Life Lessons from Kechene School

This week at Kechene School – officially registered as Initiative Ethiopia International Children’s Association (I prefer to make this distinction so as not to confuse Kechene School with similar projects in the area) – teachers were administering mid-year exams to all three grades: KG-1, KG-2, and 1st grade. I could not have been more proud [...]

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Life as We Know It, and a Glimmer of Hope from Rural Ethiopia

The State of Life
Lately, I hate to admit, I’ve become a bit pessimistic about the future of mankind and Mother Earth. Any time I start reading too much environmental literature I eventually get fed-up and have to give it a break – sometimes a few days, sometimes weeks, sometimes a month or more. The more [...]

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Appropriate Technology, Vocational Training and a few thoughts on Sustainability

As promised, this is the follow-up report on the time I spent with SABG in Awassa, Ethiopia.
The idea of using appropriate technology to serve the poor and to increase their standard of living is by no means a novel one. I was quickly reminded of that point last week by a friend who has [...]

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Clean Water

This is part one of a two-part entry recapping a long weekend I spent in Awassa, Ethiopia with Selam Awassa Business Group. Part two will be due in a few days. Happy New Year everyone, and many blessings and good health in 2009!
Monday morning I joined Yared Sisay, who heads the Selam Awassa Water Drilling [...]

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