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What does giving and offering mean?

Two weeks left for PROJECT-E’s crowdfunding campaign They are often rather hackneyed, making the eyes of some roll and yet softening the hearts of others: the catchphrases that remind us of what the Christmas season originally stands for. Spending time with friends and family, coming down, doing good, giving back, being generous. Whether Christmas is […]

Ten Reasons to Donate to PROJECT-E

Why should PROJECT-E receive your donations? In the articles on our blog, we have often tried not only to provide you with information about us and our NGO, but also to give you insights into the country of Ethiopia, its traditions, history and people. Today, we take a step back from this: clear the stage […]

10 Inspiring Ethiopian Women

Feminism and women’s empowerment are not limited to women occupying senior positions in business or academia. Inspiring women do not necessarily have to be professionally successful leaders and attract public attention. Nevertheless, finding more and more women at the executive level of economic institutions should be celebrated as a notable achievement. The women we would […]

Tourism in Ethiopia – boom and fall and rise again?

In 2019, an article written by Anne Stellberger reported on the booming Ethiopian tourism and hospitality sector, and the way that PROJECT-E contributes to it by “providing a well-educated and equipped work force” for any one of the PEHI’s 15 partner hotels in Addis Ababa (https://project-e.eu/booming-tourist-sector-addis/). In 2019, the fact that a record 812,000 tourists […]

10 Inspiring Ethiopian Women (Cont.)

Ethiopian radio host Meaza Biru says that she never had a career in radio in mind when she was a child. She never particularly liked being in the spotlight and had little confidence in her talent for writing or speaking. After working in various journalistic contexts for different institutions and after having founded a PR […]

10 Inspiring Ethiopian Women

“Empowered Women Empower Women” is the motto under which the current PROJECT-E fundraising campaign is running. In the past, we have sometimes introduced you to female employees and students of the PROJECT-E Hospitality Institute (PEHI), sharing what being a woman means to them, what inspires them as women and what makes them strong. Now, in […]

Education for Women in Ethiopia

Education is key in the fight against poverty. Education overcomes borders. Education creates equality. Education enables a self-determined life. Or, in PROJECT-E’s words, “Education Empowers”. There are numerous sayings about education and its power, and yet their implementation is by no means easy. All over the world, women and young girls in particular have to fight for their […]

Intersectional Feminism

As the UN puts it, “International days are occasions to educate the public on issues of concern, to mobilize political will and resources to address global problems, and to celebrate and reinforce achievements of humanity” (https://www.un.org/en/observances/womens-day). Hence, the 8th of March is a day to honour womanhood; to celebrate gender–based achievements and, most importantly, to reflect […]

Strategy Weekend 2021

This has been PROJECT-E’s second online Strategy Weekend – the first one took place in August 2020 and was just as successful and motivating. However, due to long screen times, it was demanding and sometimes tiring. For this session, the organizers and PROJECT-E chairwomen Stella Sak and Josefin Weindorf took the feedback from the previous […]

Tigray crisis in Ethiopia

Despite Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed Ali declaring victory on the 28th November, a two-and-a-half month long conflict between Ethiopian government forces and the TPLF (Tigray People’s Liberation Front) is still raging in Tigray, the northernmost region of Ethiopia. The causes of this civil war (or “law enforcement operation”, as the government calls it) are complex and historically rooted. However, tensions […]