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An elder sharing a meal provided through an Atis Nama Foundation program
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Field Notes
Featured · Addis Ababa · Community · March 2026

A kitchen that feeds ninety elders

Four hours to cook, twenty minutes to serve. Every Saturday a rented courtyard in Addis Ababa becomes a dining room.

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Nekemte, Oromia · Education

The notebooks arrived before the rains

A distribution timed to the school calendar, not the donation calendar.

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Nekemte, Oromia · Education

Bekelech went back to school at forty-one

The community learning centre runs classes after the market closes.

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Guto Gida · Healthcare

The clinic day that found three cases early

Screening in a borrowed classroom, referrals the same afternoon.

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