Above: Gashaw Tahir traveled back to Ethiopia several years
ago and was shocked at the massive deforestation there.
HuffingtonPost.com
Posted: 03-20-10 05:39 PM
Ethiopian-born American citizen Gashaw Tahir traveled back to his homeland several years ago and was shocked at the massive deforestation that had taken place since his departure.
Rivers have dried, mountains have been deforested, and rising temperatures due to climate change are making plant life more difficult to maintain. Tahir decided that something had to be done. His story is told in a new video from America.gov.
Watch:
This is really an amazing work, which every Ethiopian should replicate. Really this is great.
Gashaw, you are just like Gash Abera Molla! Please continue your work so others may follow your way.
With kind regards,
Tse Tsu
Great job Gashaw. This is exactly what Ethiopia needs these days!
God bless you. We need to unite in this cause, if everyone plants 1 tree each, I am sure Ethiopia will be like amazon forest.
THANK YOU BROTHER GASHAW.
I am very much impressed by your work. Please keep it up.
Such a blessing to have you back at home and it is a wonderful work you are doing. Keep it up because you are showing us a new way for progress.
This is a very encouraging documentary but on the other hand there had been a lot of people like this man who were told to stop what they were doing by the same government that gave a go ahead to Mr.Gashaw;for eg Mr.Obang Meto. Obang went with the same dream digging water-wail for the thirsty, plant seeds trees and what not but he was not only discouraged, a good number of Anuak’s were asked to leave their own birth place that lead to a massacering of over 300 hundred people.
The spirit of this man is very necessary and encouraging.
I am proud of you. I would like to learn more so I can also get involved.
Thank-you
I agree with the above comment by Yared. Ethiopia has many problems of commission and willful omission – but in this case, in this man’s softly weathered hands springs forth a verdant future of sureties. That abundant woodland of common stewardship rising from hardscrabble ham-fisted plunder. That peaceful woodland of purposeful enterprise in lieu of pathological exploitative ascension. That widely burgeoning woodland of nature’s gentle persuasion crowding out and overgrowing the bereft and desolate wasteland of dogmatic rapacious certitude. But his labour is not to be political it is to be custodial and for that Ato. Gashaw Tahir: I wish you God’s blessings and our peoples support. Thank you.
Cool!
Great work, You inspired me and millions. this is what I consider being a patriotic Ethiopian.
Begudu
Really It is great!!!!!!
What a wonderful work U are doing/ please bezihu ketilibet ESHEE.