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Birhan T/medhin (left), 40, and her four children share a meal she cooked using rations she received from the Joint Emergency Operation Program, at their home in Mezutey, Hawzen district, in Misraqawi Zone of the Tigray Region, Ethiopia, on February 6, 2019.
When recurrent droughts lead to crop failures in Ethiopia, it can leave families with little or nothing to eat. The Joint Emergency Operation Program (JEOP) distributes wheat, yellow split peas and cooking oil to targeted beneficiaries. In 2018 alone, funding from USAID helped CRS and its partners provide emergency food assistance to more than 1.5 million food insecure people, plus another 506,000 people displaced in southwestern Ethiopia due to ongoing security issues.
“I was targeted for support because my crop was destroyed. The drought is becoming recurrent. We have not seen an improvement in the climate situation. If there is rain, it is excessive rain and destroys the crops. So we are becoming dependent on food aid. My family consumes the food I grow. We don’t sell anything. Even in normal conditions it is not enough to feed the family,” Birhan said.
Photo by Will Baxter/Catholic Relief Services
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Birhan T/medhin (left), 40, and her four children share a meal she cooked using rations she received from the Joint Emergency Operation Program, at their home in Mezutey, Hawzen district, in Misraqawi Zone of the Tigray Region, Ethiopia, on February 6, 2019.
When recurrent droughts lead to crop failures in Ethiopia, it can leave families with little or nothing to eat. The Joint Emergency Operation Program (JEOP) distributes wheat, yellow split peas and cooking oil to targeted beneficiaries. In 2018 alone, funding from USAID helped CRS and its partners provide emergency food assistance to more than 1.5 million food insecure people, plus another 506,000 people displaced in southwestern Ethiopia due to ongoing security issues.
“I was targeted for support because my crop was destroyed. The drought is becoming recurrent. We have not seen an improvement in the climate situation. If there is rain, it is excessive rain and destroys the crops. So we are becoming dependent on food aid. My family consumes the food I grow. We don’t sell anything. Even in normal conditions it is not enough to feed the family,” Birhan said.
Photo by Will Baxter/Catholic Relief Services