Dear Irobs around the world: Indam Nabamah, Sam Labamah, Qaysit Alemawianah I greet you profoundly!
First of all, I would like to thank those who created this website. I'm very glad that I'm able to share my thoughts with you, Irobs, through this website. Without this website, I wouldn't be able to communicate with you and I wouldn't try to do so on other websites.
Secondly, please allow me to share some of my concerns (problems) with you all hoping and seeking to get some sort of solutions for them. What worries me deeply and concerns me a lot, I think, are not problems that I'm facing alone. I believe that most of you, Irobs, have been experiencing similar problems to mine. So, I want to ask you, why don't we come together to address our problems and seek the solution together?
These problems happen to be not individual person's problems but rather general Irob problems. Today, as all of us hear from distance and/or witness by our own eyes, we've a lot problems in our native Irobland and in Diaspora as well. Too many dreadful things are knocking on our doors and already stepped in and ruining the lives of our people. In other words, our poor Irob people back in Irobland are suffering from chronic poverty, diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB and from other nature-caused and man-created problems like drought, unresolved border situation, violence, alcoholism, teenage-prostitution, sexual abuse against minor females by military in the border area, etc. All these social-ills are vividly commonplace events in Irobland and, as a consequence, are threatening our people endemically. As a matter of fact, according to some reliable information available to us, most of Irobs in Irob Woreda tested for HIV is found positive.
Our ancestral fathers used to solve their problems through democratic dialogue and discussion, united to shoulder each other's burdens; they were aware of things before they threaten them; and they were fast enough in solving them as well. But we today have failed to inherit our fathers' good customs and practices in solving problems affecting the Irob society. We failed to take responsibilities of our younger brothers and sister who lack our social, economical, and moral supports.
Our community is seriously wounded with unnecessary divisions and disharmony. We tend to forget that in our culture how our mothers and fathers brought us up; how they sympathized with each other and how they agonized and wept over each other's unhappy conditions. Our willingness to shoulder each other's burdens seems that is buried with our fathers and mothers. Our love for each other has lain. We seem to ignore that a huge wall of division is being built among us. A divisive wall, a wall which we need to tear it down as fast as possible: a wall of division and difference which we naturally don't need to have. We tend to forget that we're bound to each other; not only by the ties of common humanity, but that we're related to each other more tender relations of blood. That we're one people, that is, more than one people: we're one family.
Sisters and brothers, it's an urgent time that all of us around the world should be aware of and come together and discuss how to help fix the chronic problems that our people are undergoing socially and morally as well as geo-politically.
I'm pretty sure that if we unite and educate each other how to work together for the sake of our people back in homeland, Ethiopia, and those scattered in foreign countries, we can make a great difference. We can do lots of good things like many other people who're caught up in similar situation but performing better than us in solving their own social and community problems.
We should, therefore, use a means of our ancestral common bond and solidarity to solve our tiny ethnic community’s problems, which is a possible means to save our people from extinction. The time has come when we must act for ourselves! Let’s no longer be silent! Let's be true hearted! Let's work together both on our language issue which is a question of identity and above all on our general problems which are question of life and death. Let's work on both things on parallel!
A person, who's nicknamed “Silahke Sangade”, on the message board of this website under the title Irob and politics-question of destiny,states at the end of the article "I want to believe that we can decide on how much we can RISE and FALL": “It's all in our hands, in our minds and within our hearts. No body will do us justice; we've to demand it. No body will develop us; we've to do ourselves. If not we're betraying our people. We've to shake off the problems by removing unnecessary situation. The wisdom is UNITED WE STAND AND DIVIDED WE FALL”. I deeply appreciate Silahke Sangade and definitely agree with him. Thank you Silahke Sangade!
Let our motto be "Irob should be and will be saved and developed by her own daughters and sons"!!!
Finally, I would like to tell you that I love you, Irobs, so much!!! I will take you with your mistakes, I will stick with you!!!
Your Irob brother,
W.T., Europe
June, 2009
Solar Electrification of Ethiopian Village Wins Global Green Energy Award London, 11 June 2009: Tonight, the world’s leading green energy prize awarded £20,000 and the Ashden Award for electrification of rural areas to the Solar Energy Foundation (SEF). HRH the Prince of Wales presented the Award to Samson Tsegaye, the Ethiopian country representative of SEF, for setting up the biggest solar energy programme in Ethiopia.
"At the end of World War II a large of the world was confronted with the dramatic evidence about the cruelty the civilian population had experienced. Since the dramatic images of the bombing of the Hiroshima and the hopeless faces of the victims of the Nazi regime in the concentration camps are in the mind of many generations of human beings. Not surprisingly, the hope that these events would never occur again captured their imagination and led to two major developments in international law" (Ranter S. Abrams G., 1997, p.152). (To read the Article, click here!)
Since it is not possible to mention here all the problems which youth are facing in Ethiopia, this paper will discuss and mention only the major problems affecting particularly the youth: such as personal problems, unemployment, poverty, HIV/AIDS, violence against females and political instability.(To read the full Article, click here!)
“If everyone took an eye, the whole world would be blind.”---M. Gandhi.
To understand your case, you need to contemplate upon similar historical or imaginary events. Intelligent people can formulate their issues and you have to imitate them in order to understand yourself and your case through such light. Because, all human beings' problems in the contemporary world are more or less the same; and through knowledge of self, you can understand others; and through realization of others' problem, also you can understand yourself. I can understand my neighbor more through myself than anybody else. Therefore, understanding each other in the light of morality, in the luminosity of fraternal eyes will be the only best solution of getting love instead of revenge. (To read the full Artilce, click here!
Ato Ghebray Hawku of Daya (Meda Tsebebo) said, “Today I am crazy, but tomorrow you will be all crazy people" (See: ILEA News Letter, ADDA: Abba Hagos Woldu & Asfaha Zigta, 1997)
by Abba Hagos Woldu
THANK YOU, IROB COMMUNITY, TO HAVE THIS WEB SITE!
Dear fellow Irobs, I thank you for making a great effort and giving an extraordinary support to remain committed, just as we all are concerned, not to allow our culture to be eradicated and/or our identity to be lost. In the 21st century it is amazing that people kill each other to obtain a small peace of land, where people have been living by handout aid and forging relief. The problem created between the two nations is not by the general public but rather by some individuals who seemed to lack prudence and great historical responsibility for the future generations of the two nationalities. (Click Here to Read the Full Article.--->>)
In my humble way of understanding it, today we need to do something about our language. And that's why I wanted to write down my little opinion here and let you judge, or hopefully share your own opinion. By
Subject: In doing the right thing (putting our language in writing) we should not do the wrong thing (depriving it of its true and original name – Saho)! Please remember our language has been there long before we (current generation) all were born and it has had a name "Saho". So why change it now? Our job is to find a way of lettering it! There are written proves and records to that effect and also our people clearly know it. (Click for More...!)
By Hulluf Weldesilassie Kahsay, University Student
Kenya, Africa
April 25, 2009
APRIL 25TH 2009
QUESTIONS AND PROPOSALS FOR THE FOURTH IROB-SAHO TELEPHONIC CONFERENCE
"The present study is concerned with the sedimentation in the Assabol watershed in North Ethiopia and was conducted between July 2006 and July 2007. The main part of the evaluated data was acquired during the field study in summer 2006 in the watershed area (6 July to 9 September 2006).
The aim of this study is to get a better understanding of the sedimentation processes in the watershed of the Assabol Flood Water Harvesting Scheme, especially with regards to the sediments filling the reservoir of this scheme. The Harvesting Scheme is initiated by the ADDA (Adigrat Diocesan Development Action) and the thesis should reveal practical information for this project. The thesis is written under the lead of Prof. Dr. H. Hurni from the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) at the University of Bern." (Andres Strebel)
"To dream is easy, but to turn a dream into a reality may often be beyond practical expectations. Nightmares,
however, may give birth to the dreams. How could the people living to the east of Adigrat on the steep slopes
of the Rift Valley be saved from repeated droughts and hunger? How could those people be provided with a
minimum of food security? How could the quality of their lives be improved? Their self-reliance was a remote
dream, an ambitious ideal, but too hazy to be seen as a practical short-term objective ..." (Kevin O'Mahonney, M.Afr.).
We welcome you in the name of the people of Irob, as well as in the name of those of us who are concerned about their welfare. Once you read about the mission and goals of our nonprofit organization, and determine that it is a cause worthy of your support, we hope you will join us as a partner in our efforts to help a people in dire need of our assistance.
Here is the background of our organization:
The Irob Relief and Rehabilitation Operations Brotherhood (IRROB), Inc., is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2003 in Washington, DC to provide financial and material assistance primarily to the Irob people, those who live in the northeastern section of Ethiopia.
And here is why help – yours and ours – is so urgently needed:
The Irobs are the victims of persistent poverty caused not only by recurrent drought, but also by the man-made problems of war and displacement. They will be able to overcome their chronic socioeconomic conditions – and improve their lives – only through sustained relief, rehabilitative, educational, and developmental programs......and that is exactly why our nonprofit organization was founded: to provide those lifesaving programs!
We promise that you will find this web site both informative and educational, with many photographic scenes of the Irob area of Ethiopia, as well as links to other sites of interest other than Irob.
Once you learn about the horrible conditions that those living in Irob must endure...day after day...year after year... we hope that you will want to join us in our efforts to assist them.
How can you help.
To do so, you need only share with them just a small portion of your material blessings which, in return, will bring you much spiritual blessing and joy. To help please click "donate" on the menu which will lead you to a secure page, where you can use your credit card to make a donation online. Your contribution of any amount, of course, will be fully deductible (as allowed by the IRS) in the United States for tax purposes.
Another way to help our cause is to click on any button or banner of those variety of shopping stores online that are posted on and linked to our web site. Then you can shop online for the items or merchandise of interest to you...those things you would normally buy in stores. Doing so will not cost you a dime, but it will benefit our organization by generating desperately needed funds to carry out our projects for the Irob people. Thank you on behalf of all those whom we serve.
The Irob people, who inhabit arid highlands at the frontline border between Ethiopia and Eritrea, fled the war between the two countries at the end of the 1990s. Only in the past three years have they started resettling on their land.
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Dank dem Assabol-Staudamm im Norden Äthiopiens können .... aufbau des Assabol-Damms beginnen. 2008. wird der Staudamm eingeweiht werden. Ein ...
web.caritas.ch/media_features/fce/Wasser_Aethiopien.pdf
The conference ended well indeed. There have been four months of concrete studies and mobilization of Irobs in Ethiopia as well as in some parts of the world outside the country. (Submitted by Abba Abraham Hailu Weldu and posted on September 30, 2008) More ...
A Written Language for the Irob People Is Under Development According to the electronic message recently reached IRROB.org, conferences addressing the issues of a written Irob language had been conducted in various places in Ethiopia this year. The conferences had focused mainly on what alphabets to use for the written language of Irob people and what name to give the language itself. According to the report received, at each location two-day-meetings were held to discuss and reach a consensus on the issues. (More...)
Ethiopians living with HIV especially vulnerable to food crisis ... when discussing the scale of the food crisis in this part of Ethiopia known as Irob, ..
Gezategaru online voice discussion forum interview
with Dr Soori Dean of Mekelle Institute of Technology (MIT) Mekelle, Ethiopia. Dr Soori explained the successes and challenges of MIT. Interview (Source: Aiga)
Building knowledge - Ethiopia draws (video)thousands of students to new universities (Source: Deutsche Welle)
Tiny tribe (Irob) claim Ethiopian allegiance in border row with Eritrea
by Emmanuel Goujon – Mon Dec 22, 2008
DOWHAN, Ethiopia (AFP) – Groups of children giggling as they walk home from school in the shadow of Mount Asimba and the timeless stillness of Ethiopia's northeastern highland convey a deceptive sense of peace.
ECOTOURISM POSSIBILITIES: Irobland
by Dr. Paul B. Henze Irobland cannot not be transformed overnight from a degraded, isolated region into a flourishing one, but ecotourism development would open the way to further initiatives which could make the region an appealing destination for climbers, trekkers and ordinary visitors interested in experiencing a historic region and a mildly exotic traditional way of life. The greatest advantage would be for the Irob people themselves who would gain a source of pride along with opportunities for employment and a means of improving living conditions of future generations.
Please watch this (A Kitchen Oi lFire Video) even if its something you already know- and then have your family watch it. I never realized that a wet dishcloth can be a one size fits all lid to cover a fire in a pan!This is a dramatic video (30-second, very short) about how to deal with a common kitchen fire ... oil in a frying pan.
Read the following introduction, then watch the show ... It's a real eye-opener!! (A Kitchen Oil Fire Video)
At the Fire Fighting Training school they would demonstrate this with a deep fat fryer set on the fire field. An instructor would don a fire suit and using an 8 oz cup at the end of a10 foot pole toss water onto the grease fire. The results got the attention of the students. The water, being heavier than oil, sinks to the bottom where it instantly becomes super- heated. The explosive force of the steam blows the burning oil up and out.
On the open field, it became a thirty foot high fireball that resembled a nuclear blast. Inside the confines of a kitchen, the fireball hits the ceiling and fills the entire room. Also, do not throw sugar or flour on a grease fire. One cup creates the explosive force of two sticks of dynamite. This is a powerful message----watch the video and don't forget what you see.
Tell your whole family about this video. Or better yet, send this to them. (Source: E-mail)
BORICHA, Ethiopia, 28 May 2009 – Every week, mothers from the drought-affected villages of Ethiopia's Boricha district bring their children to be weighed and measured at the Yirba Health Centre.
Addis Ababa — Ethiopia on Friday signed a financing agreement with France amounting to 210 million Euros for the implementation of the Ashegoda Wind Power Project in Tigray State.The agreement was signed between by the Chief Executive Officer of the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo), Mihret Debebe and ambassador of France to Ethiopia, Jean-Christophe Belliard.
Senior military officers in Ethiopia, including a general, had plotted to assassinate top government officials, Communications Minister Bereket Simon said Friday, adding that 40 people were under arrest.
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