Why the Women’s Development Center Matters So Much: Caroline Kurtz has spent her life walking alongside the people of Maji, Ethiopia —with deep roots, quiet strength, and a vision for sustainable change. Caroline first arrived in Maji as a first grader, when her parents came to help establish a school, a clinic, and a small church. As she returned to teach English in Addis Ababa, she often thought about Maji. After the fall of Ethiopia’s communist regime, she returned—wanting to see what remained of her father’s work and how the community had endured. What she found were church buildings repurposed as [...]