Friday, August 24, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
Why I am not shedding tears for my relative at Sinai prison (and it’s not because I am cruel)
Ziade Hailu, March 2012
After having escaped Pharaoh the Israelites stayed in the harsh desert of Sinai for forty years and God fed them with manna and promised to lead them into the land that “flows with milk and honey”. Fast forward three thousand years or so, the new Pharaoh is poverty; the new law is “get rich or die trying”. The condition of the “gentiles” on their way to the Promised Land is appalling. There is no manna to feed on; the red see is parting, there is no imminent guarantee of their entry in to the Promised Land. Instead the place is infested with blood thirsty, gun-touting kidnappers.
The ‘Sinai problem’ has been a menace for some time now, but it is only recently that it came to the attention of the international community by CNN coverage. According to the report by the Israeli Army up to 17,000 migrants make to Israel every year. Many of them are from Sudan, Eritrea and Irob in Ethiopia. Reliable sources from Irob Woreda tell me that since the past four years about 700 Irobs have managed to reach Israel paying blood money, 120 are in refugee camps, and as I write these lines another 30 are in prison in Sinai waiting for your money to free them. And many more have failed in their attempt and lost their precious life trying to enter the country.
In the meantime Israel is fencing 230Kms of border with Egypt and is building a detention center that holds up to 11,000 of us, future migrants of course. So, folks who are contemplating to try their luck, this must be the right time before the wall is erected and the Jews state becomes smarter than the Bedouin tribe to prevent your entry. It is an advertisement of sorts. But don’t mention my name and I am not complicit in a human smuggling business, most of all don’t call me at night for my contributions. This is do- it- at- your- own- peril-business.
Now, seriously, who is to be blamed for all the misery? Should we point our fingers at the young who are fleeing with (aynii yebiley, sini yebiley) their eyes wide closed? Or should we unearth the smugglers network with the aid of some spy agency and kill them all? (This is business, comprende?) Or again blame successive governments for not having offered opportunities at home to do away with poverty? The best solution of course would be to make our country prosperous and more democratic. But until it becomes so no one can stop migration. As long as information is available, capital and labor will always keep migrating in search of better opportunities.
A few weeks back a relative of mine contacted me from a ragged mountain home in Addaga and said in an anxious voice “ my son escaped to Sinai and the smugglers are demanding 85,000 Birr, and if we don’t deliver in time they will either kill him or take body parts”. ‘kill’ and ‘body parts’ remained imprinted in my head for a few minutes. 85,000 birr…..I shrieked. I found myself confronted with an array of emotions ranging from shock to anger to indifference. I felt like telling her, “did he asked my consent before he left for the desert of Egypt, or was there some money he has left with me that I am forgetting”. After I hung up the phone, the power of guilt feeling was so overwhelming that I drove to my bank to see if I could wire some money to his kidnappers.
But on my way to the bank the monkey mind was throwing dozens of questions at me: Questions on personal responsibility, obligation, morality, guilt, support system within low income society etc. Why would a loved one put his family and friends in such a precarious moral situation? Why would these young people capitalize on guilt, fear and obligation? I changed my mind. Instead of sending money to Egypt, I searched for a book on psychology to educate myself on the make-up of emotional blackmailing. I failed to find one but looked for alternative sources. Of lately my interest in psychology, biology and chemistry has improved so much that I am convinced I can explain almost every bit of behavior with the tools from these disciplines. (Take for example the subject of sex: chemistry and biology help me to understand the hormone called oxytocin that is responsible for sexual reproduction and impacting “behavior that is associated with love”. Blame the substance in your brain and not the devil for “impure thoughts” you are having. And psychology coupled with moral philosophy explains if I should ever have sex and when: depending alternative views you subscribe to, you get an answer. If you are a religiously inclined person then the “purpose of sex is for the creation of children, and that any other reason for sex is sinful and a subversion of God's law” or if you are a so called rational humanist sex is “neither as an act of supernatural significance nor an expression of conquest, but an exchange of pleasure and affection between freely consenting adults”. Voila, you have the answers you need - or so it seems).
Now, again why do our youth do what they do? Why do they gamble on your money and their life? The first impulse that comes to your mind is sympathy for the youth who are desperately trying to make ends meet (or build a house in Adigrat) and there is nothing wrong with that. Choosing a Jewish state as an alternative migration destination is also accepted. Some people think migration is bad. I think otherwise. In a place like Irob where alternative livelihood means are scarce, migration is the best choice that is available to us. I have all the respect for the young who are trying to find a place that can offer better opportunities. In order to survive we have to change our tactics and if that was not so our species would not survive - a la Darwin. Basically this opinion piece is in defense of migration. However, I disapprove when one plans the journey under extreme risky conditions and does it in secret with the eye on somebody else’s bank account. And such behavior has name: blackmailing.
God Bless the ‘saints’ at Wikipedia (what else can you call people working hard to provide you with free information) it was not difficult to find out how manipulation works out. “Emotional blackmail is a powerful form of manipulation in which people close to us threaten to punish us for not doing what they want. Emotional blackmailers know how much we value our relationships with them. They know our vulnerabilities and our deepest secrets. They can be our parents or partners, bosses or coworkers, friends or lovers. No matter how much they care about us, they use this intimate knowledge to win our compliance”. One thing the wiki authors failed to include is how local culture like ours can be a fertile ground to promote emotional manipulation. The western concept of private property is not applicable to us. A person doesn’t live for himself alone. His wealth belongs to the tribe or relatives. He has the responsibility to take care of his extended family. If he fails on such responsibility he will either be outcast or feel guilty for not doing what he is “supposed” to do: damn if you do it, damn if you don’t.
I am aware it would be naïve and simplistic to demand everyone in our community to take responsibility for their life with obvious problems of poverty and educational level. But the mindset is unacceptable and must change. Strictly speaking, nobody has responsibility towards anyone except for his kids until they become adults. The rest is something you do because you love to do. If our community members understand such facts all relationships would be healed, grumblings and blackmails would stop. Most of all we would grow both materially and mentally.
I feel bad about the fate of my relative at a Sinai prison but I am not shedding tears for him. Call me cold blooded or an outright barbarous savage. Let my name be so but I am respecting the decision (no matter how risky it is) he has made for his life and I wish him good luck saluting his decision to beat poverty in his own way.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Ziade Hailu shares with us an enlightening and educational book review written based on 'Letters of Ato Dillibis" concerning the Irob people of his time.
Letters from Alitiena: Book review
That this book review may reach you well the noble inhabitants of America, Europe, Asia Africa and Middle East, who read my previous opinion pieces, provide me comments which are more beautiful than the full ears of corn on fertile field, to me, poor reviewer in the desert of Abyssinia, Ziade, the son of Hailu, son of Weldu from the tribe of Irob. Or that is how Dillibis would start his book review, or again how a Somali would begin to write her autobiography.
The brave Ayaan Hirsi Ali, one of those rare women to ever walk on Somali soil recalls how she came to learn about her ancestry under a watchful eyes of her grandmother: “I am Ayaan, the daughter of Hirsi, the son of Magan. I am a Darod, a Harti, a Macherten, an Osman Mahamud”. “Get it right” her grandmother would insist shaking a switch at her. "The names will make you strong. They are your bloodline. If you honor them they will keep you alive. If you dishonor them you will be forsaken. You will be nothing. You will lead a wretched life and die alone. Do it again”. Every Somali is expected to learn the names of their ancestors by heart. It is a lowlander’s life. It used to be the same in Irob land and both places people used to pledge their allegiance to “their tribe leaders and not to the state”. In a sense there “were no citizens; there were tribes” and clans. That was before the highlanders insisted on private property rights and ownership issues reversed the entire community arrangements
You would suppose interesting books are written by highly learned people with full of serious history but sometimes one comes along the document written by a humble man that’s fun as well as educational. Such is the case with Ato Dillibi’s letters to the Vincentian theology students in Europe. His works are translated to English in 2008 at the “request of confreres of the Ethiopian province”. If you were like me agonizing on the lack of historical narrative of what went in early 20th century, Irob land and its environs the publication of these letters in a book form is indeed a welcome step in filling the dots of our history. Any cultural anthropologist would feast on discovery of such documents as any treasure hunter would on discovery of gold deposit inside the ship under the deep sea. Hats off for the Vincentians! Lately I hear that some concerned individuals are translating the letters back to Tigringa (Tigringa-Dutch-English-Tigringa) and that initiative if it bears fruit will make accessible a vast wealth of information to the public.
The man and his Dutch connections
The book introduces the young Fr. Cornelius de Wit leaving Netherlands “to become a missionary in Northern Ethiopia” and “there he stayed for 21 years, until his death in 1932”. This priest is a protagonist in the making of the letters to Dutch friends of Dillibis.
According to the accounts in the book Dillibis spoke and wrote Amharic and was able to communicate in French and Italian. It is said that he wrote the letters in Tigrina and had them translated to Dutch by Fr. Cornelius. It is hard to get to know the birth date of Dillibis (a shepherd doesn’t know his birth date) but it is assumed that he was born “around 1880” from Coptic parents. Plague broke out in Irob land and his parents took him to Keren in Eretria; and after his long illness, he was recovered and was introduced to Catholic priests and eventually became a Catholic.
With a passion and zeal of true convert, as he was, Dillibis served the missionaries and he contributed his best to the expansion of Catholic faith in Irob land and beyond. He accompanied the priests wherever they went and at times paid heavily for his faith and conviction. A man with a serious interest in various cultures, political arrangements and languages surely came handy for the missionaries. He was the best guide not only to the most inaccessible Abesha land but also to soul of Abesha mind. The book characterizes Dillibis as a talkative and Irobs in general with an appetite for talk.
However the observation “to talk is more pressing than food and drink especially for Irob tribe” is not convincing knowing the Irob character more of a listener than a talker. Whatsoever, Dillib’s tendency to communicate must have helped in spreading the Gospel. From comments by Fr. De Wit we learn that Dillibis’ looks were “not exactly handsome but he has a jovial character and is always cheerful”. Even though there is an attempt to compliment him for his character than for his looks, European standard of beauty is not hidden.
Dillibis’s disturbing modesty is flashed on every page and it is not surprising to find why he signs his letters as “Dillibis the sinner”. He is well traveled for a man of his time: from Tigray to Gonder, Gojam, Addis Ababa and even to Djibouti. His desire to migrate to a country that he describes as, “Eden rediscovered, the most famous country, glorious Holland” is evident. It’s disappointing to learn that his wishes were not fulfilled but you learn as well the history of curiosity to “cross the seven seas and live in the land of the white men” is as old as Irob’s debut with the missionaries.
It appears Dillibis was also eager to know more about Europe and its civilization and ready to learn from their wisdom. But the intention of the white men were mainly to convert the populace to the ‘true’ religion than empower the local people with insights of enlightenment values of logic, reason, secularism and pluralism which were almost universally accepted in Europe by then. Though I admit trying to explain ‘social contract theory’ to Wonna Woldegiorigis would not have been an easy feet to accomplish at the height of feudal succession system but they could always try.
While the Irobs in general are considered by many to be emotionally inaccessible folks who keep to themselves the joy and the occasional grief of life, what is curious about Dillibis is his openness about his feelings. He is so passionate about his wife, his kids, about his mother of whom he says “… I am convinced that between all the women who have been in the world after Eve, none was like my mother. She had the heart of a woman and the intellect of a man”. Ignore the male chauvinism there; that was 100 years back.
From my reading of the letters, it appears Dillibis was not only engaged in preaching the gospel as a catechist but was also engaged in developmental works. Probably the first project proposal for funding was crafted by Fr. De Wit for the famine victims of Irob in early 1920’s and the first project report was written by Dillibis in his capacity as ‘project officer’. He acknowledges the receipt of the funds by de Wit and thanks the donors for saving lives. Since then his descendants have sharpened their skills and written thousands of proposals and even created an industry of its kind.
The legacy of proposal writing for funding has continued to trigger the imagination of our elite. They recommend it as the preferred alternative route to obtain resources to support economic freedom for the poor. External assistance is fine from time to time but many experts in development suggest doing business to be the best way to beat poverty. History is a witness to such facts and you would be surprised to know why the Jewish people are rich and their counterparts are not. Probably penniless Jew is rare to find but penniless Irobs are everywhere. Until very recently the so called respected jobs were around churches and administrative jobs in government but not anymore. Civil service and church services are still worthy perusing for a “man doesn’t leave on bread alone” but if your goal is to “be rich or die trying” there seem to be complete reversal of that view.
The time
Slave trade was rampant in the country and the feudal political system was in its apex. The missionaries were rushing to Africa to save souls. When they were not busy engaged in saving, they were amusing themselves with the new culture and astounding African landscape. Being part of the white structure, they must have contributed their share to African colonial history as well. After the destruction of the First World War Europe was in relative peace. The country of “the brave and the free”, America, was under terrible economic depression only to explode in 1929.
Some of the best literary (drama, poetry and novels) works were being published both in Europe and America while Ireland and France were leading centers. Ernest Hemingway was having fun in Paris writing one of the finest works ever. Virginia Woolf, though had some nervous breakdown from time to time was brilliantly hammering on feminist topics and writing treaties on women’s place in society. P.G. Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh in Britain and some others in America were making names for their contribution to English literature. Mr. Waugh was in Addis during Hailesilassie’s coronation in October 1930 and his report was damning as he describes the entire process as “an elaborate propaganda effort”.
Meanwhile Albert Einstein had put physics upside down. A physics literate friend of mine told me that Einstein’s theories “had changed our understanding of the universe and became the cornerstones of quantum mechanics and general relativity”. I don’t understand those things much but I was told they were important. The same day Einstein received noble prize in physics Dillibis had written a letter introducing his Dutch friends to traditional medical practice called “mahguma”. Intellectual universe the two people inhabited is obviously worlds apart. Of course he didn’t as well forget to engage himself in adulating the missionaries for opening schools and teaching the true religion.
The contents
The first one or two paragraphs of the letters are always a boring pain to read. The long introductory lines begin with inquiries to his friends about the weather, health, famine conditions in “glorious Holland” and everything under the sun. Now, I am aware how the traditional letter writing style was originated in Irob land. “Enkab zetefelalenalu mealti kisab lomi bitsega tiena ….” Remember those lines before they were replaced by hi, or what is up dude type? Those expressions are even more beautiful when you use them to express love and longing for the special one in your teenage years. We all wrote love letters. Didn’t we? Before the internet mail services destroyed it and face book ruined it that style was familiar to many of us. I always believe the literary genius is activated when one is in love. I found out some of the letters I wrote years back could give a run for his money to the most gifted writer. Though I must admit my wife doesn’t always look at those letters form literary perspective.
Thanks to the questions put by ‘illustrious’ Dutch men, Dillibis partially satisfies our curiosity about the social, economic and political conditions and actors of his time. If there is anyone who complains about this work, the writer must be blamed for what he didn’t write than for what he did.
One of the most interesting details is about the time of Wonna Weldegiorgis’s 60-years bravery and ‘just’ rule. He also provided some portraits of national politics acting as a journalist. His account of Dejazmach Teferi’s rise to power and consequently to the throne and his (Dillibis) hatred for Ras Gugsa for his superstitious tendencies is clearly communicated to his Dutch friends. His literary skills are also displayed on some of the pages and here is one of my favorite:
“This evening I write to you in the shadow of the Mimosa tree, next to my house. The sun sends a more subdued light into the valley. I hear the singing of the shepherds who descend from the mountains with their flocks - I also hear the bleating of the goats, which call the young goats to be suckled”.
To whom would this vivid description fail to resonate with?
In nutshell, these letters are a story of Irob people and their resilience. It tells the story of suffering, injustice, feudal backwardness and also ‘smiles on many face and love in many hearts’. Year after year, the letters communicate the news of famine, drought, locust and conflicts with nearby Islamic tribes. One of the most depressing letters ever written was an account of his time during internal displacement (exile, he calls it) around Enderata in Tigray in 1929. He has brilliantly captured the humiliation and shame that the Irob people faced during ‘sidet’ in search of food more than any contemporary writer would.
Interestingly though he was conscious of the fleeting nature of their displacement and tells the news of the people who were not even close to being “bowed down” by anything. Thanks to their new faith the Irob tribes were trained to face challenges by way of mobilizing their Christian faith as coping strategy in the face of crisis. Biblical characters like Job, Joseph, Mary, Jesus and Daniel were invoked to unleash the internal resources that the community owns during terrible disaster situation. Invoking those names was inspiring the poor and energized the downtrodden to face challenges.
The only way to explain how the Irobs survived continuous disaster situations for years and years without giving up on living must be because there is some relationship between faith and resilience. I wish someone studies that aspect. I am not sure if Dilibis knew the Victorian poem by the English poet W.E. Henley, Invictus, but through his letters he has conveyed the power of “unconquerable soul”: “… I thank whatever gods may be; for my unconquerable soul. … My head is bloody, but unbowed”.
However, my analysis of ‘hard times’ of the Irob people should not give an impression of romantic attachment to underdog character whom everybody despises and at the end comes victorious. This is not a movie. This is real life and in real life smart people change their response to outside stimuli according to the demand of the time, sort of chameleon. By and large, my earlier harsh indictment of the Irob character that failed to rise up to the challenges of the 21st century - refusing to integrate to the world of entrepreneurship, detached itself from power politics and failed to produce serious scholarship - still remains intact.
The Irobs don’t like chameleon for its inconsistent behavior but perhaps that is exactly how they should respond to the realities as the place they inhabit is not Camelot, the capital of King Arthur's kingdom where “truth and goodness and beauty” reigns.
Dillibis’ letters are a stark warning to everyone who wants to avoid extreme poverty. Declining moral behavior followed by God’s outrage alone can’t possibly explain our miserable economic position. A better answer should come from the elite why the life of affluence and dignity been so elusive for generations in our region than what Dillibis provides.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Irob Scholarship and Educational Support Program (ISESP) Has Been Established in Ethiopia Operating Under the Umbrella of Irob Development Association (IDA) of Mekele, Tigray, Ethiopia.
Social Media, Committed Citizens and Irob Fund:
Communiqué from ISESP Committee-Nov 2011
After we have posted the news of proposed fund raising dinner that is slated for December 31st 2011, many of you have raised some valid questions regarding the status of the program and its legitimacy. It is evident more information is required on the Irob Scholarship and Educational Support Program (ISESP) and this communiqué is issued to answer just that.
What is this all about?
Goron group junior volunteer cadres are committed to social accountability and here is what is achieved so far. But first, for starters let us answer some important questions (in fact three) that may be troubling you all the way. “What is this new round of initiative different from others and why would I give my hard earned money and how would I trust you?” Since trusting too much these days is unsafe and those who verify before they trust are wise, let us try to convince you that one initiative is different, it is achievable, it’s an idea whose time has come and those on driver’s seat are people of unquestionable integrity and sense of service to the community. Those of you hell-bent on not getting convinced before we make our case, please leave the room. (lol).
Here we go: there are different groups and names like Goron and others that have emerged in the front of Irob related initiatives. One such initiative that we want to bring to your heart is - Irob Scholarship and Education Support Program. Its objective is not entirely new (except new media is being utilized for social change) as such since many other initiatives have also been concerned with wellbeing of Irob from this or that dimension. The program is about the wellbeing of Irob people through educational opportunities and support – arguably the most reliable and sustainable way of transforming the situation of our people. The program operates under Irob Development Association. This was decided because at this point in time there appeared several small groups with several names in the name of Irob and adding another one to the list in the name of small group of people would seem too much, at least in our view. Therefore, this program abandoned the idea of standing on its own with its legal personality and we went for merging it to IDA with necessary autonomy as it enjoys all the privileges it can get from IDA as far as the basic vision and missions are complementary to each other.
Vision: The Scholarship and Educational support program (ISESP) aims to empower Irob minority students by supporting their educational efforts though scholarship opportunities. It seeks to make education accessible to academically qualified but financially needy students by providing them financial assistance. Further, it hopes to train and nurture these young men & women to be future leaders of the nation.
Mission: The Irob Scholarship and Educational support program ( ISESP) has a mission to provide disadvantaged students in Irob woreda, and their schools, with support and educational resources so that they may improve their communities and break the cycle of poverty in the region.
Objective: Aims to support Schools in Irob woreda and to provide scholarship opportunities to academically qualified, those who demonstrate leadership qualities but financially needy Irob students by providing them financial assistance.
This program has working guidelines and it has principles and maximum possible procedures to ensure impartiality and equal opportunity for Irob students as long as they satisfy the requirements and resources are available. Our target for this year is five hundred thousand birr (500,000.00). We understand this is an ambitious plan but with the support of every one of you it is not something unachievable.
Achievements So far
Committee Appointed: The program operates under IDA legally but it has its own stirring committee fully authorized and appointed officially by IDA board director and the committee is constituted of the following: Hulluf Weldesilassie, Program coordinator; Ziade Hailu, Addis Ababa representative; Alema Gidey, Europe Representative; Daniel Aduma, Canada & Australia representative; Kahsay Debesu, Assistant Coordinator/Mekelle; Hagos Gebray, USA representative. You are cordially requested to collaborate with these volunteers for a noble purpose of saving a generation and overcoming poverty through education.
Bank Account opened: There are officially appointed Irob individuals to facilitate the actual operation of the program locally – in Adigrat. The local committee is composed of: Hulluf Weldesilassie, Kahsay Debesu, Kassa Zigta Mekonen Bulad .
The above four with a letter from the IDA board director, had opened a bank account for the program. They shall transact the financial issues or activities of this program. These are individual who we believe are sincerely committed to Irob cause and they shall ensure that all the money is used properly. They will also organize and manage the fundraising occasions locally. The cooperation and support of everyone is requested here too. When you do your contributions please write your full names for record purposes and issuance of some acknowledgement documents.
Committee Established: The scholarship awarding committee is set up, with an understanding to operate under the general guidelines of the ISESP for selection criteria. Educational achievements and leadership qualities are given prominence for selection. Individuals with academic excellence and keen eyes for spotting talent are nominated.
Proposal Developed: Formal project proposal is developed for first round of beneficiary students to solicit funds and anybody interested to have the document and search for funds is welcome.
Fund raising: Local Fund raising dinner is arranged at the end of December in Addis Ababa to raise some money and introduce the program to stakeholders. The practice will replicate in other towns and cities as well.
On the need to establish Advisory board: Since this initiative is being run on the bases of volunteerism, more willing souls are required to join the cause to act as advisory board. (The most senior, senior cadres please stand up!) Inputs are still solicited from all of you on innovative ways of running the fund and on its sustainability strategy. You shall be appointed as Advisory board. Thanks to the new media geography is irrelevant; your hearts are what matters.
That is why we “never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has”.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Ziade Hailu's Report on the Celebration of Meskel 2004/2011 at Dawhan Town
The D Day is up on us. The president of Tigray region their excellencies, Atto Abbay Woldu and Abune Tesfesilasie, are among the distinguished guests. The administrator of Irob woreda Mr. Rufael presented yearly performance report. The hall in Dawhan is overflowing with humans and highly over suffocated. nothing like this has been ever witnessed in that small town. your reporters in the ground will be updating you every minute.
Update # 6. According to the report by the Administrator of the woreda Asimba and its environs t up to Ggundagude is earmarked for Eco tourism. Investors are invited to assess tourism potential in the region. Also investment in beles is highly recommended.
update # 5. Breaking news: It was announced just few minutes back that the commercial bank of Ethiopia will start operations in Dawhan town beginning from October one. This is an important step for the region with long long years of history but no formal financial institutions for years.
Update #8. It is raining heavily in Dawhan town. After an interesting luncheon with variety of food including great people are back to conference center. Question and answer session is being conducted. Though some people are complaining that the festival has become more of a serious stuff than a celebration of culture. If the rain doesn't spoil things the best part they said is yet to come. Your reporters myself in the main studio and Huluf Weldesilase at the ground shall be updating you every minute of every hour during this historic day. Don't go away.
Update #9. Further reiterating what his Excellence the bishop said in the morning about the resilience of the Irob people, the president of Tigray region is making a final speech. In brief his speech focuses economic empowerment. The Irob people suffered enough but that has to stop. He compared the irob topography to Israel and according to him that country receives less annual rainfall than Irob region yet it has become bread basket. If Irobs invest in bees, water harvesting, 'tele/begi' and work hard there is no way that the appalling poverty will continue. He said something in line of Paulo Cohelo's witting that if a community decides to change their fate then the universe shall conspire to make it happen. He received applause from the audience for comparing Irob to Israel. Now, we have heard the speech, witnessed the fanfare and rhetoric we wait for actions. This festival has clearly put Irob issues on the map of the powerful in Mekele town or so it seems.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Assabol Dam Irrigation Scheme
Assabol Dam and Adjoining Irrigation Scheme
Operation & Maintenance Management Package
by Dr. Bruno Strebel
Operation & Maintenance Management Package
by Dr. Bruno Strebel
Friday, August 19, 2011
Global Irob Discussions on the Need of Forming "Lideta School Alumni Association" Is Underway!.
የ “Lideta School Alumni Association” በተመለከተ
ክፍል ሁለት፤ ተጨማሪ አስተያየት
ክፍል አንድን “Concerning: Lideta School Alumni Association” የሚል የኢንግሊዝኛ ጽሑፍ ይመልከቱ።
አብዛኛው የኢሮብ ወጣት ለልማት እጁን ለመዘርጋት ዝግጁ መሆኑን እያረጋገጠ ነው።
አሁን ጅማሮው በልደታ ማርያም ትምህርት ቤት ላይ ያቶከረ ቢሆንም ቀጣይነት ያለው ተነሳሽነት መሆኑ ያመልክታል።
ይህንን የተቀደሰ ሓሳብ ተግባረዊ ለማድረግ ሁለት መሰረታዊ ነገሮች በትዩይ መቅደም አለባቸው።
አንደኛ
1. የትምህርት ቤቱ (የልደታ) ርእሰመምህር በጣምራ የሚያዙት የሂሳብ ቁጥር በቀድሚያ መከፈት አለበት
ይህም አቶ ሙዑዝ ፍሱሕ
Meuz Fessuh
18. august 14:34
hi guys:
i have contacted aba habtegebriel the director of lideta secondary school.he said he is has prepared the articles and memorandum of association,and that he will open an account in a weeks time together with committee in mekele.
በገለጹልን መሰረት በቅርቡ ተግባራዊ እንደሚሆን ተስፋችን የጸና ነው።
2. ለመርዳት የተነሳሳ ሁሉ በግሉ በመንቀሳቀስ የፈቀደውን ገንዘብ በቀጥታ ወደ ሂሳብ ቁጥሩ ማስገባት ይችላል
3. በያለበት አከባቢ በቡድ በመንቀሳቀስና በፈለገውና በፈቀደው አላማ ማለት
• መጸህፍትና የትምህርት መሳሪያ ማደራጃ ቡድን
• በኮምፒዩተርና ያዲስ ቶክኒዮሎጂ ግኝቶች ማደራጃ ቡድን
• በባህልና ትያተር ማደራጃ ቡድን
• በታሪክን ስነምርምር ጥናት
• በመምህራን ደሞዝና መደጎሚያ ማጠናከርያ መዋጮ
• ተማሪዎችን በምግብ ለመደጎም የሚንቀሳቀስ ቡድን እንዲሁም ወዘተ
በቡድን መደረጀት የፈለጉ ደግሞ በአከባቢያቸው በተስማሙበት መልኩ የራሳቸው ሂሳብ ቁጥር ከፍተው በመንቀሳቀስ ብርን ካሰባሰቡ በኋላ ለኢሮብ ህዝብ ይጠቅማል ሲሉ በተስማሙበት መልክ ወጪ እንዲሆን በማመላከት ብሩን በቀጥታ በልደታ ርእሰመምህር ጣምራነት በተከፈተው ሂሳብ መግባት አለበት።
እያንዳንዱ በፈቃደኝነትና በራሱ አነሳሽት የተደራጀው ቡድን ሂሳቡን ለትምህርትቡቱ ሂሳብ ቁጥር መላኩን ለኢሮብ ተወላጆች ሁሉ ማሳወቅ አለበት።
የትምህርት ቤቱ ርእሰመምህርና አብረውት በጣምራነት የሚሰሩ የኮሚቶው አባላት ደግሞ የስራ አፈጻጸምን ዝርዝር መግለጫ በሳይበር በእንተርነት በኩል በተለየዩ አህጉራት ተበትነን ለምንገኝ የኢሮብ ልጄች እንዲያበስሩ የግድ ይላቸዋል።
የልማት ተሳታፊዎቹ የኢሮብ አባላት ያዋጡተ ብር በአግባቡ በጥቅም ላይ መዋሉን ሲያረጋግጡ እርካታቸው ለበለጠ ተሳታፊነት ይጋብዛቸውና ሞተሩ እንደታደሰለት ባቡር፤ የልማት እንቅስቃሶአቸው ፍጥነት እንዲጨምር ይሆናል። ይህም ጥረታችን በአንድነት አጣምረን ተጣምረን፤ በቡድን ቡድን ከመደራጀት አልፈን፤ አቶ አለማ ተስፋይ ከዚህ ቀጥሎ “Lideta School Alumni Association” ሲሉ እንዳቀረቡት ፤
Alema Tesfaye
16. august 01:53
Dear Haileselasie Yohannes, I am very happy to see your wonderful and constructive comments on how to proceed once the organization is established and set on the right track. The steps that you proposed to go forward with this nobel idea of Lideta school alumni formation are appreciable. You also stated “I am assuming that this association is established by the current Director of Lideta Mariam School of Alitena (who have long ago have shared me his honorable idea) and I believe we have to be accountable to the school administration and not any other organ.” This statement is completely new for me. To get more evidence of it, I tried to call back home and ask about it and the people whom I contacted back home told me that they never heard about any association which is established.
Secondly, you stated in your above post “Under the umbrella of the Lideta School Alumni Association we can organize ourselves; say for example;
1. The book donor’s group
2. Computer donor’s group
3. “Best Teachers” financing group
4. Irob - cultural group
5. Irob-History group
6. “Water and food for the students” organizing group “.
This is very important comment that leads us well to hit our target after the association is established. I believe and stand firmly on it. But first of all, we have to establish the Alumni association of our historic Lideta School. It doesn’t matter who created it as we are just fighting for Irob people’s life improvement which focused on enlightening the future of our beloved Irobs back home.
Fugi niada yakoy.
ይሁን ወይስ እኔ ከወቅቱ የልደታ ርእሰመምህር በመጋቢት ወር 2003 ዓ.ም ጥንስሱን ብቻ ሳይሆን አንዴት መተግበር ይችላል ሲሉ ተጨንቀውና ተጠበው መላዎችን ሲዳስሱ እነደሰማሁት ይሁን ወይስ ሌላ አደስ አወቃቀር ወዘተ ለማደራጀትና ለማወቀር እንችላለን።ይህም ክፍል ሁለትን የጋብዛል።
ሁለተኛ
ክፍል ሁለት ከክፍል አንድ ጎን ለጎን የሚካሄድ የውይይት ድርጊት ነው። ይህም ሂደት ነው። በአንድ ዠንበር የሚሆን ስላልሆነ ቀስ በቀስ እየተወያየን በሰከነና በረጋ መንፈስ በውይይት አሁን በምናደረገው በሳይበር ዓለም ሃሳብ ለሃሳብ ልብ ለልብ በመለዋወጥና በማብሰል የሚደረስ ይሆናል። ስለዚህ አሁን በተጀመረው በሳል አካሄድ ምክክረችንን እንቀጥል።
ወንድሜ አለማ ተስፋይ አንዳለው ፤ሃሳቡን ማንም ያፍልቀው ማንም ዋናው ቁምነገር የዚህ የተቀደሰ አላማ ግብ መምታት ጅማሮና ውጤት መጨበጣችንና ማየታችን ነው።
ላረጀው ላፈጀው መንፈስን የሚያውደው፡
አዲሱ ትውልዳችን የለውጥ መዘውር ነው።
የኢሮብ ወጣቱ ትውልድ በረቱ ተበራቱ
በጠባቡ ሳይሆን በሰፊው አትቱ
በጥላቻ ሳይሆን በፍቅር ወትውቱ
የዛሮውኑ ሳይሆን የጥንቱን ተመልከቱ።
አጻጻፍ አነጋገር አሳምሩ!
ሌላውን ለማስገደድ አትዳክሩ!
በፍቅር በሃሴት ተከባበሩ!
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ተደጋገፉ ተግባቡ እንጂ አትጎነታተሉ
ተዋደዱ ተከባበሩ እንጂ አትወነጃጀሉ
አጻጻፍ አነጋገር አሳምሩ!
ሌላውን ለማስገደድ አትዳክሩ!
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