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Netsanet: Beauty and two dollars a day

April 1, 2009

This is Netsanet.

She’s one of those fundamentally beautiful people. She can’t hide it. Everyone notices.

When we’re not doing photo shoots, she works with us here at Practica/IDE in Addis Ababa. A big part of our program involves helping $1 to $3-a-day farmers.

Netsanet is the office/guesthouse maid. We pay Netsanet $2 a day. When the [...]

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The Disappearance of Coca Cola

March 27, 2009

Ethiopia has some structural challenges. There are often electricity outages. For the minority that has access to municipal water supply, the taps run dry with frustrating frequency. Mobile phone networks fail to connect calls more often than they allow them. Internet, even using dial-up, is sporadic and unpredictable. This adds a level of complexity to [...]

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Just another Pinch me day in Ethiopia

March 14, 2009

Thursday, March 12, 2009 (or sometime in July 2001, Ethiopian calendar):
It happened somewhere between Mekele and Aggaretselam, along the dirt road, flying along a ridge deep in the Ethiopian highlands. This is desert country, especially this time of year. The area is valleys, hills, mountains, and plateaus, all littered with villages. The colours really fail [...]

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