With less than half of the global population receiving essential health services, Rotary members are taking action to connect those in need to life-saving treatment and disease prevention, while helping to strengthen community health systems.
Teguest Yilma Bultcha, Chair of Rotary’s Ethiopia National PolioPlus Committee and founding member of the Rotary Club of Addis Ababa Entoto, is one of six Rotary People of Action: Champions of Health. She was selected from more than 100 nominees, and is being recognized for her work to ensure communities maintained access to basic health services and for promoting the resumption of essential immunization programs against polio and measles during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A long-standing managing editor of weekly newspaper Capital, Teguest Yilma has put her journalistic experience to work, raising awareness about polio vaccinations and the importance of strengthening routine immunization programs. She has also worked alongside fellow Rotary members to expand services to children who have suffered the impacts of polio.
“COVID-19 shows us how important a strong healthcare system is,” said Rotary International President Holger Knaack. “Treating and preventing disease is one of Rotary’s top causes. I am inspired by our members who are helping millions of our most vulnerable in receiving essential health services. With local knowledge, skills and innovative thinking, our six Champions of Health are strengthening health care systems and helping more people gain access to care in the long term.”
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Rotary’s Ethiopia National PolioPlus Committee has focused on maintaining routine immunization services for children. Under Teguest Yilma’s leadership, the Committee developed public awareness campaigns and events, including a high-level panel discussion in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) and other partners that addressed how to prioritize and adapt immunization services during the Covid-19 pandemic, and how to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on vaccine-preventable diseases.
Rotary brings together a global network of volunteer leaders dedicated to tackling the world’s most pressing humanitarian challenges. Rotary connects 1.2 million members of more than 36,000 Rotary clubs in over 200 countries and geographical areas. Their work improves lives at both the local and international levels, from helping those in need in their own communities to working towards a polio-free world.
Ethiopian resident among six recognized for strengthening life-saving health services and building community health infrastructure
FAKE EVERYTHING
Modern governments invariably lie and intentionally mislead their citizens at the various junctions of modernity’s tightly organized existence! In fact, many of the policies of governments that are implemented on a daily basis are borne of lies. Without blatant lies, camouflaged as progress, development, nationalism, patriotism, internationalism, blah, blah, politicos running the global show, always via the instrument of governments, wouldn’t have been able to have monopolistic hold on state power! If truth be told, many of the foundations of modern societies are fake, ill-conceived and unsustainable. Yet and thanks to deeply entrenched lies prevailing in all societies, myriad unsustainabilities keep marching on!
When human societies or nations-states, to be more precise, try to build their reality on the conception of ‘infinite growth on a finite planet, it is obvious they are preaching a dangerously ‘fake narrative’. When states pronounce the rate of climate change to be according to their whims rather than the unpredictable imperatives of natural laws, it is clear governments are teaching ‘fake science’. When productive and sustainable works are demoted while phony money, which is created out of thin air and on a continuous basis, tramples hard work, it is obvious humanity is wallowing in a swamp of ‘fake economics’. Currently, even the once humbling hard sciences are made to bow down to the shallow interests of bureaucrats and their handlers, so that taxpayers’ money is swindled/diverted to benefit ‘deep state’ operators! The gullible sheeple (human mass) systemically indoctrinated to accept almost everything that is spewed out by the deep state, is made to be part of the problem rather than part of the solution!
In the realm of the sciences, such fantastic fictions as intergalactic travel, or the colonization of planets that lie several light years away, (a light year is 9.46 x 1012 km) have become part and parcel of the ongoing ‘fake narratives’ regarding the cosmos. Let us illustrate some easy ‘facts’, obtained from our ever-changing knowledge. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, has an average width of about 100,000 light years, i.e., a distance of 946,000,000,000,000,000 km. Let us say we can miraculously come up with a technology that can propel us a billion km per hour, that is 1,000,000,000 km per hour. To bring it down to earth, this is like going around our planet 25,000 times an hour! With this mighty speed it takes us over 100,000 years just to escape the confines our own average size galaxy. We can only say ‘go figure’, just like the perplexed teenager! The delicate creature that came about unknowingly, certainly outside of its flimsy perception and conception, has convinced itself to be potentially capable of travelling billions of kilometers per day into the outer space where there are plenty of unknowns, radiation, etc. (think Van Allen radiation belt) to inhabit or colonize, (to use the sickening word of the establishment) entities that can support what we know as life! Human’s fragility, always demands the continuous supply of oxygen in order to breathe, water to drink, food to eat, etc. This is not an organism that is built for space travel, despite the insinuation of the deep state, via its propaganda machines that includes the movie industry, perforce!
We can hardly maintain life on the planet that was given to us on a silver platter, let alone think of roaming around the mighty cosmos as if it were some kind of Disney land! Like it or not, indoctrinating rather than enlightening is the core ideology of the so-called modern nation-states. If their sheeple becomes enlightened then realistic questions will be raised as to why we are leading such a decisively suicidal existence, here on our rare blue planet! At this point we believe, one has to realize the evil-minded amongst us. There are a whole lot of people who are not interested in the continuation of life after them. In the lingua of modern psychiatry, they are called sociopaths/psychopaths. All they are interested in is temporal gratifications that always come with costly attendant consequences. Take the case of nuclear energy. There is no doubt there is a very real risk associated with all sorts of nuclear power. This is a proven fact, however much the ‘deep state’ tries to hide this reality. Yet the peddlers of nuclear power plants/arsenals still want to push nuclear power based technologies, as if they were very safe and almost risk free. As a result, everybody and his uncle (Middle East, Africa, etc.) think it is a worthwhile project to pursue!
The burning issue then becomes, how to change our fake narratives? For a start, independence from the so-called indoctrination machines is a must. Unfortunately, this includes distancing the global citizenry away from the so-called institutions of ‘enlightenment’. They have become quite toxic, at least as they are constituted today! Secondly, one has to recognize the Main Stream Media (MSM) is at best noxious, if not deadly poisonous, particularly when it comes to reflective and critical thinking. Look at the tragedy-comedy-the case of the wealthy pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Not long ago, he was revered as a successful ‘billionaire’, even though nobody knew how he actually made his money. The mainstream media has stopped questioning the very processes of acquiring wealth, so long as the person in question is a stooge of the deep state, just like the numerous cases of criminal accumulation in our part of the world. It is only when things start to get hot, the dubious characters in question attract some attention, good or bad!
For better or worse, humanity survived because it had to do what it had to do, mostly by critically and continuously examining its evolved reality within the broader realm of the natural environment. The human animal did not ‘ascend’, so to speak, again for better or worse, not by the state of quackery and fakery! Yet, when it comes to the world of politicos and their affairs, the mantra still remains; “When it gets serious, you have to lie” Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission. Good Day!
Ethiopia calls Sudan, Egypt to nominate dam operators for data exchange
Ethiopia invites Sudan and Egypt to nominate dam operators for data exchange before the filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in the coming rainy seasons on the aim of confidence-building measures among the three countries on the project.
Ethiopia frequently expressed its desire that it wants partnership and cooperation on mutual benefit under a principle of win-win manner for the development of Abay (Nile) River. Regarding the hydroelectric, it had also indicated that it would not have significant harm on the downstream countries that was also proofed by experts of the three countries.
In its latest statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) indicated that Seleshi Bekele, Minister of Water, Irrigation, and Energy of Ethiopia, formally invited Sudan and Egypt to nominate dam operators to exchange data before the second filling of the GERD which is set to commence in the upcoming rainy seasons in Ethiopia.
In the letters addressed to Minister of Water Affairs of Sudan and Egypt, the Minister of Water Affairs, Ethiopia invited the two countries to nominate focal persons or dam operators to exchange data among the three countries with regards to the second-year filling which will take place in July and August 2021.
“According to the letters, the invitation was based on the consensus that was reached on the filling schedule formulated by the National Independent Scientific Research Group (NISRG) of the three countries along with the period of the filling in July and August and it may continue in September depending on the hydrology,” the statement of Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained.
It added that stating the progress of the GERD construction and the approaching rainy seasons in Ethiopia, where the filling is scheduled, the Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy of Ethiopia underlined the need to work together on practical and important communication arrangements.
MoFA on its statement indicated that nominating focal persons soon will expedite appropriate information exchange arrangements and confidence-building measures among the tripartite until the conclusion of the GERD negotiation under the auspices of the African Union, the letters read.
The letter underlined the importance of immediate conclusion of agreement on the rules and guidelines on first filling in accordance with article 5, a of the Declaration of Principle (DoP) that was signed by the three countries in 2015 which will offer a good opportunity to build confidence and trust among the parties.
New commodity entrance to spike productivity
The adding of a new commodity to the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) in its trading floor is expected to boost the production of beans and the corresponding market.
The electronic trading platform announced that it is going to start the trading of yellow unspeckled beans, which is the third for the budget year alone for exclusive trading at ECX.
In the past couple of years the trend has shown that when new commodities start trading at the modern trading scheme, the production, value, quality or export starts to climb.
Netsanet Tesfaye, Public Relation Head at ECX, said the experience indicated that when products started trading at ECX the harvest, quality and price increased. He reminded that the soybean and mung beans production have shown price spike since they joined the electronic trading floor.
When mung beans started under exclusive trading at ECX the production was mainly concentrated at the central part of the country, but it went on to immediately spread in other parts of the country mainly at the north western and western part of the country.
“In the 2016/17 harvest season, the production of soybean was 812, 000 quintal which has now boosted to 1.3 million quintals in past year. Starting the trading of the industrial bean at ECX is one of the major factors for the production increment,” Netsanet stated illustrating the figures on the soybean sector, which is now mainly traded for local agro processing industries with competitive price that benefited the farmers.
Latest information indicated that the production of soybean has surpassed two million quintal.
“Now local edible oil pressers are giving better price for the farmer than export value for soybean farmers, which encourages the producers to come up with high yield and better quality,” he added.
“Definitely, the production and value of yellow unspeckled beans, which is the family of pinto beans, will increase,” he told Capital.
The exchange stated on Thursday April 8, that it has already received 1,000 quintal of yellow unspeckled beans via its Bule Horra branch, which is a recently opened facility with a warehouse holding capacity of 150,000 quintal. Netsanet said that the product will also be coming at the warehouse of ECX at Wolayta Sodo.
ECX indicated that more stock will be added in the coming days. Due to that it called traders to be ready for the trading that will be commenced in the near future.
The yellow unspeckled bean is one of the most accepted pulses in the global market, mainly in South East Asia. So far it is mainly produced in the southern and south western parts of Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s pinto beans export volume in the 2018/19 budget year was 2,981 metric tons which has since then expanded to 7,801 metric tons in the 2019/20 export year.
Netsanet said that there are seven beans under the pinto beans family that includes black unspeckled beans and creamy unspeckled beans.
He added that mostly the beans are produced in southern part of the country of which the warehouses at Bule Hora, Wolayta Sodo and Hawassa mainly receive the product. He said that the products have demand at the export market. The beans production has increased from time to time since it has received attention by Ethiopian Institute of Agriculture Research.
Ethiopian pinto beans export main destination include; India, Pakistan, Kenya and Tanzania.
ECX that manages the trading of over 700,000 metric tons of commodities every year is trading about 13 products. Recently, it added the trading of red speckled beans/pinto beans and white pigeon pea.
