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Eritrea Profile 14 July 2021 Vol 28. No.25 Wedensday, 14 July, 2021 Pages 8, Price 2.00 NFA PRESIDENT ISAIAS AFWERKI ENCOURAGES NATIONAL OLYMPICS TEAM President Isaias Afwerki international competitions both received and encouraged the in number and quality. Eritrean National Olympics Team that is due to participate at the Ambassador Zemede Tekle, 2020 Tokyo Olympics that will Commissioner of Culture and be held from 23 July to 8 August. Sports, said that Eritrea will participate in the Tokyo Olympics At the occasion held on 12 in three sports competitions July at Adi-Halo, President Isaias including athletics, cycling and said that Eritrea has encouraging swimming and is fielding 13 participation in international athletes including five females. competitions and wished success to the National Team. Ambassador Zemede also said that the encouragement President Isaias also said that made by President Isaias will more effort will be made towards have significant input in the the development of sports and performance of the athletes in the to enable Eritrean athletes competition. participate in as many ELECTIONS OF AREA ADMINISTRATORS AND MANAGING DIRECTORS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS Elections of area administrators and managing directors was conducted in 8 administrative areas of Mogolo sub-zone. The objective of the elections that was conducted in the administrative areas of Abrom, Daga, Habreda, AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Areda, Sheglet, Kiferenko, Ad-Merig and Mogolo was to replace the outgoing area administrators and managing directors as well as to provide timely and efficient administrative service to the public. GRADUATES 792 STUDENTS The newly elected area administrators and managing directors on their part expressed conviction to live up to the expectations of the people that elected them. ERITREAN COMMUNITY FESTIVAL IN ITALY The annual Eritrean Community challenging time due COVID-19 Meanwhile, Eritrean nationals Festival in Italy was conducted pandemic, and wished good will to in Kuwait conducted seminar on on 10 July in the city of Bologna the coming festivals of nationals in 9 July to discuss on the objective in accordance with the guidelines other parts of Europe. situation in the homeland. to control the spread of COVID- 19 pandemic. Indicating that Eritrean Speaking at the occasion, the Community Festivals are opportune Charge d’Affairs at the Eritrean According to the report from the forums in which nationals Embassy in Kuwait, Mr. Humed office of Public and Community strengthen attachment with their Yahya said that encouraging Affairs, the festival was attended homeland, Mr. Fisehatsion Petros, progress is being registered in the by representatives of 16 cities in Eritrean Ambassador to Italy, effort to ensure social justice and Italy while a number of nationals expressed appreciation to those called for strengthened participation followed the event through the who organized the occasion. in the implementation of the Adi-Keih College of Business and Social Science conferred on 10 July social media. national development programs. Degrees and Diplomas to 792 students, of which 46% are females. The festival was highlighted In a video message he conveyed, with messages of solidarity, Commending the contribution In its 14th Commencement held in virtual format, the College Mr. Yemane Gebreab, head of documentary films, and recitation the nationals are extending, Mr. conferred 1st Degrees to 295 and Diplomas to 497 graduates in fields of Political Affairs of the PFDJ, of the past experiences of the Humed called on nationals in Economics, Business Management, Accounting, Finance, Law, Political congratulated the nationals who Bologna festivals as well as Kuwait to strengthen organizational Science and International Relations, the Humanities, Journalism, and organized the festival in this entertainment programs. capacity and unity. other disciplines. Speaking at the ceremony, Dr. Estifanos Hailemariam, Dean of the College said that the college is conducting capacity level contribution in the nation-building endeavor by producing competent and well- educated students. He went on to say that in a bid to empower its human resources, the College has already sent 10 of its staff members to various countries for a doctoral and 12 for Master’s program. Eight more instructors will be sent for a doctoral program in the near future while 9 others for Master’s Degree, Dr. Estifanos Hailemariam added. The College of Business and Social Science has graduated over 10 thousand students since 2008. Eritrea Profile, Wedensday, 14 July, 2021 Vol 28. No.25 2 FT Dairy Products and Promising Prospects Mussie Efriem 1991 after 14 years in combat, faced big challenges. They neighborhood. Initially, Mrs. went by, she got better and Mrs. Freweini Tesfayohannes, bought six cows, but only one Freweini would make deliveries better in cattle breeding and milk At a farm in Daeropaulos, a former freedom fighter, and was lactating and it died after on a bike, however, as production production. Over the course of Central Region, Mrs. Freweini time, she attended both short- is using her over 27 years’ worth and long-term trainings on of knowledge to empower young farming, food (milk) processing girls. The going has not always and other professions relevant to been easy, yet she has built a her business in Eritrea and abroad reputable brand in Eritrea. in Kenya, China and the USA. At the same time, she represented her Dairy farming is an enterprising business in several conventions business in Eritrea today, in part under the umbrella of African due to a substantial demand for Women Agribusiness Network milk and its associated products. (AWAN). A major breakthrough Starting off in Elabered, Halhale for the business was realized and Adi Seguedo as a preserve of when the Ministry of Agriculture Italian farmers during the colonial gave support and linkages. period, the business has grown to become a major source of income In 2006, the plant was officially for many Eritreans. For nearly recognized as a milk producing twenty years, FT Dairy, a family and processing plant. At that business, has been producing time, the company stopped traditionally spiced and smoked selling milk and begun producing butter and velvety cheese cream, milk alterations for the market. best known by its Italian name As there was no mechanization panna. at the time, most of the work a nurse by profession, then a short while. They also faced increased, Lazza Farm Products was then done manually using Returning home in Asmara in in her early thirties, founded opposition from the community. started selling the milk to Asmara traditional methods for many of the company. She turned her In 1996, the couple started the Dairy Factory. the products. In the process, the backyard and kitchen space of project as a cottage industry at In 2002, Freweini made more National Animal and Plant Health the house she’d rented then, into the courtyard in their house. investments. At the time, she Laboratory, under the Ministry the seedlings that gave life to FT of Agriculture, kept monitoring Dairy Products. At the time, her regular safety control tests to co-parent Mr. Temesghen Tekie ensure the quality of FT milk was away on a national campaign products was upheld. In 2012, to eradicate blindness caused Lazza Farm Products, underwent by cataract. In 1992, following major changes introducing small Published Every the birth of their first child, the scale machineries. The plant was Published Every demand for a daily supply of milk expanded on a 500-meter piece of SaturdayPublished & Wednesday Every Wednesday & Saturday for the baby took a toll on them. land detached from the farmland. SaturdayPublished & Wednesday Every This saw them buy one cow to The transition was overseen by Published Every supplement the domestic supply the Ministry of Agriculture and SaturdayPublished & Wednesday Every of milk, while selling the rest to PUM. WednesdayActing &Editor Saturday boost their meagre. SaturdayActing & WednesdayEditor Acting Editor Since that time, FT has grown Amanuel Mesfun Amanuel Mesfun Their enthusiasm turned substantially. Starting with 350 [email protected] Editor their kitchen into a laboratory liters of milk a day from their Acting Editor [email protected] Mesfun where Mrs. Freweini learned Amanuel Mesfun and practiced milk alterations. [email protected]: 247 Her husband, Mr. Temesghen, a However, their courtyard was purchased Holstein cows from [email protected]: 247 Pharmacist by profession, was not big enough to accommodate Elabered Dairy Farm. As time Continued on page 7 Tel: 11-41-14 P.O.Box: 247 always a big helping hand as many animals. A year later, Mrs. Fax:P.O.Box: 12-77-49 247 his knowledge on science and Freweini applied and enrolled Tel: 11-41-14 E-mail: chemistry assisted his wife’s in the Demobilization Program, Fax:E-mail: 12-77-49 curiosity in understanding milk which was aimed at assisting [email protected] [email protected]@E-mail: zena.gov.er and the science in milk products. freedom fighters in their new Advertisement:profile@[email protected] zena.gov.er 12-50-13 They read, studied, and practiced ventures. Under the program, [email protected]: 12-50-13 hard. Their limited knowledge Mrs. Freweini quit her nursing Advertisement: 12-50-13 in agriculture did not deter them profession and was assisted to Layout from thinking big. Mrs. Freweini start a mini dairy farm. Layout figured out that they could do AzmeraLayout Berhane better than they had been with With a loaned initial capital, AAzmerazmera BerhaneBerhane AAzmerazmeraSara BerhaneAlemBerhane only one cow and proposed Freweini built up their first AidaSaraSara JoharAlem breeding cattle as a business cattle cottage in Adi Seguedo. AidaSara JoharAlem idea to her husband, an idea he As the business picked, the supported. couple was able to pay off the At the beginning, the couple loans while selling milk in the Eritrea Profile, Wedensday, 14 July, 2021 Vol 28.
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