March 10,
2014, After several years of having
separate event for International woman’s day
, the National Union of Eritrean
Woman (ሃማደኤ) Seattle branch and the Greater
Seattle Eritrean Association (ማሕበረ ኮም) have resolved their differences and
celebrated the International Women’s Day (March 8) jointly at ማሕበረ ኮም with a
stunning success!
The exciting
program started appropriately with a solemn remembrance to our fallen hero
Major General Gerezghier Andemariam (Wuchu)! Two messages of intent and
solidarity with each other were read by two beautiful ladies – Ms. Workinesh
Debas, representing the ማሕበረ ኮም and Ms. Azieb Asfaha President of ሃማደኤ Seattle
branch. Ms. Samrawit Michael, the chairwoman of the National Union of Eritrean Woman - North
America, who flew in from Washington, DC for the special occasion, took the
podium, in which she expressed her appreciation for all the people and
organization who had made the event a smashing success and pledged to support
and work with the subject organizations. This was followed by Mr. Dawit Haile Organizational
and Youth affairs officer Embassy of Eritrea - Washington, DC who expressed his
satisfaction and admiration of the effort that was put forth in the
reconciliation process and encouraged the audience to follow through with what
was an excellent beginning.
Then it was
some of our youngsters especially member of the YPFDJ/PFDJ ll - Seattle Chapter
who have worked so hard to make sure that the events was success, reading
various poetry including one in the Kunama language. Naturally the young poets
had March 8 and its significance to women in general and the Eritrean women in
particular in mind. They narrated how wonderful and very special their mothers
and sisters were considering the hardship they had to bear during the
liberation struggle while caring for their family members. Yes, poem after poem
were a depiction of recognizing of the Eritrean ተጋዳሊት and the cultural and biological
hurdles that she had to overcome to assert her own right through participation
in just about every field her male counterpart did, including in the battle
field. The contents of the poems, especially coming out from the young kids was
gratifying and makes one feel very proud of his/her Eritreanism!
The opening
musical rendition in the Bilen language was heaven made match for the
youngsters that were displaying their dancing skills on the stage for which the
audience went wild in cheering and applauding the little angels on earth. In
fact the beat and the music were so enticing that a couple of the mothers
joined the dancing spree to the delight of the audience, who responded with a
resounding applause.
While the
musical show and dancing, which was conducted by our Tefono Aklilu, Musie Teame , Dawit Kidan and Almaz
Tesfy was going on strong, but that
would not be good enough without some Eritrean delight that came in the form of
a variety of Eritrean vegetarian dishes appropriate for (ግዜ ጾም) and healthy
choice as well as some meat dishes for the young and young at heart. Oh my! The
food was “finger licking” yummy! Our thanks go to those (ዋሓለታት) mothers
and sisters who had prepared such delicious food. “ክብረት ይሃበልና”!
United We
Stand” was the motto of this important Holiday and we were not disappointed!pictorial report will follow thank you
Medhane
Sebhatu
ETERNAL GLORY TO THE ERITREAN MARTYRS WHO SACRIFICED THEIR PRECIOUS LIVES FOR US ALL TO BE PROUD ERITREANS.