieries weaving a decorative basket. Basket weaving is one of the job creation schemes at Gemini. The women get an income from the baskets they make. A designer works with the women to help create appealing designs to sell [Mesfin]

Ethiopia Lives - taking photos

Ronaldo taking a photograph of Beti - both part of the EthiopiaLives.net project [Annie Bungeroth]

EthiopiaLives - sibling love

In rural areas older children always take care of their younger ones [Worki]

EthiopiaLives - learning an instrument

A student from a Gemini Trust music class learning to play a traditional Ethiopian instrument [Beti]

Road construction

Road construction up a hillside leading to a new catholic church in the Tigray region [CAFOD]

Villager woman works with a shovel

A villager woman works with a shovel throwing earth on the road surface, while carrying a young infant on her back inside the dark cloth she is wearing [CAFOD]

EthiopiaLives - traditional jewellery

Mulu Gebre Kiros wearing traditional jewellery made of shells [Alem]

EthiopiaLives - chasing the flies

The church warden in Mekelle is chasing away flies [Mango]

Women working on road construction

Some women working on this road construction project carry children on their backs in simple leather and cowrie shell harnesses, despite the difficult and arduous work of carrying rocks up the hillside [CAFOD]

EthiopiaLives - woman chopping onions

Alefu's sister chopping onions on Easter Saturday at the end of the family's two month fast for Lent (eating only vegetarian food with no dairy products) [Alefu]

EthiopiaLives - woman cleaning her teeth

A woman cleaning her teeth [Ganno]

Archbishop Berhaneyesus

"The Millennium Development Goals are a beautiful thing. But are these promises or just good intentions? Very few rich countries have been willing to carry through with their promises. We need to put G8 to the test."Archbishop Berhaneyesus of Addis Ababa [Patrick Nicholson]

Ethiopian farmers learn about bee-keeping

Local farmers learn about beekeeping from Self-Help Alemeya in Ethiopia [Dario Mitidieri]

Sister Medhin

Sister Medhin Tesfay works as coordinator for the Daughters of Charity, a health and social organisation based in an urban area of Tigray [CAFOD]

Almaze works field

Almaze Jeldo, 40, working in her field with her family. The crops are helped by a CAFOD irrigation project [CAFOD]

EthiopiaLives - my neighbour in the fields

My neighbour [Ara'aya]

Ethiopian women weaving baskets

Ethiopian women weaving baskets [Laura Bigoni]

Mango (EthiopiaLives)

Mango from the EthiopiaLives project with some of his work [Annie Bungeroth]

EthiopiaLives - Mango's prize-winning entry

Mango's prize-winning entry from the Empowering Rural Livelihoods in Ethiopia competition [Mango]

Care for tree seedlings

Genet, Abeba, Aron and Alem care for tree seedlings at this nursery before they are planted in the open fields and mountains of Ethiopia [Freweini Gebre Mariam/Ethiopialives.net]