Case studies
As a key part of Young Lives we talk to parents and children directly about their lives. This helps us to understand about the way in which poverty effects children as they grow up.
Picture: Collecting Young Lives data in Ethiopia
Frehiwot Amare
Frehiwot Amare, age 27, lives in Addis Ababa at a place called Talian sefer. She is a mother of two girls, Redeat, 5 years old, and Yabsira, 7 months old, and one boy, Natnael, 9 years old, who and is in grade 2 at school. Read more >>>
Chernet Teferra
Chernet Teferra joined the Ethiopian airforce as a driver in 1985. He was transferred to Eritrea, then one of the administrative regions of Ethiopia. Like any other employees of the Ethiopian airforce, he lived in a military camp. He met his wife Asmeret Hussen while she was working at a canteen in the camp. They got married and had one child. Read more >>>
Ali Kelil
Ato Ali is an elderly person in his fifties, with a family of nine. He came to Addis when he was young to live with his sister. He started school but did not go further so he learned some skills in woodwork. Read more >>>
Yirgedu Worku
Yirgedu Worku is 38 years old and lives in Ad’aa Wereda at a place called Sirba. Yirgedu came to this place in 1985 when famine affected most of the northern regions of Ethiopia. The government forced young people to move and resettle in the south and southwest of Ethiopia. Yirgedu who was 20 years old was brought from Gojam to Sirba along with her two brothers. Their parents were left because they were old and weak. Read more >>>