Bernard BOUYE
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“When I discovered I was infected by the HIV virus, I blamed my husband for not having told me about it, and I decided to leave him”.
All that Alem, a 30 year old mother with 3 children, has to maintain her family is a small piece of land given to her by the Ethiopian government.
From Addis-Abeba to Gondar, passing through Bahir Dar, Des-sie, Awassa et Nazreth, about 10.000 people, mostly HIV positive women and children, work on these urban farms. “Thanks to the harvest they can eat healthy food and have an income at the same time”, says Kimberly Flowers, the spokesperson of USAID, an American association which funds the project, one of the most successful in Ethiopia, if not the whole of Africa.
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