Initiating dialogue
on society's human right
and the prospect of minority groups
Action Professional Association for the People (APAP) is a local non-partisan and non governmental organization established in 1993 with an aim to provide legal and professional services to the poor, women and children. Lately, the organization formulated a new approach, which is currently being put into practice that focuses on economic, social, and structural rights with particular emphasis on the right to housing, health, education and food.
Recently, on Thursday November 2, 2006, the organization in collaboration with Tame Sol Communications inaugurated a new edutainment drama at the Hilton Addis. Ato Debebe H/Giorgis, APAP Managing Director, told Capital that the main purpose of edutainment drama is to disseminate information and understanding of legal concepts and rights of various members of the society.
The 20 minutes Yebet Serategnawa Tarik drama issues the rights of home maids underlining most of the maids in the country come across mistreatment. Most home maids in Ethiopia don't have a fixed working hours, which they are deprived of having their own social life, like contacting and spending time with friends and beyond that sexual harassment that has been ignored to date due to society's downgrading attitude.
Ato Debebe told Capital that his organization is planning to support the program on a continuous basis if the same support exists from the electronic media. For the moment, the organization selected Ethiopian Television to present a weekly forum that is devised to initiate discussions among the spectators to achieve a better remedy for such issues.
Such an organization like APAP could benefit a minority group like ours that is disregarded in the community for traditional beliefs. The professionals can come up with a presentation stressing a need for the ratification of laws to secure rights of 'ignored members' of the society and they will try to do so by inducing the community through dialogue.
Certainly to some extent, the progression necessitates the active involvement of the minorities. We must be able to approach organizations like APAP to assist us on alleviating our problems. It's with cooperating with such organization that we can achieve our dreams. We have to overcome our fear of emergence, which is playing a greater role in hampering us from moving ahead. For how long are we going to detain ourselves with the excuse of fear? We can't afford other phenomenon, 'fear' in excess of prejudice.
Our community has waited long enough and apparently very little it gained from. It's time where we are provided opportunities than ever before and for us to use them prudently to create awareness that homosexuality exists in the community. But once more, the bigger question underlies, are we ready to get involved? Or, at least, are we trying our utmost to get involved?
on society's human right
and the prospect of minority groups
Action Professional Association for the People (APAP) is a local non-partisan and non governmental organization established in 1993 with an aim to provide legal and professional services to the poor, women and children. Lately, the organization formulated a new approach, which is currently being put into practice that focuses on economic, social, and structural rights with particular emphasis on the right to housing, health, education and food.
Recently, on Thursday November 2, 2006, the organization in collaboration with Tame Sol Communications inaugurated a new edutainment drama at the Hilton Addis. Ato Debebe H/Giorgis, APAP Managing Director, told Capital that the main purpose of edutainment drama is to disseminate information and understanding of legal concepts and rights of various members of the society.
The 20 minutes Yebet Serategnawa Tarik drama issues the rights of home maids underlining most of the maids in the country come across mistreatment. Most home maids in Ethiopia don't have a fixed working hours, which they are deprived of having their own social life, like contacting and spending time with friends and beyond that sexual harassment that has been ignored to date due to society's downgrading attitude.
Ato Debebe told Capital that his organization is planning to support the program on a continuous basis if the same support exists from the electronic media. For the moment, the organization selected Ethiopian Television to present a weekly forum that is devised to initiate discussions among the spectators to achieve a better remedy for such issues.
Such an organization like APAP could benefit a minority group like ours that is disregarded in the community for traditional beliefs. The professionals can come up with a presentation stressing a need for the ratification of laws to secure rights of 'ignored members' of the society and they will try to do so by inducing the community through dialogue.
Certainly to some extent, the progression necessitates the active involvement of the minorities. We must be able to approach organizations like APAP to assist us on alleviating our problems. It's with cooperating with such organization that we can achieve our dreams. We have to overcome our fear of emergence, which is playing a greater role in hampering us from moving ahead. For how long are we going to detain ourselves with the excuse of fear? We can't afford other phenomenon, 'fear' in excess of prejudice.
Our community has waited long enough and apparently very little it gained from. It's time where we are provided opportunities than ever before and for us to use them prudently to create awareness that homosexuality exists in the community. But once more, the bigger question underlies, are we ready to get involved? Or, at least, are we trying our utmost to get involved?
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