Jill Clare Mowbray
Jill Clare Mowbray is a British nurse working on Medecins Sans Frontieres' (MSF) nutritional emergency programme in southern Ethiopia. She is in charge of the outreach therapeutic programme of Hadero, one of the districts where MSF has cared for most severely malnourished patients.
AID WORKER DIARY: Birth, barbecued maize and the weekly shop
Many more donkey and carts are seen on a daily basis now, laden with maize, cabbages, bananas and ginger going to and from markets. In most of the areas, there is now a visible reduction in the severe acute malnutrition admissions. Hopefully this trend will continue if the crops are successful and prices stable enough for people to afford to buy and sell their food. And more selfishly, MSF staff are very happy that we can now have a more varied diet. BBQ maize is very good! ...
AID WORKER DIARY: Fighting Ethiopia's food crisis
The journey from Shinshicho to Hadero takes thirty minutes along a pot-holed dirt road. It's difficult to believe that there are so many people starving in the area when you see farmers tending their crops every day. Cattle and goats are a daily scene. Everything is lush, green and quite beautiful. ...
