Choosing education over marriage

15/10/2012

Ethiopia has one of the highest rates of early marriage in the world, but educating girls can cause these rates to decline as they will be empowered to have an active voice in decision making.

4,000 children run to end violence in schools

28/11/2011

For the third year running, Plan opened the Great Ethiopian Children's race, which saw more than 4,000 children run 1.4km through the centre of Addis Ababa to raise awareness of Plan's global campaign to end violence in schools.

Ethiopia drought: A mother's plea

22/08/2011 (Ethiopia, 1.12 mins)

Meet Meselech - a 30-year-old mother struggling to feed her 5 malnourished children through the drought in southern Ethiopia.

Half will go hungry unless rich nations act now

05/08/2011

The UN says it needs US$2 billion for the drought crisis but only half has been pledged, blogs Plan's disaster response policy coordinator Unni Krishnan from Ethiopia.

Running out of time in Ethiopia

05/08/2011

Time is running out to save children caught up in the drought crisis, blogs Plan's disaster response policy coordinator Dr Unni Krishnan from Ethiopia.