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ARRIVING at the remote village school in the Tigray highlands, Band Aid icon Birhan Woldu is swamped by a sea of smiling faces.
At the head of the crowd, two beaming children are holding a sign they have fashioned from ragged paper.
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“Thank you Bob Geldof, thank you Band Aid,” it reads in blue and red marker pen.
Critics here in Britain have labelled the charity “colonialist” and decried Sir Bob as having a “white saviour complex”.
The 600 hungry kids who receive a square meal at Hagere Selam school every day — paid for with Band Aid cash — would beg to differ.
Birhan — whose emaciated image on a TV news report 40 years ago alerted the world to the Ethiopian tragedy — now sits with Feven Kibrom as the youngster tucks into a plate of beans, wheat and sorghum paste served up by local volunteers for UK charity Mary’s Meals.
Farmer’s daughter Feven, eight, said: “It’s…
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