Fellows & Editors

Nicole Melancon

Trip:: Ethiopia 2014
Affiliation:: Third Eye Mom
Country:: Ethiopia
Year:: 2014

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Nicole Melancon is a Minneapolis-based freelance journalist, traveler and global volunteer who shares her passion for travel, culture and social good on Thirdeyemom. She is also a world voice editor for World Moms Blog, and a regular contributor to The Elephant Journal and The Huffington Post, where she focuses on global health, human rights, motherhood, poverty and the environment. Melancon is an advocate for ONE, the United Nations Foundation Shot@Life campaign and other nonprofit organizations. In 2013, she traveled to India as a member of Mom Bloggers for Social Good to report on water, sanitation, newborn health and education. She majored in French and International Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Stories

WaterAid: Providing Safe Water and Sanitation in Ethiopia

by Melancon, Nicole | September 30, 2014

Water is essential to life. Without water, humans and our world would not survive. Yet, 11% of the world’s population – 783 million people – do not have access to...
The Long Walk to Deliver

by Melancon, Nicole | September 19, 2014

On one of my last days in Ethiopia as a fellow with the International Reporting Project we visited Project Mercy, a not-for-profit relief and development agency that provides...
Ellilta Products: Helping Women Off the Streets

by Melancon, Nicole | August 11, 2014

One night in 1992, Serawit “Cherry” Teketel, a young Ethiopian college graduate was driving home from dinner with her family when they came upon a moment that would change...
The Texture of Injera

by Melancon, Nicole | August 08, 2014

On my first night in Addis Ababa, I was introduced to the main staple of Ethiopian food: Injera. Injera is a sponge-like, sourdough bread made from teff that looks like a giant...
Rural Life in Ethiopia

by Melancon, Nicole | August 05, 2014

It is impossible to understand Ethiopia without visiting the countryside. In a country of 90 million people, the rural land of Ethiopia is where over 90% of Ethiopians live and catching a glimpse of...
Gliding Across Lake Tana in Search of Hippos and Monasteries

by Melancon, Nicole | July 23, 2014

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life”. Virginia Woolf A few hours after my morning encounter with the papyrus boat fisherman and the hippos off the shore of my hotel,...
Hope in the Struggle for Ethiopian Maternal and Newborn Care

by Melancon, Nicole | June 28, 2014

Reaching Mosebo village, about 42 kilometers outside of Bahir Dar in rural Ethiopia, is not for the faint of heart. It requires a land cruiser, patience, and a spirit of adventure to cover...
Inside Save the Children’s Successful Rural Health Center in Ethiopia

by Melancon, Nicole | June 24, 2014

{image-1} Children of Mosebo Village, Ethiopia. Photo credit: Nicole Melancon. ONE Mom Nicole Melancon is traveling with the International Reporting Project Fellow on a New Media Fellowship to report on newborn health....
A Snapshot of Ethiopia

by Melancon, Nicole | June 23, 2014

I have been in Ethiopia as an International Reporting fellow for a little over a week now and it has been an amazing, eye-opening trip so far. I have learned so much...
First Day on the Ground Learning About Maternal and Newborn Health in Ethiopia

by Melancon, Nicole | June 20, 2014

Ethiopia, one of the poorest countries in Africa with a population of 90 million people, stunned the world by achieving the Millennium Development Goal #4 of reducing the mortality rates of children under age 5...
First Impressions of Ethiopia

by Melancon, Nicole | June 18, 2014

I arrived early Sunday morning into Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, after a long haul flight from home. My day began Saturday at 3 am and after two fights totaling 16 hours I...