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Current AffairsPeople in Need finds six thousand starving refugees in Ethiopia
The Czech charity organisation People in Need working in south-eastern
Ethiopia has found a group of roughly six thousand people suffering from
hunger and malnourishment. Known for working in remote areas, the
organisation was near the Somali border looking into the state of a group
of local herdsmen whose cattle had died out and found that they had been
joined by several thousand drought refugees from neighbouring Somalia.
Local communities have been trying to care for the refugees so far, but
their material support - water, food and firewood – is quickly running
out, children are dying on a weekly basis, and the group has not yet even
received refugee status by the Ethiopian government. Earlier today I spoke
by phone with People in Need’s coordinator Marek Štys, who is currently
in the Somali region of Ethiopia and described the situation. More
PanoramaCaritas providing all-round assistance in Uganda
The Prague branch of the Christian charity Caritas is involved in aid and
development projects in many parts of the world, among them India, Zambia,
Congo and Uganda. Its work in Uganda, east Africa, spans a decade and
involves a broad range of activities. Petra Matulova, Caritas development
centre director, explains how one form of assistance led to another. More
One on OneFabrice Martin-Plichta – a journalist helping deliver “waste” foodstuffs to those in need
Le Monde correspondent Fabrice Martin-Plichta has been living in Prague
since before the Velvet Revolution. Indeed, the French journalist was
working here at Radio Prague when those momentous changes occurred. Since
2004, Martin-Plichta has also been the head of the Czech Federation of Food
Banks, an organisation which every year saves hundreds of tonnes of food
from being destroyed and distributes it among the needy. More
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