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When Sense of Owner-ship is Reflected in Sacrifices of Lives! ››PAGE 14

Omo Kuraz Sugar Develop-ment Project Satisfacto-rily Responding to Native Pastoralists Demand for Development ››PAGE 10

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EFDR PRIME MINISTER PAYS VISIT TO TENDAHO SUGAR FACTORY & WOLKAYIT SUGAR DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

A team of government higher officials led by EFDR Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegne has paid a visit to Tendaho Sugar Factory as well as Wolkayit Sugar Development Project.

The prime minister and his entourage, following their visit on Tendaho Sugar Factory on January 25, 2015 were briefed about the progress of the construction of the factory. The premier, after the briefing, stated that the factory which was

PUBLIC AND STAKEHOLDERS DISCUSSION HELD CONCERNING

OMO-KURAZ NO. 3 SUGAR FACTORY

Discussion is held with the stakeholders and the public regarding the construction of Factory No.3 of Omo-Kuraz Sugar Development Project, its sugarcane cultivation land preparation and the various

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VISION ፡ Ensuring sustainable growth, become one of the ten competitive sugar producing countries of the world in 2023

TENDAHO AND KESSEM SUGAR FACTORIES MAKING

PASTORALISTS BENEFICIARIES

Tendaho and Kessem Sugar Factories, the constructions of which have reached at their final stages, are benefitting Afar pastoralists living around.

The factories are creating job opportunities as well as situations to the pastoralists around in which, organized in associations, they will benefit themselves cultivating and supplying sugarcane to the factories, it was disclosed when leaderships of the corporation and stakeholders have recently visited the factories.

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expected to resume production as of the second quarter of this Ethiopian budget year is way back from the schedule set due to various reasons. Curving, step by step, the problems the construction had encountered, the factory have now reached at a stage where it can enter into production with its full capacity, he further noted.

The construction of the factory at Afar Regional State mainly helps the pastoralists around to be gathered at villages whereby they get services of various social institutions as well as benefit themselves working as out growers of sugarcane, the premier added. Creating wide job opportunities to citizens, the factory enables pastoralists become beneficiaries of the opportunity. Moreover, this opportunity also paves ways to them to supply different

commodities to employees of the factory and thereby build up trade at the area, the Prime Minister further stated.

Satisfying its own power demand by producing 120 Mega Watt of electric power from its by-product, the factory will also play as a source of power to development activities carried out at the areas around, he noted. The factory will benefit pastoralists in many ways enabling them carry out modern cattle fattening works as well as prepare cattle feeds taking advantage of using by-products of sugar as inputs, the Prime Minister said.

When both new sugar development projects, including Tendaho Sugar Factory, enter into regular production, they will make the nation benefit a great deal from

the sector, he furthermore added.

Likewise, a team of government higher officials led by EFDR Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegne has also paid a visit to Wolkayit Sugar Development Project and the May-Day Dam construction in Tigray Regional State on February 22, 2015.The premier and his accompanying senior government officials have also been briefed on the project’s activities and the progress of the construction of the dam.

When completed, the May-Day Dam, which has a capacity of holding 3,497,000,000 meter cube water, is the source of water supply to 50 thousand hectares of cane cultivation field to be developed at Wolkayit Sugar Development Project.

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activities which will make the communities living on the borders of Benchi-Maji and Keffa Zonal Administrations the foremost beneficiaries.

Representing the President of South Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State Negatu Dansa, Head of Pastoralists Bureau of the region was present on the discussion forum held at Mizan- Aman Town of Benchi-Maji Zone. On the occasion, Negatu recalled the consecutive discussions held with the pastoralists around and the concerning bodies of various levels prior to the commencement of the construction job of Omo-Kuraz No.1 Sugar Factory in which consensus was , by then, reached at by all.

The Bureau has made pastoralists of Boddi nationalities of Selamago Woreda of South Omo Zone live in villages and thereby become beneficiaries of social institutions, he further disclosed. Recalling attitudes of uncertainties which had been reflected at the start of the villagization process, he went on saying “many others have now become beneficiaries of the villagization program taking a lesson from those pastoralists who earlier have joined the villages constructed and got benefits in various ways”.

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Organized in unions, many members of Boddi Nationality living in three villages are now working as out grower of sugarcane taking ownership of the land at which the project has already cultivated sugarcane. The pastoralists are now taking care of their sugarcane cultivation land while they are waiting for the

document that certifies their land ownership, Negatu added.Furthermore, the pastoralists have now reaped Maize for a third round on the irrigable land which was made accessible to them by the project while they are now planting seedlings for the fourth round, he noted.

Damene Darotta , Public Organization Division Deputy

Director General of Sugar Corporation on his part disclosed the Corporation’s mission which is, giving due attention to sugar and co-products and contribute its own part in the nation’s economy, making the communities living around its sugar development project areas the primary beneficiaries of the development effort.

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Tendaho Sugar Factory, in addition to creating job opportunities to many others in various fields, has recruited 125 youths of the pastoralists after it has made them get trainings on machines and tractor operating skills.

Furthermore, organized in 20 associations and getting job opportunities in the construction and industrial parts of the factory, the youth many in number have become beneficiaries.

The factory, giving both long and short term trainings, has created provisional as well as regular job opportunities

to more than 5 thousand pastoralists in various fields of work.

Likewise, kessem Sugar Factory has created job opportunities to 220 youths of the surrounding pastoralists, it was disclosed. Organized in 14 associations, others are now working in various fields of work of the factory.

Both factories are executing various activities so that the pastoralists around shall enhance their participation and benefit themselves working as out growers of sugarcane, it was disclosed during the visit.

Organized in six associations, more than one thousand pastoralists are cultivating sugarcane at 4,022 hectares of land at Tendaho Sugar Factory. Similarly, owning one hectare of land each, 750 pastoralists organized in eleven associations at Kessem Sugar Factory are taking care of the cane cultivated land handed over to them by the project. In the future, various activities, which will benefit the pastoralists around more, will be carried out in the factories, heads of the factories disclosed during the visit.

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SECTOR STARTS CULTIVATING FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

In a bid to exploit the huge potentials of sugar factories and sugar development projects of the nation for cultivation of fruits and vegetables and therefore benefit from the sector, various activities are being carried out. Accordingly, Sugar Corporation has set a work unit called “Co-Products and Agro-processing Division” in its all structures and thereby run the sector with full responsibility.

Cultivating fruit at the range of 200 to 300 hectares of land of each new sugar development projects’ command area based on a thorough feasibility study and then carrying out the job taking into consideration the public around and hence prepare the product at a factory level is the logic behind in setting the division.

Cultivating crops, vegetables, fruits as well as nurturing cattle vis-à-vis the sugar development job are the major duty of the division. The division is currently giving professional assistance to Metehara Sugar Factory and Kessem Sugar Development Project which are cultivating fruits at 200 hectares of land.

The main products incorporated in the

fruit development work are Mango and Orange. And, activities are being carried out to make these products first available to the benefit of the communities living around sugar factories and sugar development projects and thereby supply the surrounding market.

Site selection and canal design works are being carried out by Water Works Design and Supervision Bureau of Amhara Regional State to cultivate Mango at 50 hectares of land at Beles Sugar Development Project. The Mango seedlings are being prepared by the Bureau.

Likewise, to cultivate Mango at 35 hectares of land, Kuraz Sugar Development Project is currently searching for seedling preparation station around the project site. Moreover, seedling preparation work, to cultivate Mango at 25 hectares, is being carried out at Fincha Sugar factory.

With regard to cultivation of Orange, supplied from its 0.5 hectares of seedling station, 16,000 seedlings, out of 45,000 Acetic of Orange trunks planted, have grown-up successfully at Metehara Sugar Factory.



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WORKS OF NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURES SET UP CLOSER TO COMPLETION

Works of network infrastructures set up to bound up Head Office of Sugar Corporation with Wonji Shewa, Metehara, Fincha and Tendaho Sugar Factories are closer to completion, Corporate IT Directorate has disclosed.

The directorate has stated that, preparing the network project, it has been working with GCS, a domestic company, starting a year before at a cost of over 55 Million Birr to bound up the four sugar factories and their Liaison offices here in the capital as well as Beles and Wolkayit Sugar Development Projects with Head Office of Sugar Corporation with network including the Research & Training Division of the Corporation at Wonji and

thereby deliver fast service.

According to the directorate, currently the network infrastructure set up work is at its final stage. Preparations are also underway to start the same job in other sugar development projects, the directorate has also mentioned.

Preparations are being carried out to apply the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Application Software following the work of network infrastructure set up, it was learnt. The directorate is now striving to create situations and train IT professionals of factories and projects in advanced IT training programs.



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CORPORATION OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES IMPLEMENTATION OF BALANCED SCORE CARD (BSC)

“BSC has tremendous role in upgrading the change practices previously started to a greater scale” Shiferaw Jarso

Sugar Corporation officially launches implementation of Balanced Score Card (BSC) on March 9, 2015 in a ceremony held at Ghion Hotel.

Announcing the official launching of the implementation of Balanced Score Card (BSC) in its all structures, Sugar Corporation Director General with the rank of Minister, Shiferaw Jarso stated that Balanced Score Card has tremendous role in upgrading the change practices previously started at the sugar development sector to a greater scale.

Signing the document of Balanced Score Card with heads of divisions, sugar factories and sugar development projects under the Corporation, Shiferaw discloses that the Corporation, through implementing the change tool with devotion, will realize the vision of our country of becoming one among the ten sugar producing countries of the world in 2023.

Deputy Director General of Corporate Kaizen & Change Management Division of the Corporation Mengisteab Gebrekidan on his part

stated that, in a bid to create strategic leaderships and staffs and go forward with the results already registered, over 6,892 leaderships and employees of the head office as well as sugar factories and projects have taken trainings as of the first quarter of the current Ethiopian budget year.

Disclosing the preparation of the Corporation’s mission, vision, strategic goals and measures which are pillars in implementing the Balanced Score Card, Mengisteab further went on saying “as creating awareness to



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implementers, cascading the plan and preparing score card in all of its structures are finalized, all work units of the Corporation have entered into the implementation phase of the tool signing the score cards prepared at all levels”.

On the occasion, Tafese Aseffa, Director of Change Management Directorate of the Corporation has presented the process of score card preparation levels of the Corporation. Leaderships and employees who have played significant role in the preparation of the Corporation’s Balanced Score Card Document have received certificates from the Director General of the Corporation.

MICRO & SMALL ENTERPRISES WITH OVER

ONE MILLION BIRR CAPITAL AWARDED

Organized in various associations, micro and small enterprises which are working in Omo-Kuraz Sugar Development Project and have registered over one million Birr capital are awarded.

158 associations organized in micro & small enterprises with 780 members have become beneficiaries of the opportunity of working at the project while they are at the same time creating job opportunities to many others. And, among these associations those which have registered over one million Birr capital are awarded.

On the occasion, Public Organization Division Deputy Director General Damene Darotta, while handing over the awards, said that making citizens the foremost beneficiaries in the sugar and co-products development sector is the major goal of the government.

Special focus will be given to make these associations with satisfactory results to become more successful, he further added.

Asres Adarro, Deputy General Manager of Public Organization, Compensation and Rehabilitation Division of kuraz Sugar Development Project on his part stated that there are many youths who have been able to have their own capital due to the job opportunities created in the project.

It is necessary to the youth to learn from these successful associations that it is possible to do away with poverty as long as they give full respect to whatever job they come across, Asres further noted.

The project will give the necessary support to the youth who are organized in associations and are willing to come and work at the project, it was stated.

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MEMBERS OF ABDI BORU SUGARCANE OUT GROWERS ASSOCIATION GET 50 TO 240 THOUSAND BIRR AT

INDIVIDUAL LEVEL

Members of Abdi Boru Sugarcane Out growers Association who are in total 64 and are supplying it to Wonji Shoa Sugar Factory get from 50 to 240 thousand Birr at individual level from the five million Birr surplus the association has earned.

The association which is one among many sugarcane out growers associations and is working at Eastern Arsi Zone of Dierra Town of Dodotta District is found cultivating sugarcane making use of modern technologies which enhance its productivity.

According to the member farmers of the association, they become beneficiaries of the development endeavor due to the government’s strategy that privileges farmers. And, those who have registered remarkable result and get much better out of the allotment of the surplus the association has registered disclose that the work they have outstandingly

performed has enabled them to transform to developmental investors. They also forward their message to others to follow their path and become fruitful.

Currently, thirty four sugarcane out growers associations with 7,633 members working with Wonji Shoa Sugar Factory are benefiting from the income they are earning supplying sugarcane to the factory. The associations distribute the surplus to their members every eighteen months on average.

Preparing irrigated land, creating opportunity to best seed access and giving technical as well as professional assistance to farmers, the factory has created conducive environment to out grower farmers so that they benefit from the sugarcane they cultivate and supply to the factory.

7,000 out of the total 12,800 hectares sugarcane cultivated land supplied to the factory are being cultured by the sugarcane out grower associations of the surrounding area.



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CORPORATION, SUGAR FACTORIES AND PROJECTS CELEBRATE WORLD WOMEN’S DAY

World Women’s Day is celebrated at head office of Sugar Corporation, sugar factories and sugar development projects in various events with a slogan - “Empowering Women is Empowering the Community”.

The day was celebrated at the head office of the Corporation on March 14, 2015. During the occasion discussions were held on papers presented under the titles:- Results Registered in Empowering Women and Issues of Concern; Objectives, Tasks and Major Accomplishments of The Gender Directorate of Sugar Corporation and also Laws Ratified to Ensure Women

Equality and Their Outcome.

On the other hand, a five kilo meters run with the motto – “Priority To Women” that made Atlas Hotel its starting and destination point, was held on March 15, 2015 in which 160 women employees of head office of the Corporation and Liaison Offices of Wonji Shewa, Metehara, Fincha and Tendaho suagr factories have participated.

World Women’s day is celebrated for 39th time at national level while it is its 104th at international level.



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OMO KURAZ SUGAR DEVELOPMENT PROJECT SATISFACTORILY RESPONDING TO NATIVE PASTORALISTS

DEMAND FOR DEVELOPMENT

Pastoralists living in and around Omo River have been leading their lives wondering from place to place in search of grazing land and water for their cattle. As they are found in remote areas of the nation, they knew neither social services nor infrastructures prior to the inception of Kuraz Sugar Development Project. But now their demand for development is getting satisfactory response from both the federal and regional governments of the nation.

It was through the villagization program that pastoralists gathered for the first tome at three villages of Arebijo area had started getting social services few years back when the Omo Kuraz Sugar Develoment Project was kicked off at Selamago District of South Omo Zone. And, witnessing the fruits of the sugar development project, pastoralists of same zone together with

those at Keffa and Bench-Maji zones have started requesting both the regional and federal governments of the nation to foster the activities of the Omo Kuraz Sugar Development Project and reach where are around and thereby they too become beneficiaries of social services and infrastructures as their fellow pastoralists at Selamago. Hence, responding to the demand of pastoralists, the project together with the regional and federal government have made social services and infrastructures available to pastoralists living at Gurra and Maki villages at which they started living together through the villagization program they had joined voluntarily. Furthermore, construction of social services at a village called Haillowa One is at its final stage while contractual agreements are signed with the constructing institutions so that they could start

building similar service giving institutions at Haillowa Two village too.

As these all pastoralists were not acquainted with farming earlier , the project , giving training on how to till a land and harvest crops , has made available irrigable plot of land upon their request so that they can run farming business along with their cattle rearing job. And, it was pastoralists who have first started living at three villages of Arebijo that started farming and are now harvesting for a third round. At this village 2,400 hectares of irrigable land is made available to native pastoralists while efforts are underway to others gathered at Gurra, Maki and Haillowa villages.

Besides these the project, working hand in glove with the regional and federal government, is making irrigable land, social services and infrastructures available to those gathered at villages very far from the

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command area of the project.

On the other hand, pastoralists are benefitting a great from the market link created due to the constructed roads and other infrastructures which have helped them sell their herds with much better price as never before.

The Omo Kuraz native pastoralists have not only became beneficiaries of the above opportunities but also got job opportunities at

the project itself and those participating institutions of the project’s various activities.

Ollilu Charnielay is a native from Murssi nationality. He had went through a tractor machines operating training program at Chancho Tractor Training Center in 2013 and is now working as a regular employee of sugarcane plantation division of the project. His role in the division is land leveling and furrowing of cane cultivation field of the project using

tractor machines. Asked to share about his opinion of the project, he said “I am very happy of working at this sector which is believed to contribute a great deal in doing away with the poverty our nation is leveled for”. Ollilu had no any idea about tractor machines before his training.

The other tractor operator employee of the project who shared his view about the project is Kassahun Metachew. He is from Dimmie

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nationality. Going through the same training program as Ollilu, Kassahun is working at the cane cultivation division of the project and is eager to see the sugar factory under construction producing sugar.

Metachew Deneke is from the Dimmie nationality and is now working as a director of an elementary school built at Gurra village. He speaks the language of Boddis’ fluently. According to him currently there are 43 students enrolled among them 18 are children while 15 are aged. And, what surprises him more is the enthusiasm the latter are showing for learning. The school is providing exercise books and pencils to students besides feeding their lunch. “We also have special incentive to female students; we provide them with a liter of edible oil every month as long as they attend the school with no interruption”, Metachew went on saying.

Gatapai Zoggi is from Boddi nationality and we found her while she was getting the service of the flour mill constructed at Tikawoch Village of Gurra and asked her to share her reflections on her new way life. She and the villagers at Tikawoch have started getting services from potable water, flour mill, school and clinics of both human and cattle stations constructed at their village. “As I am attending the school regularly, I am now-a-days getting a liter of edible oil every month besides the lunch service during school days”.

These pastoralists living around the Omo Kuraz Sugar Development Project had paid a visit to Wonji Shewa Sugar Factory last year where farmers around it used have a long history of working with the sugar mill as sugarcane out growers. And, following their visit natives of the Omo Kuraz Sugar Development

Project have time and again been requesting the project to let them work as out growers of sugarcane like those farmers around Wonji Shewa Sugar Factory. The project accordingly has allotted 1,072 hectares of irrigable land to 1,430 pastoralists each acquiring one hectares of land upon which they are to grow sugarcane on 0.75 hectares and other crops on the rest 0.25 hectares. These pastoralists will get professional assistance from the project including fertilizers and pesticides supply.

Till now more than 36,000 citizens have got job opportunities in the project itself and the participant companies of the project. And, 158 associations have become beneficiaries by taking part in the construction and service giving jobs. Moreover, both the regional and federal governments of

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the nation are working their level best in paving ways so that native pastoralists will step by step go up the ladders of various positions in the project. And, currently 30 native pastoralists are working in the project as irrigation experts after going through the training program at Arbaminch University while many in number are now working at different positions of the project.

Hence, as never before pastoralists around Omo Kuraz Sugar Development Project need

no one tell them what is best to their future unless he/she would dare want to run his/her obscured agenda.

Omo Kuraz Sugar Development Project command area encircles some woredas of South Omo, Keffa and Bench-Maji Zones and is one among other projects Ethiopia has identified as a very promising one for the sector and it will in the end have 175,000 hectares of land for its cane cultivation. Five sugar factories will be built here three with 12,000 TCD and the rest two with 24,000 TCD.

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When Sense of Ownership isReflected in Sacrifices of Lives!

Mankind is the only unique creature on our planet in mak-ing his environment suitable to his day to day lives. Since his very existence he has never stopped this effort for a frac-tion of a second. The rough en-vironment he had lived in for centuries has now remarkably transformed due to his day-in and day-out relentless effort.

The technological advancement mankind has achieved so far is one among others that enabled him lead a more and more com-fortable and easy life. The very modern infrastructures and various social institutions to-gether with the transformation of his cultural practices have also made his life by far easier.

On the other hand, there are many other descendants of mankind at many corners of the planet especially in most of

the developing countries who are still denied of these privi-leges. The various nationalities living around the Omo-kuraz Sugar Development Project of Ethiopia are here worth men-tioning. It is with the inception of the project that its inhabit-ants started to get access to potable water, health stations, schools and some infrastruc-tures though Ethiopian govern-ment recognizes that a lot has to be done to halt their margin-alization hereafter.

A recent incident of fire acci-dent at Fincha Sugar Factory is a great lesson to those parties who are objecting the activities of the Omo-Kuraz Sugar De-velopment Project. A number of employees and the commu-nities around have given their lives while recently protecting the Factory, which has started operation in 1998, from the fire

accident it had encountered on March 14, 2015. It is the com-munities around the factory and its employees who, as the foremost beneficiaries from the mill, have given their valu-able lives with no hesitation in controlling the accident which would otherwise have been devastating and led the factory to its total closure.

Thanks to those who paid their lives or sustain light and severe physical injuries as well as the Government of Oromiya Re-gional State, Fire & Emergency Prevention & Rescue Author-ity of Addis Ababa, Sur Con-struction and the members of Federal Police of the area that the mill has already begun its usual operation after three or four days interruption for very minor maintenance. One died on the spot & two while they were getting treatment

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at Bethel Hospital here in the capital, Addis Ababa. There are nine others in this hospital while few were at the factory’s hospital for minor medical treatment.

A coupel of decades before the inhabitants around Fincha Sugar Factory, like that of the communities around the Omo Kuraz Sugar Development Project, were also leading their lives devoid of infrastructures and social service institutions though it was much better than the situations natives around Omo River are in. They had no health stations, potable water, schools, electricity etc. around as the area was so detached from the main road-route that stretches from the capital to Nekemt-Gimbi Town.

It is therefore, after the establish-ment of Finacha Sugar Factory that the communities around started getting the above men-tioned privileges at their door-steps. Now-a-days there are many scholars all over the na-tion and abroad who were born there for the establishment of the factory has brought schools and other social services with it. Excluding almost eleven and half thousand employees of the factory, there are about 40 thou-sand beneficiary people in vari-ous ways including job oppor-tunities which were only made possible due to the factory.

Likewise, over 1,750 pasto-ralists of Afar Regional State, where the two newly built factories closer to their com-pletion– Tendaho and Kessem Sugar Factories, are working as out grower of sugar cane

owning irrigable cane cultivat-ed land. More than 345 youth members of these pastoralists are also found recruited by the factories passing through vari-ous short as well as long term skill development training pro-grams at this very early stage of these projects. Over 5,000 pas-toralists around Tendaho Sugar Factory have also got direct as well as indirect job opportuni-ties.

Same is true with the various natives living around the Omo Kuraz Sugar Development Project at this very early stage of the project. Following their, especially Boddi Natives’ visit to Wonji Shewa Sugar Factory where now seven thousand hectares of land is being cul-tivated with cane by the com-munities living around, the Boddis have requested to have the same privilege. And, as per their request, each getting ir-rigable cane cultivated land from the project, they are now taking care of it as out grow-ers. Many members of Boddi, Murssi and other nationalities are now working as employ-ees of the project while many youths of these natives, getting short term technical skills de-

velopment training programs at various institutions of the country, are now found work-ing as regular employees of the project & also of participating sub-contractors.

Moreover, these natives, as never before, are now getting access to various social service institutions built by the project/government joining the villagi-zation programs voluntarily.

Time is not too far for the na-tives around Omo River to start leading a better life. The area will in the very near future be changed into an industrial cor-ridor due to the sugar factories which are now at their primary construction stages. As they have already started reaping the fruits of the project, the natives have started to realize what will help them to do away with their much backward way of life mankind had led thou-sands or more centuries be-fore. And, as the triumphant heroes who recently protect Fincha Sugar Factory from the alarming incident it had faced, they too, in a very near future, would also give their lives to protect the factories which are now under construction.

Director General of Sugar Corporation Consulting Medical Staffs Regarding the Injured

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