When in Ethiopia, you should know that family values are important for everyone living there, especially for women. To be able to start dating you, they need to understand that you can be trusted. Trust is an important factor in the culture of Ethiopians, and it’s valued more than love...
Clothing |ልብስ One of the most distinctive aspects of Ethiopian culture is its traditional clothing, which is made from a cloth called Shemma and used to create the "Habesha lebes." Shemma is a cotton fabric that is woven in colorful patterns and worn by both men and women. Ethiop...
We’ve heard today from dear friends who saw the video and know us (including in our unpleasant, imperfect, not in the video moments), and from strangers who saw themselves in the lyrics or story: adoptees, Ethiopians, single moms, women of color, grandmothers, dancers, aspiring ballerinas,...
“You know what,” she said, “I will never, ever want to abort.” I was overjoyed with her decision and wanted to make some effort to help her. I called some friends who owned a private clinic; they provide free delivery service for needy women like her so I connected her to them....
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health acknowledges, however, that provision of RMC is also a key intervention to bring unreached women to health facilities for maternity care services and thus, an important component in achieving their 2020 goals. To date, some efforts have been made to integrate RMC ...
Keywords: Gada System, Makaban, Reeda, Guda gambela DOI : 10.7176/IAGS/77-01 Publication date: November 30 th 2019doi:10.7176/iags/77-01Ibsa Aliyi UsmaneJournal of Culture, Society and Development
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Integral culture Masala’s own time line has been taking here, there, and everywhere. As a child, she heard broken Hebrew along with Amharic at the home of her Ethiopian-born parents, who made aliyah in 1981. Like many first-generation Israelis, she did her damnedest to blend in and tak...
was at the forefront of the integration of women into combat arms, and served overseas in a combat deployment to Iraq. In Iraq, she was the Organizational Liaison Officer where she facilitated communications between senior stakeholders which allowed them to control operations and coordinate assets ont...
Among the reasons that surfaced during the conference were absence of democratized education, poor teacher preparation programs, unprofessional education policy and education system administration, the political and social marginalization of women, lack of teaching materials in native languages, insufficient ...