Her influence has been transformative for the 1.5 million Afar, in everything from education to health care, even dam building. Hamlin offered Browning a job and later he started her organisation’s first regional fistula hospital where he and two Ethiopian nurses operated on up to 700 fistula patients annually. Knowing more hospitals were desperately needed beyond Ethiopia, Browning set up a foundation so he could build his own in other locations. “For meat, you’d buy a live goat or sheep and slaughter it at home because that was the culture. Then you’d hope the electricity didn’t fail, which it did a lot, so the fridge wouldn’t work.”

Source: Ethiopian News October 01, 2020 07:07 UTC