Vjecha, Michael J. (1994) Missiology for a Post-Modern World the Service of Justice and the Refugees of Ethiopia. Licentiate thesis, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.
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Abstract
Last December, Emmanuel died. I returned home that night from Khartoum with two new volunteers who had just arrived from the States to find that Emmanuel had hanged himself in his tukul at camp. Our lab tech, Teferi, Emmanuel's roomate, had gone to fetch'srater that Friday morning and returned shortly thereafter to find him dangling from the thatched roof. Emmanuel was only twenty. Handsome and strong, he had fled war and famine in Eritrea, the nofthernmost province of Ethiopia, in 1985. (Figs. 1-a) He arrived at'\ilflad Sherife, a reception camp on the Sudanese border near Kassala which held at that time more than 150,000 Eritrean refugees. There he trained ,o b..o-e a community health worker and took on the job of home visitor, going daily from tent to tent in his section of the camp to check on the sick, to teach the rudiments of public health, and to count the dead. In Februa ry 1987 Emmanuel moved with 5,000 others to Fau 5, a new settlement for Eritrean refugees over 500 km from the border, where he worked as a registrar in our well-child care clinic. Daily the children came to his clinic to be weighed and to receive their immunizations. He taught mothers the basics of adequate nutrition and the importance of breast feeding. Those who were malnourished he referred to the Feeding Program. He saw almost every child in the camp. Little did we know, much less they, that Emmanuel would never leave Fau 5.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Licentiate) |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion |
| Divisions: | Afro-Christiana |
| Depositing User: | JHI Africa |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Feb 2015 13:57 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Mar 2018 10:10 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/169 |
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