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Reducing hunger: what works?
On UN World Food Day, October 16, we took some time to review the UN Food & Agriculture Organization’s (UNFAO’s) latest report on food insecurity: The State of Food Insecurity in the World. The...
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In Conversation With Faisal Islam
ISAPSO Project Coordinator Binyam Solomon (right) with CFTC’s Monitoring & Evaluation Manager, Faisal Islam visiting a project in Chancho, Ethiopia, June 2013.Faisal Islam, Ph.D., is CFTC’s...
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The multiplier effect in Ethiopia
From charcoal to chickens to second chances Asrat and her two youngest children. Her daughter is now a sponsored child through CFTC partner, ISAPSO.We’ve been keeping you up to date on how small-scale...
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Time Treasure Talent: Maurice Walsh Gives Back
Maurice Walsh with two Bolivian friends.Long-time Canadian Feed The Children supporter Maurice Walsh has made it his business to see the work he’s been funding up close and personally. Maurice and his...
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Scholar, soccer player, sponsored child
Chernet in 2008 (age 10), upon enrollment in the CHADET sponsorship program through Canadian Feed The Children. In early 2013, we brought you the story of sponsored child Chernet – then a 14-year-old...
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Great ECCE in Ethiopia
Award-winning Early Childhood Education in Ethiopia Since 2010, Azalech Tadesse has worked as an early childhood care and education (ECCE) facilitator at the Gelan II public primary school and ECCE...
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Livelihoods and Food Security
Linking Livelihoods and Food Security through Nutrition Education in EthiopiaWomen’s co-op group member at her market stall. MCDP, a long-time CFTC partner in Ethiopia, is currently engaged in a...
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Cooking with (bio)gas
In Paris, France, over 80 restaurants signed up to take part in a Spring 2014 pilot project to collect their food waste, which was then used to generate biogas and produce electricity, heat, and...
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Look Back, Pay It Forward
By Debra Kerby, President & CEO2014 has been another extraordinary year in the life of CFTC thanks to you–our generous, compassionate family of supporters. Thank you for all you’ve done in 2014 to...
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Hope flows in Gelan Idero
This month, we bring you an interview with Dema Kecha, age 67, a mother and grandmother who lives in a small village in a rural area outside of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where our local partner Emmanuel...
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Empower women, stop hunger
“Food was the main challenge. We survived on love. How else could we survive?” Marefya Tirfu, age 35, is a mother of two living in Ethiopia. Marefya married her husband as a teenager, and dropped out...
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Sweet success in Ethiopia
Beekeeping brings new livelihoods to Ethiopia’s rural poor Members of the EDA-supported Yelen Queen Bee Multiplication Centre meet to gain and share technical support and build their businesses....
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World Food Day 2015
Drought Again Threatens East Africa It’s been 30 years since the 1984-85 Ethiopian famine that shocked the world and killed an estimated one million people and less than five since the 2011-2012 Horn...
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Barely surviving to thriving
“I was one of the poorest of poor in my community and I was struggling to survive with my two children,” Woinshet Tefera, a 34-year-old widow from a small village outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia told us....
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Helping women farm better
Keeping children safe, providing for their needs, and giving them the opportunities they deserve to flourish are the hopes of parents all over the world. But mothers, in particular, face many barriers...
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Farming: changing the pulse
Ahmed joined MILEAR in 2014 and learned how to grow and sell mung bean, a resilient pulse crop. Ahmed lives in Shekla village in the Eastern Amhara Region of Ethiopia. He has four children – two sons...
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A well full of opportunities
“I used to work as a daily labourer on other people’s farms for a small wage,” Hussien said, reflecting on the challenges he and his wife faced in feeding their children. When their fields could not...
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