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Comedian Tim Vine visits Ethiopia with Tearfund

13/11/2009 09:30:00



Comedian Tim Vine recently visited Ethiopia to see some of the work that Tearfund is involved in, in particular the setting up of water supplies in places that do not have one. See the other two videos he made here: Tim Vine - day 2 in Ethiopia and Tim Vine - day 3 in Ethiopia.

Tearfund has more videos here YouTube - Tearfund's Channel, including a report, posted yesterday, from a Tearfund partner in Kenya helping those affected by the continuing drought. See East Africa food crisis: Kenya update. The Church Times reported last week: Aid ‘desperately needed’ in East Africa, says MU. In that report Grace Cowley from the Mothers Union gives an overview of the situation:

“We have sent out three times as much aid as we did when you last wrote about the situation (News, 21 August). We are at the absolute limit of our reserves. We desperately need money. It is entirely the result of climate change. The farmers used to be able to predict when the rains would come. Now, they don’t know if they will come at all.

“We estimate that 23 million people are directly affected, although it could be double that. We are feeding 60,000 households . . . That’s 600,000 people to whom we wire money so they can buy maize, soya beans, salt, flour, and petrol.”






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