Peter S. Goodman
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737 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 10 Jun
Peter S. Goodman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is the drought that existed before.
But what struck me was how UNICEF, for one example, they're trucking water to drought-afflicted areas.
And they were already dealing with budget cuts.
Well, now the price of diesel goes up, so the price of trucking that water is much more expensive, so now they're trucking less water.
Well, now that they're trucking less water...
There are more people in need who can no longer stay in the places that used to be relying upon that water.
They have to go move somewhere in search of aid in the places like the ones I visited in camps along the Ethiopian border.
Yeah, well, this was gutting.
On my first day in the town of Dolo on the Ethiopian border, the sort of place where traditionally large international relief groups, World Food Program, UNICEF, have clustered.
I met a family that had left a rural area where the drought had been particularly severe.
It had killed their 50 head of cattle.
That's their life savings.
Once that's gone, they've got nothing.
Meanwhile, the rivers have dried up.
They can't grow any food.
So they walked for nine days carrying their three-year-old daughter on their backs in
And they get there to Dolo and they discover that all of these international relief groups, almost all of them, have abandoned the area.
There's no help.
I mean, they were in disbelief and they understood, like most of the people in these camps, they can't go back.
They set up a tent alongside hundreds of others with some plastic sheeting that gets donated by some other people in the camp.
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