Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam (African Globe)
AFRICANGLOBE – Engineer Simegnew Bekele, Project Manager of the GERD, told reporters on Saturday that the project is progressing well in all its activities.
All the activities on the project “are progressing healthily in order to realize the project.
“We are mobilizing all the people, nations and nationalities of Ethiopia, including the Ethiopian Diaspora,” said Simegnew.
Ethiopia is now harnessing its potential for renewable energy to fight against poverty and improve the lives and livelihoods of its people, said Simegnew.
“This is a green energy; and this supports other renewable energy; and Ethiopia is the power hub; we have tremendous natural resources.
“So, we are now exploiting; we are now harnessing this potential to improve lives and livelihoods of individuals,” he noted.
“This is our primary agenda, number one agenda for our country; this is a project which is equipping us to fight poverty, our common enemy.
“The government has devised a strategy to improve the lives and livelihoods of individuals, the citizens.”And we have already started developing such kind of infrastructures that allow us to fight poverty,” he said.
He said, “On Nov. 28, 2014 we already booked world record with a daily average of 16,949 m3 roller compacted concrete.
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