'Reda’s been hosting pop-ups around the city ever since, raising awareness and cold, hard cash—more than $100K—in support of women and girls who’ve suffered sexual violence in the conflict.' | MikeSula
Thousands of civilians have been tortured, imprisoned, murdered, sexually assaulted, and expelled; their homes occupied and looted by an invading military that has blocked humanitarian aid from reaching those left behind.
No, it’s not Ukraine. It’s the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia, which has been under siege since November 2020 when a civil war broke out between the country’s once-dominant Tigrayan political party and the national government to the south. War crimes have been committed on both sides, butjust issued by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch states that western Tigray, which has been inaccessible to journalists since the conflict began, has taken the worst of it.
While this disaster barely makes headlines relative to the war in Eastern Europe, Tigist Reda has been advocating for displaced Tigrayan women since the conflict began. Reda, who was born in Tigray, is the chef and owner of Uptown’s. Last January she visited two remote camps in eastern Sudan, Tenedba and Um Rakuba, housing tens of thousands of refugees in “the middle of nowhere.”
“They are not able to walk out of the camp,” she says. But “I was amazed at the things they created for themselves. There were juice bars, a barber shop; I had a dress made. Ten women started a coffee shop. I was encouraged by that. I want to support that. A lot of them were professionals, business owners, or farmers before the war. It’s their livelihood as well as for their mental health. They’re not sitting at home worrying. They’re actually working, creating things. I want to expand on that.
Reda’s been hosting pop-ups around the city ever since, raising awareness and cold, hard cash—more than $100K—in support of women and girls who’ve suffered sexual violence in the conflict. She’s at it again this Monday, April 11, at the Kedzie Inn in Irving Park for
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