'I can’t stop the war, but I can do something,” says DemeraChicago's Tigist Reda about her fundraising efforts on behalf of refugees from the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia's Tigray region.
and others for Ukraine. “I was glad to do it—I know what they’re going through,” she explains. “But it started a conversation: ‘By the way, do you know this is also happening in Ethiopia and Tigray?’ So we asked the chefs, and they were like, ‘Definitely, we’ll do it.’ I’m hoping it’s much, much bigger than what I was able to do on my own.”, which has set up wellness centers, pharmacies, and operating rooms for delivering babies in the refugee camps in Sudan.
“My focus has been especially women that have experienced gender-based violence but also children,” she says. “We saw a lot of malnutrition within the kids at the age which affects their development. We wanted to fill in that gap. Kids coming to school hungry was…It just came close to my heart because I have an 11 year-old, and food is what I do.”
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