ShareAlthough he’s based in Brooklyn, filmmaker Peter Buntaine’s mind is far away these days. He is preparing to film a feature length documentary in Ethiopia titled “Church Forest.” The film is about the last pieces of Northern Ethiopia’s once contiguous forest, the inhabitants living within the forest and the danger of deforestation facing these...
ShareActor became inspired to launch new business after pledging to help an Ethiopian coffee farmer and his community. Hugh Jackman is no stranger to the charity scene, but his latest effort to help make a difference is a few steps beyond your average PSA or short-lived campaign. The 43-year-old star of both film and...
ShareMoved and humbled by the fact that blinding diseases can be prevented for as little as 25p, founder of Jemma Kidd Make Up, Jemma Kidd, speaks out on the shocking reality that 10 million people in Ethiopia suffer from disease causing blindness and 100% needlessly so. During a recent trip to Ethiopia with sight-saving...
ShareLong Island-based charity brings orphan to the states for eye procedure By Elana Glowatz Operation Hearts and Home brought Seifu to the U.S. to receive medical care for his eye. Photos from Diane Curley After visiting a Long Island ophthalmologist, Seifu Ababiya Agabide can still only see through one eye, but he’s a little...
ShareBy: Joe DeCapua More than three thousand Ethiopian migrants – who risked their lives leaving the Horn of Africa – find themselves stranded in Yemen, near the Saudi Arabian border. The migrants want to return home, but the International Organization for Migration said it has no money to evacuate them. Lives at risk The...
ShareBy: Lisa Schlein The United Nations refugee agency reports death rates in one of four refugee camps at the Dollo Ado complex in Ethiopia have reached alarming levels. The UNHCR says it suspects a combination of measles and malnutrition brought on by famine is the major cause of death. More than 118,000 Somalis live...
ShareJournal from the field #2, May 31, 2011 Dr. Aronson in Ethiopia, May 23-27, 2011 I’ve traveled from Ethiopia to Bulgaria and am finally adjusting to the seven-hour time difference both countries share with New York. Still having some trouble sleeping, but making some progress, though last night I had a nightmare about lice…...
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