Eritrea: Refugee Trust sowing some seeds of hope

21 Feb, 2006

'HOME-grown miracles for Eritrea' is the name of the latest campaign to aid the people of the developing world from the charity Refugee Trust.

Steve Humphreys' picture shows Irish gardener Diarmuid Gavin with a Moringa Tree in the Botanic Gardens, Dublin with Jamie Lawless (7) from Blanchardstown and Danait Haile (12) from Balbriggan.

The new campaign aims to encourage members of the public to raise money to provide families in Eritrea with the equipment and the education required to plant and cultivate the Moringa Tree.

Eritrea is a small country in the Horn of Africa extending along the Red Sea between Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti. The country gained its independence from Ethiopia after a war over 30 years, and left the countryside devastated.

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