Ethiopian Embassy Staff in Washington Dc. Pledge to Put Up Birr.350,000, Toward the Building of the Grand Renaissance Dam!

/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.

In a spirited meeting they held last Tuesday April 19, 2011 at the auditorium of the Chancery of the Ethiopian Embassy, the entire retinue of Diplomats and local Staff vigorously expressed their utmost readiness to contribute their share towards the building of the Grand Renaissance Dam. They hailed the timely measure of the government to undertake such unparalleled bold move as a "Dream Come True bedrock measure" that would usher in a huge impact on extricating the nation from the grip of the hitherto existing grinding poverty that has to-date held it hostage and vulnerable to all sorts of exigencies.

During the meeting the diplomatic and local staff also expressed their willingness to purchase bonds toward the noble endeavor by putting up their respective financial clouts. They further expressed their dedicated stand to shoulder their responsibility in tune with the national drive presently reverberating amongst Ethiopians both at home and abroad enthused with gigantic vigor and burning patriotic valor.

Ambassador Girma Birru, Special Envoy and Ambassador Extra-ordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to the USA, commended the entire employees of the Embassy for the pious and exemplary role they have exhibited in an unhesitant manner. He went on to praise their generous pledge to answer diligently to the timely and topical national Growth and Transformation call which is currently in full swing.

Ambassador Girma further expressed his indisputable belief for the sustained and enhanced need of the Embassy staff to further heighten their resolve and dedicated sense of mission. He urged the staff to enhance their strivings in an all the more invigorated manner, to actively and proactively play their due role in galvanizing the silent majority of the Diaspora to play its bolstered national and patriotic duty.

In this regard the Embassy staff should exert maximum effort in order to enable and empower the Diaspora to throw its support unflinchingly behind the on-going Growth and Transformation Enterprise in general and the construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam in particular, he underscored.

The Special Envoy underlined the rationale for the timely need to streamline the concerted effort of the Embassy and marshal its resources in a focused fashion. He also referred to the staff's encouraging stance which he said was in tune with the current initiative, keenness and dynamism being demonstrated by the Ethiopian Diaspora society fired up to be counted in the present historic renaissance movement.

He pointed out to the determined stand forged by the Ethiopian people and government to relegate poverty into the relic of history and called upon Ethiopians in the Diaspora to seize upon the golden moment and not miss the trajectory that has paved the way for the irreversible march of our nation irrevocably forward.

In a concomitant development the employees of the Head Office in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, and its Missions abroad have pledged to contribute over Four Million Birr. in support of the apt initiative at building the Grand Renaissance Dam and have at the same time resolved to purchase government bonds to that end.