Comments on: Story of our trip to Ethiopia http://www.owen.org/blog/1148 Thoughts on development and beyond Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian Barder http://www.owen.org/blog/1148/comment-page-1#comment-845 Brian Barder Thu, 06 Jan 2005 19:16:07 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/?p=26#comment-845 I strongly endorse (from the experience of having lived and worked in Ethiopia for four years in the 1980s, a time of tragic famine and heroic famine relief) this invitation, not only to visit a remarkable website, fascinating to couch potatoes as well as cyclists, but also to visit Ethiopia and spend money there to help its development. It's time to shed those out-of-date associations between Ethiopia and starving babies. I'll be putting some thoughts about that, and a heartfelt advertisement for the Ethiopia cycling website, on my own blog shortly -- see http://ephems.blogspot.com. (Yes, we *are* by any chance related.)<br /> <br /> BLB<br /> 6 Jan 05 I strongly endorse (from the experience of having lived and worked in Ethiopia for four years in the 1980s, a time of tragic famine and heroic famine relief) this invitation, not only to visit a remarkable website, fascinating to couch potatoes as well as cyclists, but also to visit Ethiopia and spend money there to help its development. It's time to shed those out-of-date associations between Ethiopia and starving babies. I'll be putting some thoughts about that, and a heartfelt advertisement for the Ethiopia cycling website, on my own blog shortly — see http://ephems.blogspot.com. (Yes, we *are* by any chance related.)

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