Tag: Ethiopia
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Americans by Choice: Sharing the Joy of Teaching
Semra Seifu learned the basics of teaching at an unusually young age: She was only seven years old when she set up her first classroom in her Addis Ababa, Ethiopia home.She would line up school notebooks on her bed, arranging them in neat rows, just like the desks at her actual school. Once the classroom…
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Taking Coffee, Talking HIV in Ethiopia
Sheikh Hammad Hadji Muhammad is treating the spread of HIV and AIDS in his Ethiopian village with coffee. And the treatment is working.As an elder and an imam, Sheikh Hammad holds a place of honor in his village and at the coffee ceremonies that are central to its social life.He is using that level of…