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- Solar Electricity
  
  Solar Electricity
  Lighting the Way
  
  In Maji, after the sun goes down, people live in the dark. MDC’s first intervention in Maji District took place when Caroline Kurtz found donors, ordered a solar panel and four lights for the Maji Health Center’s Ob-gyn wing so women would have light in the delivery room at night.
- Clean Water
  
  Clean Water
  Improving Health
  
  MDC’s involvement in the critical issue of clean drinking water began in 2018, when the Maji town pump burned out. Town leaders took Caroline and board member Chris Bounds to see the muddy springs where people were reduced to drawing water.
- Women’s Empowerment
  
  Women’s Empowerment
  Transforming Lives
  
  MDC sent the Maji District’s Coordinator for Women’s and Children’s Affairs and support staff for orientation in self-help group work. They came back saying that the transformation they saw in women’s lives must be called a miracle.
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  To accompany the people of the Maji District in SW Ethiopia as they pursue community development for the flourishing of mind, body and soul.
  
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The Latest News from Maji Development Coalition

Book Chat Interview with Caroline Kurtz

developmaji2025-11-24T16:34:57+00:00News|

Caroline was recently interviewed for Book Chat on the Cowlitz County, Washington station KLTV. Alan Rose, a great interviewer, got Caroline talking about her unusual childhood as an Oregonian in Africa, and about the writing of her books set in Ethiopia and South Sudan. The interview is full [...]

In Honor of Women in Maji

developmaji2025-11-24T16:34:57+00:00Development, Women's Development Center|

I set out to start a non-profit organization to better lives in the subsistence farming community of Maji. I soon learned that everything I do for the community impacts women disproportionately. This is partly because women touch every part of the life of a farming family. The [...]

MDC—A Beacon of Hope

developmaji2025-11-24T16:34:57+00:00Community, News, News and Events|

MDC—A Beacon of Hope for the Dizi (deezee) People The history of the Dizi people of Maji is heartbreaking. An anthropologist wrote, Before the . . . forced incorporation of the Dizi into the Ethiopian empire, the Dizi probably numbered between 50,000 and 100,000. The conquest [...]

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Home Banner Video

Noah Friedman-Rudovsky
with permission by NRECA
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Noah Friedman-Rudovsky

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Laura Bond, Caroline Kurtz,
Maureen McAuley & Jeri Candor
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Solar Electricity
Lighting the Way

Clean Water
Improving Health

Women’s Empowerment
Transforming Lives

To accompany the people of the Maji District in SW Ethiopia as they pursue community development for the flourishing of mind, body and soul.

Maji Development Coalition

The Kurtz Family in Ethiopia

We couldn’t do this work without people like you.