Independent.ie journalist Catherine Devine received funding under the summer 2017 round to travel to Ethiopia to report on gender inequality and violence, and the efforts of aid organisations to help women overcome domestic abuse. Her project also explored what is being done to progress women’s rights and equality in the country. Catherine had an article […]
Ethiopia: Empowering women to fight against gender inequality and violence
Independent.ie journalist Catherine Devine received funding under the summer 2017 round to travel to Ethiopia to report on gender inequality and violence, and the efforts of aid organisations to help women overcome domestic abuse. Her project also explored what is being done to progress women’s rights and equality in the country. Catherine had an article […]
From Dublin to Ethiopia – where education is the jewel in their crown
By Catherine Devine On the streets of Ethiopia, ghosts line the crowded paths. Men, women and children sprawl across the dusty, filthy streets draped in white shawls with empty stares. The hope has gone from their eyes as they lie starving by the side of the road. Ethiopia is much poorer than I could ever […]