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The Women’s Self-Help Group of Gende Kore: Changing Lives through Micro-Credit

11/09/2008 by Renate Reichelt, DAHW, translated by ILEP

Leprosy and My Life: Ato Dedo

03/10/2007 by Ato Dedo

The Women’s Self-Help Group of Gende Kore: Changing Lives through Micro-Credit

Posted on 11/09/2008 by Renate Reichelt, DAHW, translated by ILEP

Fatumah belongs to the Gende Kore Women’s Self-help Group of ex-leprosy patients. Fatumah is around fifty years old and like most women in the Group has not had an education. Under the leadership of colleagues from Bisidimo she and more than 30 other poor country women have set up a successful economic co-operative.

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Categories: Ethiopia, Field Activities

Leprosy and My Life: Ato Dedo

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Posted on 03/10/2007 by Ato Dedo

Ato Dedo, the 56 year-old from Ethiopia, had leprosy for 15 years when he was young. Today he is running the Bidisimo Hospital for DAHW, their first project. He tells his life story here.

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Categories: Ethiopia, News and Notes