The Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association (EWLA) disclosed that it has provided free legal aid services for 18,000 women in 2008.

IRIN - Non-profit organisations and NGOs are laying off staff and cutting back aid programmes as the global recession bites, and the prospects for 2010 also look bleak.

Telegraph.co.uk - It's 9.20am and I'm standing in a corrugated iron shed, trying to get the group of 25 third graders I am teaching to settle down. It hasn't been the most peaceful of lessons – first a dog staged a classroom invasion, then two children had a minor disagreement from which they had to be physically separated, and then the baby from next door decided that she wanted to help teach the class and wouldn't stop screaming until I put her on my hip.

Union News - A group of mechanical engineering students, led by professor Ron Bucinell, will spend their spring break in Boru, Ethiopia, hoping to tap a clean water source for the village’s 5,000 residents.

This year, impoverished children in one Ethiopian village have something they’ve never known before - hope for the future. Children attending the Bantu school, founded by Buckner International and Bright Hope, receive two meals a day, two school uniforms, daytime clothing, shoes, schoolbooks and supplies, personal hygiene materials and medical treatment.

CBS - For Colorado non-profits, the downturn in the economy is particularly difficult -- donations and volunteers are down. Lalmba is a non-profit that provides medical care, food, clothing and education to people in Kenya and Ethiopia. Areas Carrole Johnson with Lalmba describes as stepping back 2,000 years.

Times of Malta - Former street boys are seeing a dramatic change in their lives after having moved into a home run by a Maltese woman in Ethiopia.

Press Association - Health workers and communities in remote parts of Ethiopia are being given access to information on safe pregnancy and childbirth - with the help of solar powered DVD players.

District - Savannah,GA,USA - Artists for Charity (AFC), a non-profit organization based out of Ethiopia, is a group of not only artists, but also other volunteers from all walks of life, that works for educating and providing awareness to individuals who reside in developing nations.

Mission Network News - Ethiopia's Prime Minister just held a forum with students over the effectiveness of the six-year-old national youth development package.