Valerie Browning

Valerie Browning is an Australian nurse who is known for her work with Afar people in Ethiopia. She has founded Afar Pastoral Development Association.
Browning used to work in Armidale, New South Wales before she started working as a volunteer in Ethiopia in 1973. Since then, she is living in Ethiopia with Afar people and is helping them with basic needs of life such as safe child birth and health.
She has also worked in Sudanese refugee camps, Djibouti and Eritrea.
In 1999, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia.
Family.
Browning married elder of Afar clan, Ismael Ali Gardo, in 1989. She has a two-year adopted son, Nabil.