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Various Activities by National in Diaspora Eritreans in the United States National Development Drive Vol. 27 No. 2 Saturday, March 7, 2020 Pages 8, Price 2.00 NFA SEMINAR ON OBJECTIVE SITUATION AND FUTURE PROGRAMS are among programs for 2020, the administration, construction of and the public for reinforced organizers of the seminar said that infrastructure and residential houses, participation and contribution in the persistent effort will be made to boosting production and productivity implementation of the programs for strengthen organizational capacity as well as easing the living situation 2020. and awareness-raising activities. of nationals. The participants on their part raised Regarding development programs, The organizers also gave extensive various issues including construction the organizers indicated that briefing on the progress of the and building materials, potable ensuring economic development, peace and cooperation agreement water shortage, medicines and other social justice, provision of basic between Eritrea and Ethiopia and services, human trafficking, reviving Seminars on the objective situation stability, ensuring and preserving social and cultural service and the opportunities that have been industries, as well as program in in the homeland including the security, strengthening unity and ultimately improving the livelihoods created and called for common hand for strengthening media and opportunities and challenges of the understanding on the internal and cultural activities, among others. programs for 2020 were conducted external challenges and the regional by senior PFDJ officials in various and global development in order to Similar seminars will be organized cities in the country. come out victorious. in the coming days in Keren, They also called on all institutions Mendefera, Assab and Barentu. The seminars that focused on economic, political, cultural, security as well as diplomatic activities and others were conducted on 4 March in Massawa by Mr. Hagos Gebrehiwet, Head of PFDJ Economic Affairs, and on March 5 by foreign Minister Osman Saleh and Mr. Yemane Gebreab, Head of PFDJ Political harmony of citizens, preserving the of citizens are the main objectives Affairs, in Asmara to government noble societal and revolutionary of the programs of 2020 and that and PFDJ officials as well as Army values, as well as strengthening substantial investment will be made Commanders. innovation and productivity of on human resource development, Noting that peace, political citizens, especially of the youth nurturing work discipline and INTERNATIONAL Women’S DAY VARIOUS ACTIVITIES BY NATIONAL IN DIASPORA Eritreans in the United States national development drive. In the same vein, the Eritrean organizational capacity of SEMINAR and Republic of South Sudan Embassy in the Republic the youth and other national carried out various activities aimed At the occasion, Mr. Birhane of South Sudan organized a associations and called for The National Union of at strengthening organizational Gebrehiwet commended the meeting to nationals in Juba reinforced participation in the Eritrean Women branch in capacity and participation in the resilience demonstrated by aimed at strengthening unity and successful implementation of the Central region organized national development programs. nationals in foiling external awareness of nationals. national development programs. a seminar to women from conspiracies against their all the sub-zones, line According to report, various homeland. At the meeting, Mr. Fuad The participants on their part ministries and other public national associations in Bay Mohammed, Head of Public expressed conviction to work institutions, in connection Area, California, conducted their The participants also contributed and Community Affairs at the for strengthening organizational with March 8, International annual meeting on 29 February in 13,400 US dollars for Sheib solar Eritrean Embassy, gave briefing capacity, unity and awareness of Women’s Day under the Auckland. system project. on the effort made to strengthen nationals. theme “Objective Situation in Eritrea and the Role of At the meeting in which Mr. Women”. Birhane Gebrehiwet, Charge d’Affairs at the Eritrean Embassy Emphasizing the meaning in the United States, and Ms. of International Women’s Hadinet Keleta, head of Public Day and the message Relations, took part, the National it conveys, Ms. Alem Union of Eritrean Women and Belai called on women to YPFDJ organizations conducted strengthen organizational activity assessment meeting of capacity and take advantage 2019 and mapped out programs of the opportunities being for 2020. created in this era of peace and cooperation. Noting that in the past 20 years the national associations At the seminar women have conducted commendable activities, the participants expressed readiness to double continued on page 5 effort in this new era for the successful implementation of the Eritrea Profile, Saturday, March 7, 2020 Vol. 27 No. 2 2 Efforts on Waste Managment Milka Teklom may be tiny little compared human health and environmental with the industrialized and degradation. The key aims of the Africa is the continent most- newly industrializing countries, conference were to improve the exposed to the adverse effects the government of Eritrea has current solid waste management of climate change despite been making efforts to clean the status in Central region by contributing the least to global environment. detecting the major problems of warming. By the end of 2020, solid waste management starting between 75 and 250 million people As part of the continued from point of generation to the on the continent are projected to efforts, the Ministry of Land, final dumping of the solid waste. be exposed to increased water Water and Environment’s Central stress due to climate change. In region branch has recently held a Mr. Mulubrhan added their office has been doing most of the waste management, including sweeping, collection, transportation and disposing the waste. He said the biggest future expansion potential. electric conduits and buckets. concern was the dumping site The dumping site has recently The Central region has also because the existing dumping been renovated. The waste is now successfully transformed some of sites are not properly selected and being dumped 600 meters north the solid waste into fertilizers. they lack the basic characteristics east away from the road. Roads, of landfills; they are simply walls and fences have been built, The conference ended by open dumps. For this reason, the and trees have been planted to reminding the participants that dumping sites are characterized by make the place attractive and there is so much that is left to bad smell particularly during the reduce the amount of carbon be done on waste management rainy season. Another common dioxide caused by the burning and minimization, and stressing the same year in some countries conference to address the major problem with the dumping sites waste. As part of the efforts to the importance of drafting solid yields from rain-fed agriculture polluting activities by focusing is overfilling. The size of the manage the waste, a recycling waste management guidelines could be reduced by up to 50 on the effect of solid waste on dumping sites and the distance machine has been set to produce soon and raise the awareness of percent. Global warming of 2˚C the environment and the disposal from the city cannot support their synthetic materials such as the mass. would put over 50 percent of the operation cycle continent’s population at risk of of the Central undernourishment. region. Just like the other African M r . countries, although Eritrea’s Mulubrhan contribution to global pollution Gebrehannes, director of the Environment Assessment Division, said that solid waste is one of the major concerns of cities Published Every in the world. As cities expand, Published Every the concern with regard to solid SaturdayPublished & Wednesday Every waste and other environmental NEWS Wednesday & Saturday matters increases. In developing Saturday & Wednesday countries, especially in Africa, collected waste is mainly disposed SUPPORT FOR DISADVANTAGED NATIONALS Acting Editor in open landfills, many of which Acting Editor Amanuel Mesfun are neither properly operated Nationals with hearing and visual impairments residing in the United States have contributed 150 thousand Amanuel Mesfun nor maintained and pose serious Nakfa in support of the National Associations with hearing and visual impairments. [email protected] Mesfun [email protected] threat to public health. In Eritrea, the volume of the solid waste According to the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, the members of the Eritrean Hearing and Visual P.O.Box: 247 generated is increasing mainly due Impairment Association contributed 75 thousand Nakfa to the National Association of the Blind and the remaining P.O.Box: 247 to the growing urban population, 75 thousand to the National Association for the Deaf. Tel: 11-41-14 Fax: 12-77-49 concentration of industries in Fax: 12-77-49 urban areas, consumption patterns VOCATIONAL TRAINING E-mail: of residents and inadequate [email protected]@[email protected] zena.gov.er finances and facilities to manage FOR CITIZENS WITH INTELLECTUAL CHALLENGES waste collection and disposal. Mr. Advertisement: 12-50-13 Vocational training was organized in Assab for about 30 citizens with intellectual challenges. The training included Mulubrhan emphasized that most painting and chip works. of the East African cities are using Layout Layout 20-50 percent
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