wedding day

Swimming to the Seder

Gotta get there, they can't do the plagues without us!
"what's a plague , mommy?"

ajws visit to Adami Tulu

Muya Weavers and Potters Addis Ababa

Traditional Oromo Head Spinning Dance in Ethiopian Cultural Restaurant Habesha 20000 Addis Ababa

American Jewish World Service projects in Ethiopia

Zegeye Asfaw is a former government minister from the Oromo region (the
Oromya regional state now covers a huge swathe of west, central and southern
Ethiopia). His involvement in government dates back to 1974 when the Emperor
Haile Selassie was deposed by a Marxist military junta. Initially he helped to
prepare the “Land Reform Proclamation” and became minister for land reform.
Later he disagreed with the policies of the military leader, Mengistu Haile
Mariam, and was a political prisoner for ten years, from 1979 to 1989.


Country
Ethiopia
Organization
HUNDEE Oromo Grassroots Development Initiative

In 1995 Asfaw established HUNDEE, a local NGO whose major programs include community organizing, cereal bank promotion and networks, civic education, environmental rehabilitation and women's and older persons' economic support.

What is a cereal bank?


A cereal bank is a community-based institution involving a village or a group of villages that stocks and manages the operations of acquiring, pricing and supplying grain. The purpose of a cereal bank is to improve food supply in hungry season, especially during extended drought periods. The local community has to decide what sort of cereal bank would best answer its needs.

Grain is bought either from the village, or from elsewhere when the prices are low, just after harvest; it is stored until it is needed, and then sold to the villagers at reasonable price. Everyone benefits. The villagers are paid a better price for their grain, when the market prices are low, and they then have money in their pockets to pay their taxes, school fees, and other expenses. When the market prices are high and granaries are empty, they can buy grain from the cereal bank at a price they can afford. Since the bank is in the village, no one has to travel long distances to buy grain and then transport it back home. Thus, time is saved as well as transportation money.

Welcoming AJWS to Siquee Maqarta Women's Cooperative

AJWS in ET