Young women aid Ethiopia's health system
The majority of Ethiopia's population live in rural areas and when they are ill many do not seek medical advice, but a new government programme hopes to change this at a local level. Eynalem Taye (L) wants to take her training further and become a doctor Eynalem Taye is 23-years-old, but her tiny frame makes her look like a slight teenager. The daunting task to get universal health coverage in Ethiopia is and has been extremely difficult! When you take the young aspiring doctor’s attitude in this story in to account, it is a miracle what the EPRDF government has achieved so far in health coverage!
Thank you Aynalem Taye! Nurilen Ehetachin!
Additional interesting interview with WHO official regarding health extension program in Ethiopia
On March 15, 2011, the president of the Somali Regional State , Abdi Mohamud Omar, asked the regional parliament to approve the densely populated Raaso region and 14 other towns as new districts...
Thought for Today!
Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. by Jamie Paolinetti
PM Meles Zenawi's Interview with Al-Hayat London Newspaper:
John C Royds
Memories of a charismatic and inspirational headmaster
Dr Abraha Derso (UK), 21 April 2011
John Royds had spent only a few years in Ethiopia but his inspiration to many of his Ethiopian students’ lives on more than 46 years after he left the country. John was headmaster of the General Wingate Secondary
School (GWSS) in Addis Ababa from 1961 to 1965
“The generation of power does not use up water. It only uses the energy that was contained in the water,” Dr Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, Director General of the Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia. Interview (waltainfo.com)
Poem on Abay by Gizachew Girmay from Mekelle
poem on Abay (Tigrigna)
News, Analysis & Articles
Ethiopia: REVISITING ETHIOPIAWINET!
Mammo Muchie April 24, Ethiopia is in a strange paradox: Ethiopia reminds me of Witgestein’s prescient remark of a nation being run by elites who are trying to disrupt its future ...What is wrong with holding on and inheriting our Ethiopia and add modernisation, renewal and democratisation without breaking the framework and subtracting the nation and parcelling the state? Dr Mammo, to be honest with you we think the current political leaders holding power are trying to hold on to the Ethiopiawinet you mentioned which all Ethiopians can be proud of! The new Ethiopia where all the nation and nationalities are proudly defending is built on the firm foundation of Adwa and Metema so to speak.
What is really problematic to us is that why are some of our current generation politicians and educators unable to see the Ethiopiawinet of the yesteryear that equates mainly the Amahra and Tigray culture as that of Ethiopia is not acceptable to the other nation and nationalities? The assimilation road was tried and it did not work Dr Mammo! Let the Tigray and Amhara keep their proud culture but let us also allow others to do likewise!
Is This It?
Efforts to Uproot Endemic Problems from Ethiopia and More
Dr. Erango Kelbisow April 23, 2011-It is a fact that Ethiopia and her heritage, irrespective of their ethnic or cultural origin, religious persuasion, political point of view, or party affiliation, belong to all Ethiopians and their descendants everywhere...
/April 22, 2011, Tsehaye Debalkew, Washington DC/- Staff members of the Embassy of Ethiopia in Washington DC., have pledged to chip in Birr. 350,000, toward the construction and realization of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam to be built on the Blue Nile River in Beni-shangul Region of the country.. Egypt tells Ethiopia it will negotiate over Nile
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Egypt's ambassador to Ethiopia said Thursday that his government is willing to negotiate disputed Nile River issues with Ethiopia, including a colonial-era treaty that gives Egypt a majority stake in the river...
Very good article on the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam at Blue Nile, although, it has the usual "Reporter" bias to the negative when it comes to the EPRDF!
BOSTON BRANCH of QUEEN SHEBA SCHOOLS ALUMNI
Invites all Tigreans and friends of our Association to participate in the campaign for improving the quality of Education
Date: April 30, 2011
Time: 7:00PM - 1:00 AM Place: 323Washington Street, Brighton, MA 02135
The majority of Ethiopia's population live in rural areas and when they are ill many do not seek medical advice, but a new government programme hopes to change this at a local level. Eynalem Taye (L) wants to take her training further and become a doctor Eynalem Taye is 23-years-old, but her tiny frame makes her look like a slight teenager.
“The generation of power does not use up water. It only uses the energy that was contained in the water,” Dr Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, Director General of the Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia.
