Salesian Magazine - Summer/Fall 2021 Issue

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“I am the Bread of Life...” SIMPLE FOOD FOR DISPLACED FAMILIES

Since war first broke out in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia in November 2020, fighting has ravaged the region. The ongoing and bloody conflict has claimed thousands of lives, displaced more than two million people from their homes, and triggered a humanitarian crisis so vast that an estimated four million people – or two-thirds of Tigray’s population – desperately need emergency assistance. And where war happens, hunger inevitably follows. According to official reports, 350,000 people are facing it right now. It’s a “starvation calamity” greater than any other in the world. 22 Summer/Fall 2021


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