Worancha ወራንቻ

Best Day Yet! Another busy day in Warancha and the surrounding area of Awassa. The children greeted us with a song and game as we walked onto the field. They were so excited to see us again. We taught them songs and in return, they sang for us. We played “Minute to Win It,” passed life savers on spaghetti noodles, and balanced 5 die on popsicle sticks. Our team performed two skits: birth of Christ with shepherds and then birth of Christ with wise men. Then the children re-enacted both skits. They are stars in the making and really played their parts well…even down to the expressions on their faces when the host of angels came to proclaim Christ’s birth. We ended our morning with another soccer game while the little ones played other games. We left Warancha at noon, ate lunch and then visited Shalom Orphanage just down the street. This is the orphanage from where Doug (our team leader from Riverside) adopted his son Zebene, 7 months ago. Arrangements had been made prior to

Anja Tranovich Editor and Media Relations Specialist, ACDI/VOCA Infographic: The Power of Cooperatives Explained Posted: 10/16/2012 10:27 am This World Food Day, October 16, celebrates the power of cooperatives, "Key to Feeding the World." Why co-ops? By banding together in a co-op, farmers can buy inputs, like fertilizer and seed, directly from providers, saving expensive middleman costs. They can efficiently learn new techniques. They can share costs of storage or processing and bulk their crop to sell to larger companies who want products measured in tons not in bushels. Whether in grain or coffee, cooperatives connect farmers to markets and to each other. Take the case of the Ferro coffee cooperative in Ethiopia. The Ferro co-op accomplished a remarkable feat when it connected its rural, smallholder farmers to the global market for specialty coffee, and the co-op's dry-processed coffee was designated a Starbucks' Black Apron

by John  HAMER Anthropology holds up a great mirror to man and lets him look at himself in his infinite variety. [Kluckholm 1949:11] Years ago Clyde Kluckholm published a book titled 'Mirror for Man". In it he explained how studies of nonwestern societies '... show the great variety of solutions ...' that have been developed, as well as '...the variety of meanings ...' that have been conceived to resolve human problems (ibid:15). This world panorama of differing life styles became a way of learning '... what works and what doesn't ...' Since then, and specially now with the popularization of 'cultural diversity,' the discovery has focused, for the average person, on such peripheral aspects of difference as tasting foods and musical forms. Seldom, however, have westerners been willing to look seriously at the possibility of experimenting with different forms of authority, social, and economic practices observed in the cultures of other

  አዲስ አበባ፣ ጥቅምት 7፣ 2005 (ኤፍ ቢ ሲ) የዘንድሮው የኢትዮጵያ ፕሪሚየር ሊግ የመጀመሪያ ዙር የጨዋታ መርሃ ግብር ይፋ ሆኗል። ውድድሩ ጥቅምት 18 ሲጀመር የበርካታ ደጋፊ ባለቤት የሆኑት ኢትዮጵያ ቡና እና ቅዱስ ጊዮርጊስ በመክፈቻው ጨዋታ ይገናኛሉ። በዚህም መሰረት 1ኛ ሳምንት                                                              2ኛ ሳምንት ሲዳማ ቡና ከ ደደቢት                                                   ደደቢት ከ መከላከያ                                    ኢትዮጵያ ውሃ ስራዎች ከ መብራት ሃይል                           ኢትዮጵያ መድን ከ ሃረር ቢራ ቅዱስ ጊዮርጊስ ከ ኢትዮጵያ ቡና                                     ኢትዮጵያ ንግድ ባንክ ከ ሃዋሰ ከነማ አርባ ምንጭ ከነማ ከ ሙገር ሲሚንቶ                                 ሙገር ከ አዳና ከነማ አዳማ ከነማ ከ ኢትዮጵያ ንግድ ባንክ                                ኢትዮጵያ ቡና ከ አርባ ምንጭ ሃዋሳ ከነማ ከ ኢትዮጵያ መድን                                       መብራት ሃይል ከ ቅዱስ ጊዮርጊስ ሃረር ቢራ ከ መከላከያ                                                  ሲዳማ ቡና ከ ውሃ ስራዎች 3ኛ ሳምንት                                                            4ኛ ሳምንት ውሃ ስራዎች ከ ደደቢት                                           

WEESE PROCESSOR Enset or Weese, as it is called in Sidaama, is a large single stemmed, banana-like perennial plant grown mainly as a garden crop in the south and south-western Ethiopia. About ten million people use enset as their major staple food crop. Enset plant is used for 1) Food (hamicho or boiled corm, kocho and bulla),2) Bedding (dried enset leaves),3) Food wrappings (leaves),4) Cattle feed (leaves, leaf sheaths, and corm) and 5) Building materials (leaf sheaths and fibre—by product of decorticating leaf sheaths). Kocho and bulla are obtained by decorticating leaf sheaths and by grating/shredding peduncle and corm. The traditional way of extracting kocho and bulla from leaf sheaths, peduncle and corm is tedious and back breaking process. Weese processor is meant to change that and make the lives of enset producers much simpler. In the following few pages, I will try to explain, with the help drawings, how weese processor works. The Weese processor has two distinct processor