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Friday, January 19, 2007
D.C. Ethiopian Community Center Offers Computer Classes
The Ethiopian Community Center in Washington, D.C. is currently offering computer classes at various times throughout the week.
At the end of attending the 48 hour training program, you will be able to use e-mail, surf the internet, create documents, and understand how to access a variety of computer programs.
For more information about this educational program, please call The Community Center: 202-726-0800.
The Ethiopian Community Center is located at 7603 Georgia Ave N.W., Suite 100, Washington D.C. 20012.
At the end of attending the 48 hour training program, you will be able to use e-mail, surf the internet, create documents, and understand how to access a variety of computer programs.
For more information about this educational program, please call The Community Center: 202-726-0800.
The Ethiopian Community Center is located at 7603 Georgia Ave N.W., Suite 100, Washington D.C. 20012.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Three Generations of Ethiopian Artists - Harn Museum of Art
Continuity and Change: Three Generations of Ethiopian Artists
Harn Museum of Art - University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
www.harn.ufl.edu
January 23, 2007 - April 29, 2007
This exhibition tells the story of modern and contemporary art in Ethiopia from the 1940s to the present and explores the role of government support of artists as part of a purposeful strategy for modernization of Ethiopia. The exhibition also examines the influence of the School of Fine Arts in Addis Ababa, one of Africa's leading art academies. In particular, Continuity and Change focuses on those artists who were and are active in Addis Ababa within the context of the political and social upheavals of twentieth-century Ethiopia. Artists active in Addis Ababa are still largely unknown outside Ethiopia and a narrow circle of international curators and collectors. Continuity and Change will introduce a number of these artists to U.S. audiences for the first time. Of the 23 artists in the exhibition, 20 are still living and active as artists. The exhibition is organized by Harn Director Rebecca Martin Nagy and North Carolina Central University Professor Achamyeleh Debela. Made possible by Northern Trust Bank.
Harn Museum of Art - University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
www.harn.ufl.edu
January 23, 2007 - April 29, 2007
This exhibition tells the story of modern and contemporary art in Ethiopia from the 1940s to the present and explores the role of government support of artists as part of a purposeful strategy for modernization of Ethiopia. The exhibition also examines the influence of the School of Fine Arts in Addis Ababa, one of Africa's leading art academies. In particular, Continuity and Change focuses on those artists who were and are active in Addis Ababa within the context of the political and social upheavals of twentieth-century Ethiopia. Artists active in Addis Ababa are still largely unknown outside Ethiopia and a narrow circle of international curators and collectors. Continuity and Change will introduce a number of these artists to U.S. audiences for the first time. Of the 23 artists in the exhibition, 20 are still living and active as artists. The exhibition is organized by Harn Director Rebecca Martin Nagy and North Carolina Central University Professor Achamyeleh Debela. Made possible by Northern Trust Bank.
Ethiopia Reads - Moving Forward in 2007
Ethiopia Reads believes that those who read bloom. In the past six months, Ethiopia Reads itself has grown and bloomed, expanding its literacy programs in Ethiopia and making scores of new friends in the United States.
Ethiopia Reads was founded by Yohannes Gebregeorgis, an Ethiopian who returned home after spending nearly two decades as a librarian in San Francisco. With programs in Addis Ababa and Awassa, Ethiopia Reads works to create a reading culture in Ethiopia, one book at a time. We do this by planting libraries for children, publishing children’s books in English as well as local Ethiopian languages and training teachers and educators to cultivate a love of books in young people.
Since forming in 2003, Ethiopia Reads has opened Shola Children’s Library, the first free children’s library in Ethiopia, which houses more than 15,000 books for kids. Last year, staff recorded 60,000 visits from boys and girls, many of whom experience the joy of books for the first time at Shola. We also published an English/Amharic version of the beloved children’s tale, Silly Mammo; we recently published our second bi-lingual volume, Pulling the Lion’s Tail, written by Ethiopia Reads President Jane Kurtz.
After an amazing close to 2006, we begin 2007 with a bang. In the early months of this year, we will:
• Open five new children's school libraries in Addis Ababa
• Continue work on four new children's books that will be published in Amharic and English by April
• Train staff and provide books for five additional school libraries, in partnership with our friends at the Children of Ethiopia Educational Fund
• Continue planning for our biggest Ethiopia Children's Book Week celebration ever
• Launch the first-ever Ethiopian Reads Children's Book Week in the United States, with a culminating festival in Washington, D.C.
Please visit www.ethiopiareads.org for more information on how you can get involved.
Ethiopia Reads was founded by Yohannes Gebregeorgis, an Ethiopian who returned home after spending nearly two decades as a librarian in San Francisco. With programs in Addis Ababa and Awassa, Ethiopia Reads works to create a reading culture in Ethiopia, one book at a time. We do this by planting libraries for children, publishing children’s books in English as well as local Ethiopian languages and training teachers and educators to cultivate a love of books in young people.
Since forming in 2003, Ethiopia Reads has opened Shola Children’s Library, the first free children’s library in Ethiopia, which houses more than 15,000 books for kids. Last year, staff recorded 60,000 visits from boys and girls, many of whom experience the joy of books for the first time at Shola. We also published an English/Amharic version of the beloved children’s tale, Silly Mammo; we recently published our second bi-lingual volume, Pulling the Lion’s Tail, written by Ethiopia Reads President Jane Kurtz.
After an amazing close to 2006, we begin 2007 with a bang. In the early months of this year, we will:
• Open five new children's school libraries in Addis Ababa
• Continue work on four new children's books that will be published in Amharic and English by April
• Train staff and provide books for five additional school libraries, in partnership with our friends at the Children of Ethiopia Educational Fund
• Continue planning for our biggest Ethiopia Children's Book Week celebration ever
• Launch the first-ever Ethiopian Reads Children's Book Week in the United States, with a culminating festival in Washington, D.C.
Please visit www.ethiopiareads.org for more information on how you can get involved.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Rural Ethiopia Ignores Law Against Child Brides as heard on NPR
All Things Considered, January 15, 2007 ·
In the northern highlands of Ethiopia, there's a saying: The world is producing more children, but the land is not expanding. That's leading to a collision between the old world and a new one that is challenging age-old social customs about marriage and the rights of women and children.
The government is backing a series of new family-planning policies, including a ban on the practice of marrying girls while they're still children. In the village of Yinsa, Ethiopia, some women are indifferent to the change. Others are welcoming it.
For the rest of the article please visit the following link:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6560441.
In the northern highlands of Ethiopia, there's a saying: The world is producing more children, but the land is not expanding. That's leading to a collision between the old world and a new one that is challenging age-old social customs about marriage and the rights of women and children.
The government is backing a series of new family-planning policies, including a ban on the practice of marrying girls while they're still children. In the village of Yinsa, Ethiopia, some women are indifferent to the change. Others are welcoming it.
For the rest of the article please visit the following link:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6560441.
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
Dedication ceremony for School located in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
Story by U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Brett Hart
CJTF – HOA Strategic Communications
DIRE DAWA, Ethiopia – Interrupted in July by deadly floods that hit the region, a primary school renovation and construction project funded by Combined Joint Task Force–Horn of Africa in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia was dedicated Friday with representatives from CJTF–HOA and local government and educations officials in attendance.
After several months of construction, the Friday ceremony marked the transfer of the completed project, the Medehane Alem Primary School from CJTF–HOA to the people of Dire Dawa.
“The purpose of the dedication was to demonstrate commitment to our partner nation, Ethiopia,” said U.S. Navy Cmdr. Ted Summers, representing CJTF–HOA.
Local officials including the education bureau chief for Dire Dawa,Fuad Mohammed, the school’s principal Kebede Teferi and Berhanu Mekonen, a Dire Dawa community leader, joined Cmdr. Summers for the dedication ceremony. About 40 students all in school uniforms attended along with about 150 people in the community.
“Our country’s plan is peace and development,” said Mohammed. “This school fits perfectly into that plan as education is of great importance in development.”
The completed two-story school has 10 classrooms and can now support about 1,200 male and female students from kindergarten to eighth grade.
In addition to a complete demolition and new construction of the new school, the construction team installed chalkboards, lighting and receptacles and electrical wiring for new fans and lights and painted in the classrooms. They also repaired three existing structures by fixing the electrical system, windows and doors as well as adding more lighting and replaced two of the structures’ roofs.
Finally, the team demolished the old restrooms and constructed two new dry and wet restrooms and a food service room. An engineer with CJTF-HOA stayed in the area as the demolition and construction occurred.
The people of CJTF-HOA helped to furnish the school by donating 250 new student desks, 10 teacher’s tables and 10 teacher’s chairs
The mission of CJTF-HOA is to prevent conflict, promote regional stability and protect Coalition interests in order to prevail against extremism. The CJTF-HOA organization began operations at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti May 13, 2003. It works with Partner nations on humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, consequence management, civic action programs to include medical and veterinary care, school and medical clinic construction and water development projects.
CJTF – HOA Strategic Communications
DIRE DAWA, Ethiopia – Interrupted in July by deadly floods that hit the region, a primary school renovation and construction project funded by Combined Joint Task Force–Horn of Africa in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia was dedicated Friday with representatives from CJTF–HOA and local government and educations officials in attendance.
After several months of construction, the Friday ceremony marked the transfer of the completed project, the Medehane Alem Primary School from CJTF–HOA to the people of Dire Dawa.
“The purpose of the dedication was to demonstrate commitment to our partner nation, Ethiopia,” said U.S. Navy Cmdr. Ted Summers, representing CJTF–HOA.
Local officials including the education bureau chief for Dire Dawa,Fuad Mohammed, the school’s principal Kebede Teferi and Berhanu Mekonen, a Dire Dawa community leader, joined Cmdr. Summers for the dedication ceremony. About 40 students all in school uniforms attended along with about 150 people in the community.
“Our country’s plan is peace and development,” said Mohammed. “This school fits perfectly into that plan as education is of great importance in development.”
The completed two-story school has 10 classrooms and can now support about 1,200 male and female students from kindergarten to eighth grade.
In addition to a complete demolition and new construction of the new school, the construction team installed chalkboards, lighting and receptacles and electrical wiring for new fans and lights and painted in the classrooms. They also repaired three existing structures by fixing the electrical system, windows and doors as well as adding more lighting and replaced two of the structures’ roofs.
Finally, the team demolished the old restrooms and constructed two new dry and wet restrooms and a food service room. An engineer with CJTF-HOA stayed in the area as the demolition and construction occurred.
The people of CJTF-HOA helped to furnish the school by donating 250 new student desks, 10 teacher’s tables and 10 teacher’s chairs
The mission of CJTF-HOA is to prevent conflict, promote regional stability and protect Coalition interests in order to prevail against extremism. The CJTF-HOA organization began operations at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti May 13, 2003. It works with Partner nations on humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, consequence management, civic action programs to include medical and veterinary care, school and medical clinic construction and water development projects.
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