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የውጭ ዜጎች ስለ ይርጋዓለም ከተማ እና ነዋሪዎቿ ምን ኣሉ

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Back to Yirgalem!   ካላ  James Elford እንደጻፉት I have spent the last two weeks back in Yirgalem, working with Stride Athletics Club.  As Finote Selam Teacher’s College has been on a semester break, I have had the opportunity to return and do some more English teaching.  I stayed with Mary, a VSO doctor, who is placed at the local hospital. Each day, I taught the children in two groups.  As the majority of them only attend school for half days, they were able to come to my classes during the opposite shift.  The main focus of my work was developing their speaking and listening, but I also spent some time improving their reading skills. We started each session with a conversation on a specific topic.  Then we carried out some group reading.  The club have been donated a number of new books from a charity in Ireland, so it was good to have the opportunity to use them.  Most children have very limited access to books (apart from their school textbooks), therefore their reading
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Ethiopia travel report by Jessica Royce My purpose for travel to YirGalem, Ethiopia, was to produce a short promotional documentary for the newly found charity; Wales for Africa health link. The Wales for Africa health link is a fairly new charity set up by the government. At the moment the charity do not ask or rely on donations, but are funded by the Welsh assembly government. For the past three years the money has been used to send out doctors and nurses from the Wrexham maelor hospital to Yirgalem hospital, Ethiopia, in order to teach staff and medical students as well as help care for some of the patients. The charity wants to start expanding and get more attention from the public, so they wanted some video evident of their trip to show the government as well as to put on the website to try and promote it. Myself, two doctors and my mother who is a nurse, took a 20.10 flight to Dubai on Friday 2 nd  March  leaving from Manchester airport flying with Emirates. We arr

The enset (Ensete ventricosum) gardens of Sidama: composition, structure and dynamics of a traditional poly-variety system

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Bizuayehu Tesfaye Abstract The composition and structure of 300 enset gardens from 10 different locations in Sidama were examined. Average size of the gardens was 0.74 ha. The gardens are composed of mixtures of various named enset varieties and different groups recognisable on the basis of ‘sex’ (male and female) and use (cooking and processing). The gardens exhibit high diversity, with a given garden containing up to 24 varieties (mean = 8.2). However, the components are not represented equally. Typically, the gardens consisted of one or two very abundant varieties and a much larger number of less common ones. Enset gardens are dynamic because the number and composition of varieties and different types changed from garden to garden, from location to location and across time. Their composition, structure and dynamics have been influenced by human, socio-economic factors (farm size, land per capita, cropping patterns and size of livestock), temporal circumstances and landscape

The Impact of Micro and Small Scale Enterprises on Poverty Reduction: The Impact of Micro and Small Scale Enterprises on Poverty Reduction in Hawassa City

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by  Wondimu Aklilu Developing countries in Africa including Ethiopia are facing problems like extreme poverty, unemployment, low income distributions, low health care, poor education and the like. To pullout these countries out of those problems, MSSEs came to picture as one of the most important policy tool for poverty reduction. This study has examined the impact of MSSEs for poverty reduction in Hawassa City. The data used in the study was collected using survey method from primary sources using questionnaire, interviews, personal observations and focus group discussions while secondary data sources collected using reviews and document researches. The collected data were analyzed using chi square tests, ANOVA, paired sample t-tests and descriptive statistics. The 266 MSSEs owners were selected as a sample of the study using stratified and simple random sampling techniques. http://books.google.com.pe/books?id=kDuKMAEACAAJ&dq=hawassa+city&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XB9pUt7HN

The Association to Get Involved in Large Research and Development Projects

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The Association of Ethiopians Educated in Norway held its general assembly at Hawassa University on 20 and21 September 2013, in the presence of the guest of honor Mrs Tove Stub, Minister Counselor, Deputy Head of Mission, Royal Norwegian Embassy of Ethiopia. President of the association Dr. Ayele Taye in his welcoming speech stated “The association is working hard to facilitate networking and communication among its members and enhance their contributions to the country’s development plans mainly with higher education and problem solving researches both individually and jointly.” He added, “We are expected to further strengthen the existing collaborations between the people of Ethiopia and Norway.” Dr. Ayele underlined that the association appreciates the supports of the people of Norway to Ethiopia in the area of capacity building through higher level education and research. Many Ethiopians have been educated in Norway and Ethiopia with the help of Norwegians based projects. S