PHOTOS | A Christmas Miracle in Ethiopia

12:26 PM, Jan 27, 2012   |    comments
  • Little Elsa Getahun has HIV and no other choice but to live in bombed out building without electricity or sanitation, and yet she seems so strong and determined.
  • This is one of the buildings simply known as the poor house. Some 200 kids, most of them with HIV live here with there parent if their parents are still alive.
  • This is the ambulance that Bill Liss was able to get for the people of Harar Ethiopia. I have a thing where I always take our Education Reporter Donna Lowry's photo with me and take a picture of me holding it. It's just like flat Stanley. So far I've taken Donna to three Continents. Hopefully she will get to all seven.
  • Sebri Omer with many of the kids living in the Poor House. Most of them have HIV.
  • Poverty is every where and intense in Harar. Most of the people here live off just a few dollars a day.
  • The people of Ethiopia are such beautiful people. This woman is a traditional dancer at restaurant in the Capital city of Addis Ababa.
  • This woman lives with her kids in a bombed out building without a roof, but somehow she's stronger than her circumstances.
  • Poverty is everywhere here, but the people of Ethiopia are so proud of who they are.
  • The sun setting over the mountainous desert near Harer, Ethiopia.
  • This is one of Sebri Omer's relatives and he just looked so happy to me.
  • The Streets of Harar are always packed with people working and doing business.
  • Pretty much everything has to be done by hand here. These people live in a group of bombed out buildings, but yet they all seem alive and ready to contribute to where they live.
  • I saw this girl running down the road and just thought she looked like an angel.
  • Harar is an ancient walled city. Some of the Mosqes and Churches here are nearly a century old. This is the main gate into the old city.
  • In the old city of Harar many of the streets are very narrow and hold so much mystery and intrigue.
  • Poverty and the wounds of war can be seen everywhere in Harar, Ethiopia
    
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Written by
Stephen Boissy

HARAR, Ethiopia -- Harar is a place with really only two kinds of people. Those who make $1, maybe $2...and those with nothing at all.

But they're also a proud people with a rich culture and history dating back thousands of years. And they look out for each other, no matter how far apart they are.

Help Desk | A Christmas Miracle in Ethiopia

11Alive photojournalist Stephen Boissy traveled to Harar with a native son who spends most of the year in metro Atlanta and the rest of his time helping heal his people back home.

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