My name is Teffera TESFAYE,50years old,father of five children , Ethiopian ,lived in Addis Abeba ,I work in my own digital video production studio (ACOUSTIC STUDIO is the name of my studio). We produce music clips ,documentaries, TV advertisement... Four months before , I got the opportunity to go to Harer more than five hundred km from Addis Abeba , where I used to live twenty years ago. I found and very surprised about one thing which is not changed ,that was plights women are still using stones,teeth and hands to decorticate ground nut . Most of plight women who lived in HARER-ETHIOPIA are ground-nut decorticator , They used a very back-ward method of decorticating .Their income is $0.50/72 hours. Because of this , their product out- put is very low (it takes them 3 days to finished decorticating 20 kg of peanut), their income per day is not sufficient for living , more-over , they spend the whole day by decorticating ,they have no time to be engaged in other social activities . Considering the above problems I began my first step by being a volunteer in a local C B O DERASH they are giving me an approval paper to find some one who can purchase and send them a Universal nut sheller mold which cost US$700 + SHIPPING and that mold is made at APPROPEDIA . I am volunteer who try all my best to ameliorate those women lives ,I don't get salary from any N G O ,I use my own internet access and pay monthly the coast fee +or- US$ 100 FOR ETHIOPIAN TELECOMMUNICATION INTERNET SERVICE , it was so easy to me to purchase the Universal nut sheller but in my country it is impossible to send money abroad rather than importers ,I wrote on more than 12 free website pages and upload video on YouTube - Strugglers & Survivalists WOMEN 1.mp4. That is my real story briefly,I will continue till my last respiration TO DO GOOD by participating voluntarily in any combat vs POVERTY . Teffera Tesfaye
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