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About SEED
About usPosted by Society of Established Ethiopians in Diaspora on Sunday, March 13, 2016 |
Society of Ethiopians Established in Diaspora (SEED)
Society of Ethiopians Established in Diaspora (SEED) was incorporated as a Not-for-profit organization October 17, 1993. One of SEED’s objectives is to educate the American and Western public, including the Ethiopians established in Diaspora, that Ethiopia is an ancient country with rich traditions, history with abundant and untapped natural and human resources. Using various educational tools and medium of communication SEED will strive to facilitate the provision of wealth of knowledge that the western world and the Diaspora Ethiopians could use to channel their assistance with a view to pulling Ethiopia out of its chronic dependence on foreign aide for feeding its people. SEED will use various public events and methods to involve a good number of Ethiopians from among the 200,000 established here in the USA, to both serve and benefit from this educational process. |
Our Mission:
To empower the Ethiopian American Diaspora in the areas of academic excellence, professional development, and community service.
To empower the Ethiopian American Diaspora in the areas of academic excellence, professional development, and community service.
In order to achieve its educational objective
SEED has launched the following three program activities:
SEED has launched the following three program activities:
SEED Programs
Annual Dinners for Recognitions and Awards. At the annual dinner every May SEED recognizes and awards individual Ethiopians in Diaspora and from Ethiopia for the productive roles in society, their communities, and families. In addition to Ethiopian professionals the list of awardees include High School, University and College Graduates who have shown outstanding achievements in their classes. This Annual Award Dinners has been held annually since May of 1994. The admission fees to these dinners are determined every year to cover the costs involved in preparing the Annual Dinner. The nominations and selections of the awardees are conducted through regular and electronic mail where thousands of Ethiopians in Diaspora and from the home country participate.
These annual award and recognitions serve as a platform to motivate Ethiopians in Diaspora by encouraging them to strive for excellence and to enable them to be productive model citizens where they are. This activity has created a network of professionals and young Ethiopians that has started bearing fruit in job searches, career consultations, and business creations through partnership.
These annual award and recognitions serve as a platform to motivate Ethiopians in Diaspora by encouraging them to strive for excellence and to enable them to be productive model citizens where they are. This activity has created a network of professionals and young Ethiopians that has started bearing fruit in job searches, career consultations, and business creations through partnership.
The Quarterly Newsletter. A Quarterly publication to enlighten the American and Western community, including the Ethiopians in Diaspora, by providing useful information about Ethiopia. This publication will present Ethiopia’s abundant natural and human resources, economic potential and the reasons for its underdevelopment. It will invite prominent Ethiopians, friends of Ethiopia and experts to provide manuscripts that teach and encourage readers to participate in Ethiopia’s economic, cultural and historic events. The main publication will be issued in a magazine format in May preceding the SEED Annual Dinner. The other three issues will be published as newsletters and distributed in August, November and February.
The Online Interactive Database. Due to SEED’s Annual Dinners conducted without any interruption since 1994, it has accumulated a good number of profiles on Ethiopian-American business, professional individuals and students. The database has been online since October 2003 for all Ethiopian-Americans and the general public to use it. This multi-faceted interactive database has many uses: for posting resumes for jobs, for locating individuals and businesses, and for career and education consultation and planning. The database will also be a repository for various educational tools: Articles on Ethiopian history, geography, and an inventory of mineral resources and teaching materials for learning the major languages of Ethiopia – to name only a few of its uses. It will also serve as a repository for researched works of professional Ethiopians on food security, HIV AIDS, and many other important information that will serve both as educational as well as a very useful information resource for those who contemplate investing in Ethiopia. We also expect to have incidental revenues related to this activity. If the revenue is to come from using the resources of the database the charge will be based on cost.
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