More than twenty million people in the Horn of Africa are at risk of dying from starvation due the drought. In Ethiopia, each year as many as 250,000 children die from hunger and malnutrition. In 1994, the country faced a total collapse of its infrastructure. More than eighty percent of the population lived off the land. Harvests of crops such as maize and groundnuts were largely gone, and thousands of cattle and other livestock had been parched …showed first 75 words of 870 total…

…showed last 75 words of 870 total…My time in Ethiopia and my knowledge in the Air Force gave me a perspective from which to understand attitudes toward time, to appreciate the slowness of the Ethiopian people, and to understand that there is more than one right way to do things, including carrying water. It was a heady invitation, asking not what your country could do for you, but what you could do for your country. Here was something I could do.