At the Soddo market

It was the afternoon when we were walking to the market. It is clear from a distance by the selection…

Survival Instinct

Living in a welfare society you don’t perceive instinct of survival that often. Everything necessary for living is at hand,…

The glamour of travel in Ethiopia

Soddo-Addis-Soddo Local transport It’s Thursday. The whole orthodox Ethiopia is preparing for holidays. It’s the baptizing of Jesus holiday, which…

Petros

Petros

While in Africa one of my Ethiopian friends told me that a child we were supporting and who disappeared in…

Back in Soddo

Back in Soddo

This time Africa greeted me with more rain than usually because I did arrive at the end of the rainy…

My first impressions in Africa

My first impressions when I stepped out of Addis Ababa airport on a Sunday morning, 6th of April, were very…

Gratitude

Next to the daily routine here I received a letter from my friend in Bolivia. Every day we find ourselves…

Tamiru’s story

After having been in Ethiopia in the spring of 2010 with Laura Kangur returning to Estonia I felt as if…

Women circumcision

I start my day in a small diner where Emmabeth always makes something with beans, peas, eggs, lentils, tomatoes, onions,…

Two weeks of semester break

Two weeks of semester break ended on Friday. Home visits were planned for the break, to confirm the families’ economic…