Ethiopian maid saves employer’s drowning son in Saudi Arabia

Emirates247 An Ethiopian housemaid saved the life of her employer’s eight-year-old son after he nearly drowned in a swimming pool in the Gulf kingdom, prompting his father to reward her, a newspaper reported on Monday. The boy was with his parents at a public rest house in the capital Riyadh when he slipped and fell

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Ethiopian Women Make Most of Zero-Interest Loans

By Masha Hamilton Ethiopia has a strong economy for sub-Saharan Africa but women disproportionately bear the burden of the country’s hardships. Through a micro-lending support group, our organization, Concern Worldwide, has found a way to help. Misrach Salgado has been taking small interest-free loans to start her own business in Ethiopia. Credit: Cheney Orr HOMA, Ethiopia (WOMENSENEWS)–Misrach

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Women in Ethiopia struggle to survive without water

MSNBC By Mustafah Abdulaziz and Johnny Simon Photo by Mustafah Abdulaziz In the Konso Region of southern Ethiopia, the struggle for clean, safe water is a daily reality for women and young girls. “Bringing the water is not a simple task,” says Mariam Bakaule, a mother standing at the edge of the mountaintop village of Jarso. “This is

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Women in Ethiopia struggle to survive without water

MSNBC By Mustafah Abdulaziz and Johnny Simon Photo by Mustafah Abdulaziz In the Konso Region of southern Ethiopia, the struggle for clean, safe water is a daily reality for women and young girls. “Bringing the water is not a simple task,” says Mariam Bakaule, a mother standing at the edge of the mountaintop village of Jarso. “This is

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10 things I learned about Ethiopia in two weeks trip

By Lisa Bloom ETHIOPIA! What I learned in our two week trip, which just ended. (Now I’m in Israel on a very different kind of trip for the next ten days.) My highlights: 1. Ethiopians are the friendliest people I’ve met in my lifetime of travels to about 60 countries. It was just a constant

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