Trip to Ethiopia is a leap of faith

Star News Online Sarah Isaac, a New Hanover County Schools counselor, poses with kids at the Children of Destiny Academy in Gofa, Ethiopia. Contributed photo By Sarah Isaac I took a leap of faith this summer, choosing to spend a month in Ethiopia. The few trips in high school where I was taken outside of

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In Ethiopia Social Ties Cushion Vulnerable Communities From Disasters

BY BUSANI BAFANA Sustainable Development Alert net Addis Ababa — Funeral societies may make their money from the business of bereavement, but in Ethiopia they are also important social networks that use kinship and trust to cushion communities from the worst effects of disasters. Ethiopian burial and mutual aid societies known as “iddirs” are a

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