Current and former CARE staffers were among the 157 people killed Sunday when an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed shortly after leaving Addis Ababa bound for Nairobi.
Immaculate Odero was a regional security officer for the Horn of Africa. She never worked in Atlanta.
A CARE spokesman said Odero lived in Nairobi and was travelling back home after a field deployment with CARE.
In her job, she provided various forms of support to countries in the Horn of Africa, including Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan. She started working for the global nonprofit in 2018.
CARE issued a statement calling Odero “a cherished member of the CARE family” and said she is survived by her husband and a daughter.
CARE Canada is also mourning the loss of a former staffer who was a passenger on the ill-fated flight.
Jessica Hyba worked with CARE early in her career in Canada and in Indonesia as part of the emergency response to the Indian Ocean tsunami. Most recently, she worked with the UNHCR as the organization’s senior external relations officer.
Those who died included physicians, students, the former secretary general of the Football Kenya Federation and several staffers for humanitarian groups.
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