THANK YOU – our review of 2024
Thanks to your support, we were once again able to achieve a great deal in 2024! Your donations and commitment have helped countless people in need - THANK YOU for being part of our caravan!
The right to education – also among the Afar
What seems completely normal to our children - going to school every day - is another achievement for the Afar as a nomadic people.
Agricultural project: sowing seeds for the future
As we have already reported, the Afar are a pastoral people and traditionally do not farm. Due to the increasingly long periods of drought ...
The shepherd and nomadic people of the Afar
Nature has divided our little blue planet into different continents - whether there are five or seven is open to debate.
Senseless bloodshed – the civil war in Ethiopia
A bloody civil war raged in northern Ethiopia until November 2022. So this ended only a few months before our arrival.
A place of hope: the maternity ward in Mile
Once upon a time, the Afar region was at the top of the world. Unfortunately, in a negative sense: it was one of the regions with the highest maternal mortality rates in the world ...
When water is scarce…
Here in the Afar region, there is one acute concern above all: water! Far too little of this has simply fallen from the sky in recent months.
The white Afar
We also worked with a partner organization in Ethiopia: The name of this organization is APDA and it supports the pastoralist and nomadic people of the Afar.
Tackling the root causes of flight
Until now, only a few people knew that: In mid-February, the Karawanis Pascal, Bruno and Caso traveled to Ethiopia to support the pastoralist Afar people there. But why Ethiopia?