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TODAY o July 20, 2000
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Area drought not so bad?
Saeed Ahmed - Staff
Thursday, July 20, 2000
Watering restrictions, brown lawns and unwashed cars can be most annoying. But officials with
CARE, the Atlanta based relief and development organization, think Georgians can put their troubles in
perspective by comparing the effects of this area's three-year drought with that of Ethiopia.
An estimated 8 million people in the East African nation face food shortages and possible famine as a
result of a drought that has plagued the Horn of Africa since 1998.
But unlike the government of Georgia, which is allocating money for grants and other programs to
help farmers ride out this area's drought, the government of Ethiopia is spending $1 million a day on its
military.
That has left organizations such as CARE scrambling to prevent the crisis from turning into a
full-blown famine.
CARE has distributed thousands of tons of food and provided access to water by building cisterns,
wells and boreholes. It is also running a de-stocking program that enables Ethiopians to sell their
weakened cattle in return for grain. CARE distributes the beef as a dietary supplement, turning 1,000
cows into almost 9,000 pounds of jerky per month.
Abby Maxman, East Africa deputy regional director for CARE, believes that most communities can
survive the drought --- but only if food from donor countries arrives in time.
"Unfortunately, in a slow-onset emergency such as this, it often takes things to get very bad before
donors kick into action," she said.
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