Members of the Afar Community of Ottawa gathered on July 30, 2022 to celebrate the visit to Canada of the Executive Director of the Afar Pastoralist Association (APDA) – Mr. Ismail Ali Gardo – and also of Professor Houssein Ibrahim Houmed, Professor of Philosophy, based in France.
The Afar Community in Ottawa has lost an iconic figure who added courage and strength to their lives.
Please read our letter addressed to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, concerning the Conflict in Tigray and Border Regions of Ethiopia.
After a day-long journey by road from Afar to Djibouti, the Can-Go Afar Mission 12 team had enough time to fit in a quick dinner and sleep before kicking off the final leg of our trip: a visit to our first funded project in the small French- and Arabic-speaking country.This trip marks the second time … Continue reading Livestock Challenge Day Eight: Fostering learning in the desert
After three days visiting our project partners in the Afar region of Ethiopia, the Can-Go Afar team was ready to set out on another leg of our journey, this time to neighbouring Djibouti where we are actively engaged in supporting the Afar community there.Though the total number of Afar living in Ethiopia outnumber those in … Continue reading Livestock Challenge Day Seven: Journey to Djibouti
Mille is a moderate-sized Afar town about 90 minutes south of Semera that, on first glance, virtually indistinguishable from any of the other towns along the busy Djibouti-Addis highway. Pay a visit and you’ll notice a number of restaurants, a few hotels, and an assortment of stores and shops, all of which exist primarily to … Continue reading Livestock Challenge Day Six: Saving Lives in Mille
Following an arduous (and hot) morning trip to check out the first of five water reservoirs being built in the Afar region of Ethiopia with support from The Can-Go Afar Foundation, the mission trip team spent the afternoon of Day Five heading even further afield, to an Afar village so remote it didn’t even have … Continue reading Livestock Challenge Day Five (Part Two): To Biru and Beyond
After a Friday spent in Semera and nearby Loggia, the Can-Go Afar team woke up Saturday with one goal: to travel to the remote northern region of Bidu (pronounced biru in Afar) to check on the progress of a weir, or water reservoir, that is being built with some of the 1 million ETB (Ethiopian … Continue reading Livestock Challenge Day Five (Part One): The Hard Road to Bidu
As much as we enjoy Addis Abeba, after two days the Can-Go Afar team had collectively spent enough time in the urban jungle that is Ethiopia’s capital city. So, on Friday we packed our bags, bid farewell to Addis, and boarded an 8 a.m. flight to Semera, the capital of the Afar State. Within an … Continue reading Livestock Challenge Day Three & Four: From Addis to Afar
Today was Can-Go Afar Mission 12 team’s second day in Ethiopia, and we awoke to a cool and crisp day Addis Abeba. Our day got off to a great when we met with two Afar post-secondary students that Can-Go Afar supports in their studies in the capital city. Yusuf Issa, a second-year Nursing student, and … Continue reading Livestock Challenge Day Two: On the Ground
