Half a dozen esteemed Yessera Austin activists met at Aster's Restaurant March 6, along with an honored guest...and cooked up advancement on several fronts while eating delicious Ethiopian food.
Highlights of the meeting included new partners, television exposure, and internships. Attendees proposed and decided to explore partnering with other organizations who have technical knowledge and onsite experience that could be helpful in enabling Yessera to provide a larger menu of useful business options to the students and community members in Ethiopia that we are providing support to. Yessera volunteers listed and decided to research at least seven such organizations, ranging from TechnoServe to Engineers Without Borders.
Guest Eva Shaw presented a possible working relationship with the Uganda Community School Project (see nawantale.org), including a possible participation in a television documentary about the realities and adventures of citizen-driven development projects. The assembled group concluded Uganda Community School Project appears to be an excellent partner, and plans to pursue a working relationship. Shaw also proposed the possibility of Yessera providing internships for master's students in social work from the University of Texas at Austin, which is one of only two graduate schools of social work in the United States which provide international internships in social work. Attendees felt that internships in both the US and Ethiopia were viable possibilities, and decided to explore both of them.
Yessera Supports Uganda Community School
