Valerie Browning - Author - Maalika

Episode 141 of the Towards Understanding podcast, hosted by Positive Media, titled "Valerie Browning - Author - Maalika" was published on May 7, 2025 and runs 20 minutes.

May 7, 2025 ·20m · Towards Understanding

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Valerie Browning AM is an Australian nurse and Ethiopiaid's long-time project partner, She shares her extraordinary life in her gripping biography, "Maalika: My Life among the Afar Nomads of Africa". After volunteering to help the victims of Ethiopia's famine in 1973, little did she know that her life - and the lives of countless people in Afar - were about to change forever.

She co-founded the Afar Pastoralist Development Association (APDA) and has dedicated her life for the human rights of people in one of the most remote and isolated regions of Ethiopia.

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