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Congrats goes to NYCOBW member Monica Noel for NYWA 2008 Award . ************************************************************************* Congrats and kudos goes to Janet Collins for being voted "Teacher of the Month" of December 2008 by the School Administration of Science Skills Center High School in Brooklyn, New York. In the past, Ms. Collins was voted Staff Member of the Year by David Ruggles Middle School - IS 258. ************************************************************************* Much Love and congrats goes out to Abaynesh Asrat for her excellence in the work she done in the last 3 years in the USA and in Ethiopia.
In 2003, Abaynesh a Board member of Fistula Foundation galvanized the Ethiopian Diaspora community in the USA to support the construction a new specially hospital in Harrar that will treat the devastating child birth injuries to adolescent mothers who marry early. The hospital opened May 9, 2008.
In 2004, Abaynesh founded Nation to Nation Networking Ltd. (NNN) a not-for -profit Foundation with 501 C-3 status that provides health, education and economic development programs for adolescent girls and their families in urban and rural Ethiopia and other African countries, Asia and Latin America. Its vision is to facilitate access to such services as yearly medical checkup full time schooling basic hygiene, creating a contest in which early marriage for adolescents can be replaced by other social alternatives.
Headquarter in New York, NNN also serves as a "bridge builder" that organizes conferences and cultural exchange venues to promote mutual understanding and appreciation among the diverse people of the USA. Several conferences and dinner receptions have been hosted to benefit Sudan and the New Orleans flood survivors.
in 2007, Abaynesh consulted the schedule for the Abyssinian Baptist church in Harlem, 165 delegates traveled to Ethiopia under the auspices of NNN, to commemorate the 200 anniversary of the church that bears of ancient Ethiopia.
In 2007 NNN adopted a school in Ethiopia with 20 children of unskilled parents and three teachers We provide them with basic learning, breakfast and lunch. with out separating the family. Eleven of this children were transferred to the government school in September 2008.
January 2009 NNN started making sanitary napkins and under garments for the girls who misses 5 to 10 days school for lack of sanitation. This has created job for the unskilled mothers and hope to be expended to mass production and distributor in Ethiopia and other part of African countries so that girl child will go to school 365 days if she wants to and also to restore her dignity while women are working on mass production and earn a decent wage and become financially independent. Abaynesh mentioned that she would like to have the machine that makes modes and more sewing machine to create more jobs for women.
Abaynesh Asrat is President & Founder NNN Ltd. her next plan is to build a total care center for youth. Their web site needs to be upgraded as soon as we get the funding. And Abaynesh mentioned that she has used up her savings to bring these programs to fruition.
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