Conscious Mom

The mainstream media has finally gotten around to reporting on the famine gripping Ethiopia. Here is CNN's story. The New York Times describes the reasons behind the famine, and discusses other countries in the Horn of Africa affected by it. The Washington Post has a good article, too. Every news story features a family and child suffering to try to put a human face on the catastrophe. This post is no different. Last March we were in the affected region when we visited Maia's birth family; here are some of the people we met while there, some of the people that now might not have enough food or water: ...