Ethiopian school girls toes

Secareda Mariam was twelve years old when her mother died, leaving her orphaned and solely responsible for the maintenance of the plastic shelter she and her mother built for themselves out of discarded shopping bags and pieces of cloth. Squatting in a hollow corner of her house, she looks down at her toes as they draw anxious circles in the dust. Large and thickly callused for a twelve year old, her feet are swollen from the miles of concrete she walked today to sell kola, a nutty grain eaten as a snack by city dwellers. As a child now unsupported and unguarded on the streets of the capital city, Secareda is uneasy about her future. Unfortunately, Secareda's situation is more accepted than it is exceptional.

To explore the influence of personal, cultural and socioeconomic factors related to footwear use and non-use in northern Ethiopia. A qualitative study was conducted using focus group discussions and in-depth individual interviews. Data were collected using semistructured interview guides. A total of 91 individuals from 4 target groups participated in individual and group interviews: 1 non-affected community leaders including Idir a form of social insurance leaders, school principals, kebele the lowest administrative unit officials, health professionals, teachers, merchants and religious leaders; 2 affected men and women; 3 non-affected men and women not in leadership positions; and 4 school children both male and female. Participants perceived a range of health benefits from donning footwear, including protection against injury and cold.

By Yuan Ren For Mailonline. A new species of puddle frog has been found in a previously unexplored mountain in southwestern Ethiopia. The creatures have characteristics that are easily distinguishable from other Ethiopian puddle frogs, such as a slender body with long legs, elongated fingers and toes, and a golden tint.

Barefoot is the most common term for the state of not wearing any footwear. Wearing footwear is an exclusively human characteristic, however some animals held by humans are also issued with footwear, such as horses and, more rarely, dogs and cats. There are health benefits and some risks associated with going barefoot. Footwear provides protection from cuts, abrasions, bruises, and impacts from objects on the ground or the ground texture itself, as well as from frost or heat burns , and parasites like hookworm in extreme situations.