by MossyFoot | Jan 5, 2014
Earlier this year, we we received a generous gift from a friend of Mossy Foot Project that would allow 100 cataract surgeries to be completed for mossy foot patients. Since then, clinic workers have been identifying patients who qualify for surgery, and recently the...
by MossyFoot | Dec 21, 2013
Sharon Daly recently returned from five weeks in Ethiopia. The following story describes one of the highlights of her trip: attending the wedding of a young woman treated for mossy foot by her father many years ago. The following is Sharon’s story of Sitenna and...
by MossyFoot | Dec 21, 2013
I was born in Sholia Kodo, a small town near Soddo, the fourth among eight brothers and sisters. In my village, some children went to school, but others had to tend their family’s cattle. The cattle grazed in swampy areas where wet grass grows on muddy islands and...
by MossyFoot | Dec 6, 2013
Megiso Mena was born in a remote area of Woilatta and never had the opportunity to attend school, but he was talented and hardworking and became a successful farmer. He also grew and traded coffee. Because he had money and was strong, his neighbors respected him and...
by MossyFoot | Nov 24, 2013
Sharon Daly has been in Ethiopia for three weeks on her current visit. Her traveling companion on this trip, Vera Chosenko, is just now flying home and Sharon will be in Ethiopia for a two more weeks. Sharon is grateful for the timing of Vera’s visit. Her...
by MossyFoot | Nov 17, 2013
If I stay longer in Soddo, I am sure I will get well completely. Then when I get back to my home, I can start school. I want to be a doctor when I get older so I can help people in the way I have been helped. Abraham Fantahun was 13 when he first came to the Mossy...
