Afar Pastoralist Development Association

3 years ago

In one of the harshest places to live on Earth, the nomadic people who call the Afar home depend on rain and the dams that it fills for survival. At the Bargaale dam in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, a miracle used to occur every day. Literally t...

Restoring an oasis – building dams to sustain life in the Afar

4 years ago

Water supplies in the Unduru region of Afar, Ethiopia, are increasingly perilous. Our new activities of reconstructing existing, and building new dams will ensure that when it does rain, the Afar people will have life saving water reserves. ...

Final AACES reports

5 years ago

As many of you will be aware, our wonderful Australia Africa Community Engagement Scheme (AACES) project in Ethiopia and Kenya ended last year. The final reports for the project are now available for you to download for free. The reports show the impact of...

Choosing a road less travelled

6 years ago

Anglican Overseas Aid was recently privileged to organise an evening with Australian nurse and midwife, Valerie Browning. Visiting Australia and New Zealand from her home in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, Valerie spoke to a group of about 40 people ...

Support Valerie Browning’s work in Ethiopia

7 years ago

The Afar region of Ethiopia is one of the toughest places in the world to live. It has some of the hottest inhabited places on Earth – some areas exceed 50 degrees Celsius in the hot season. The Afar people, who are primarily Islamic, live a traditional sem...