The people are thin. They want to sell anything they might have. Many extend beggar s hands. A significant number are disabled. Illnesses, disease, malaria take their daily tolls.
Medical care is limited.
AIDS plagues the population. In the cities, four out of five adults have no work or paid salary. There is no end to sights and sounds and smells that are intriguing. Wherever one is, there is another picture that could be taken, another story that fills our journals. But it is the people who make Ethiopia wonderful a people filled with joy, offering broad smiles, strong handshakes, genuine embraces.