Caroline Kurtz
Caroline Kurtz, the daughter of Presbyterian Church missionaries, lived in Ethiopia from the age of five. The family lived in the church’s most remote mission station in the mountainous regions of south-western Ethiopia near the town of Maji.
From the age of ten Caroline attended boarding school in Addis Ababa and then in Alexandria, Egypt. She left for college in the USA at 18, unprepared for US culture. She eventually married a childhood sweetheart, also the child of American missionaries to Ethiopia, and the couple returned with their family to live and work in Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Sudan.
Caroline returns regularly to Ethiopia, bringing solar power and economic development options to women in Maji.
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