The document provides details from a tour of food security projects supported by the Canadian Food Grain Bank in Ethiopia. It describes visits to projects in Debre Tabor and Lalibela. In Debre Tabor, it discusses an orphan and vulnerable children project providing educational support. It then details a visit to a third project site in Lalibela, implemented by Canadian Lutheran World Relief, that provides food or cash for labor to construct irrigation and support soil conservation, improving food production. The document shares photos from farm fields and meetings with project participants in Lalibela.

1. Canadian Food Grain Bank
Ethiopia Projects Tour
February 2019
Part Two
Debre Tabor and Lalibela

2. Site of 2nd Project at Debre Tabor
is Next Right

3. The Orphan & Vulnerable Children (OVC)
Project at Debre Tabor

4. US AID Works With FH Ethiopia to Provide
Emergency Food Relief at Debre Tabor

5. Three Projects Overall at Debre Tabor

6. Orphan and Vulnerable Children
Project
Partnering NGOs are CFGB, World Renew, FH Ethiopia

7. Calendar Period for Project, Donor Agencies,
Implementing Partner and Project Budget

8. Educational Support is Provided to OVC
Project Students

9. Outstanding OVC Achievers
Three Recent University Graduates Introduced
to Us by Genet Hailu OVC Project Manager

10. A Few of the 120 OVC Project
Volunteer Teachers

11. Sam With OVC Program Volunteer
Teacher

12. Eight of the 80 OVC Program
Voluntary Caregivers Are Pictured Below

13. Orphan & Vulnerable Children Project

14. Orphan & Vulnerable Children Project

15. OVC Project Leaders With Volunteer
Teachers and CFGB Tour Members

16. Now En-Route to 3rd CFGB Project Site
From Debre Tabor to Lalibela

17. Prime Source of Motive Power in
Rural Ethiopia

18. A Watershed Area of Blue Nile Plateau

19. Lalibela/CFGB Project Visit No. 3
Participating Agency: Canada Food Grains Bank
Implementing Agency: Canadian Lutheran World Relief/
Lutheran World Federation
Project Description: Provides food and/or cash in exchange
for labour to construct permanent irrigation systems and
support soil and water conservation activities for improved
household food production near Lalibela.

20. View From Lalibela Hotel Room

21. Canadian Lutheran World Relief/Lutheran
World Federation is CFGB Partner Agency

22. Lalibela Project Manager Mogus With
Local Agriculture Representative

23. Principles of Conservation Farming Are of
Continuing Importance
Residue From Previous
Grain Crop Remains on this
Lalibela Field
Residue on this Field is
From Previous Teff Crop

24. Part of the Lalibela Watershed Project

25. Stream Bank Erosion Indicates Heavy
Water Flow in Rainy Season

26. Now in Dry Season/Stream Beds are
Dry Throughout Lalibela
Andre Visscher Photo

27. Conditions Are Challenging
Andree Visscher Photo

28. Newly Built Structure to Better Manage
Rainy Season Water Flow

29. Three Lalibela Field Staff, Participating Farmer With Chris
Lea of Manitou MB and Bob Turner of Winnipeg

30. On-Site Project Manager Mr. Mogus Speaks With
CFGB Participants After Walking Project Site

31. Looking Down From Lalibela at Wider Area of
Water Catchment Basin

32. A Few of the Lalibela Farmer Participants with
Field Supervisor Mr. Abiy (Orange Shirt)
Kent Myer Montague PEI (in Blue )

33. As Elsewhere the Donkey Is Important to
Household Food Production in Lalibela

34. Superb Hospitality Included Traditional Meal of
Injera Served With Roasted Goat Meat & Coffee
Kent Myer, Montague PEI Pictured With Project Manager
Mogus and Allan Sorflaten Brookfield NS

35. Cavalcade of 3 Sturdy Land Cruisers and Our
Reliable Habisha Drivers
Thanks Guys For Your Care and Caution

36. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1fkiARlRbc
Are Other Farmers Adapting The Conservation Farming Methods?
MSCFSO/CFGB Project Debre Marcos Ethiopia Feb 5 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1fkiARlRbc
Script from this movie clip:
Sam Vander Ende, Ethiopian Regional Rep for CFGB asks, “Scaling up the
project, at some point you have a threshold of adaptors, then it will be
spontaneously adopted by the community. What evidence do you see so
far of the 10-12 years that we have been engaged in watershed
rehabilitation that the communities where you have been that they are
now doing their own watershed rehabilitation”.
Yihenew, MSCFSO Program Director responds: ”Good question. Very
difficult to address all the areas which are affected by land derogation. If
you group the highland areas, most of the farmers are totally covering the
land with trees. You go to other areas and farmers are taking their soil to
the market. So our objective is to show. We can visit the first project we
started in 2008. We are the one who first started such works and we got
the Green Award from the President. So subsequently in the water shed
area. The community developed a sense of ownership. That is one of the
indications of what we have seen.”
Sam: How long did you support it?
Yihenew: “Until they were ready to spread their wings. One project, 3-4
years. All you can do is show the farmers how to improve their livelihood
starting from their soil. After that the government can replicate to other
areas.”