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                                                            Travelling across Ethiopia






  by Veronika Fillitz

The country that we call Ethiopia contains a region that is said to be the most important in the history of humanity. It is from what is now the capital, Addis Ababa, that archaeologists will tell us that humans migrated around the world.

For such an important place in the story of mankind, my first impressions of Addis Ababa were rather unremarkable - a sprawling city that could be anywhere in Africa with cars and buses and masses of people hanging around public buildings. But this was a stopping off point for me to travel further into some of the rural areas in Ethiopia and to get a glimpse of the work being done
by the doctors, nurses and support teams of Licht für die Welt - the Austrian charity that helps to bring access to eye-care in some of the most remote regions of the world.