Headline Sep1,2012/

"IF YOU WANT HONOUR - 

MAKE YOUR OWN!"

In the near future Sam Museum of History will come through. See the global students Role of Honour! The great thing about being on !WOW! - The World Students Society of Computers-Internet-Wireless, is that you can sort out all your life's important problems and concerns long long before you enter practical life. You can make your own contribution to content. You can pick your own causes. Seek your own advise! Make your own choices! And I am saying the least! And best of all, you hardly ever have to lift a finger, apart, of course the ones you use to visit SDT.

Professor Sachs narrative continues : we identified an area northern Ethiopia, Tigray province. It's a beautiful, remote community of several thousand people, in a valley that has tens of thousand of people. Again, we met the community and found enormous enthusiasm and enormous organisation - people who want to take their futures in their own hands but just need a little bit of help to do it. They know about fertilizer, they know about improved seeds, they know about malaria bed nets, they know about cell phones, they know about Trucks. They know they don't have any of these things. ut they would like to have the chance. They are saying, Help us a bit and we can get out of this. In fact, that's what we find all over the developing world.

The poor countries are saying to the Rich countries: Look we know that you have an income hundred times bigger than we have. We are starving and you have more than enough to eat. You have everything you could ask for, and we have absolutely zero. We are not calling for Revolution; we are not out to dismantle the world. We just want to have a chance to find a way over a long period of time to have some of he things that you have. In Tigray Province , their crop is a mix of teff, which is the staple grain of Ethiopia; sorghum, which is a dry season grain; a little bit of finer millet, which is anohter dry season grain; and maize , which is pretty much grown all over Africa.Tree crops, papayas and mangoes, can grow in this kind of environment if there is a little it of drip irrigation. And they provide market opportunities and wonderful nutrition.

So we started them with nurseries and improved seeds. A local scientist, a wonderful young Ethiopian, was selected by the local Government to head the project for us and get the community together. They built  these remarkable check dams called, gabions, which are just the ways to preserve these mountain side villages from the short onslaught of floods and channel the water away from the crops so that the water running down the mountains doesn't create gulleys and destroy the land. Simple steps, low cost steps, all attuned to the area's specific needs, led by the community, done by the community, but with a helping hand! Professor Sachs, Blessed Work, Sir!

Good night and God bless.

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