Growing Nutrition for Mothers and Children (GROW) Project in Ethiopia - End Line Household Survey Report
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1. Background to the GROW Project
CARE International has been implementing a project entitled “Growing Nutrition for Mothers and Children (GROW)” in East and West Hararghe Zones of Oromia regional state and Guanine and Argoba Woredas of Afar regional state, Ethiopia. The GROW project in Ethiopia was part of the Government of Canada s 3.5 billion CAD commitment to improving the health of mothers, new-borns and children. The project was part of CARE Canada’s Sub-Saharan African Nutrition Program, which includes the GROW project along with the Southern African Nutrition Initiative (Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia) funded through the Partnership for Strengthening Maternal, Newborn and Child Health.
Last Updated: Friday, February 12, 2021 14:26
Loujain al-Hathloul, whose fight for human rights–especially women’s rights–touched hearts around the world, appears to have emerged triumphant–for now– from a Saudi prison after a long battle with authorities who kept her behind bars but never managed to break her spirit.
After nearly three years in the kingdom’s Ha’er Prison, where she told her family she had been held in solitary confinement and subjected to electrocution, flogging and sexual assault, al-Hathloul, a 31-year-old graduate of the University of British Columbia, was released on parole by Saudi authorities on Wednesday.
Her sister Lina tweeted the news.
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He kept going, trying to find a place where, if he succumbed to the cold, someone would stumble across his body and tell his family what happened to him. Then he saw the Turkish border fence in the distance, and called the country s emergency line for help.
Mosaed is now in hiding in Turkey, worried that Iranian authorities will follow him across the border and bring him home in handcuffs or worse.
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