Adwa Queen Sheba School Alumni donate an historic U.S. $30,000 for the building of both Wood and Metal workshops
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Jan 25, 2006
Professor Desta Asayehgn an Adwa Queen Sheba School Alumni donation of U.S $30,000.00 helped the building of both Wood and Metal workshops in Adwa, Tigray Ethiopia
Dr Asayehgn Desta earned his Ph.D in Manpower Planning with emphasis on Economics of Education and Masters in Political Science from Stanford University. Currently, Dr, Desta is a professor of Business Economics and Quantitative Research Methods at Dominican University of California.
Before Dr. Desta joined Dominican University, he was a) high school director in Ethiopia, b) a Board of Trustee for Teachers College in Ethiopia c) Manpower Planner for the United Nations (UNESCO), Paris, France, d) Research Associate, University of California, San Francisco, e) Lecturer, Managerial Economics and International Business, San Francisco State University and Golden Gate University, and f) Consultant to the United Nations.
Dr. Desta is the author of several articles and the two books entitled “International Political Risk Assessment for Foreign Direct Investment and International Lending Decisions (1993) and Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development (1999). Currently, in collaboration with Professor Tetteh Kofi of University of San Francisco, Dr. Desta is in underdevelopment: An Alternative Strategy for Africa’s Sustainable Development in the 21st Century.”
By attending the Queen Sheba School of Adwa, Tigrai, Ethiopia, Dr. Desta strongly believes that his life and his outlook have changed. As he stated it,
“much of the influence I received toward being a full professor and a rigorous researcher came from attending the Queen Sheba elementary school of Adwa. Queen Sheba School made me feel much more prepared and confident about my future. I learned valuable lessons both in and out of the classroom. Therefore, it is heartwarming and I feel really rewarding to donate an historic U.S. $30,000 for the building of both Wood and Metal workshops to students seeking technical careers so that they can achieve success in life. Stated differently, I fully financed the vocational building at the Queen Sheba School, Adwa, because of my passion for the School, the experience I had when attending the school, my belief in the importance of education, and in order to help develop more skilled workers as the way to give back to the school that served me so well.”
Professor Desta Vocational Buildingwas completed, and formally inaugurated by his mother, Woizero Worku Reda on the 1st of December, 2005. Now, the building has been completed, it is the hope of the Queen Sheba School’s Alumni of Seattle, Washington that Dr. Desta’s “generosity and thoughtfulness will make a difference in the lives of the students in Adwa and others will follow in his footsteps.”
