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Dear  “Ye Jimma Lidjoch”

&

Friends of Jimma!

 

Your home town and place of identity, Jimma greets you and wants to address her problems to her children -

to YOU!

 

As we all know, Jimma in today’s Ethiopia is one of the least developed and deteriorated town, even a joke was made on Jimma saying “when a town deteriorates, it looks like Jimma”, “ketema siyarej Jimman yimeslal”.

It is in deed sad and heart breaking to hear this while we know and knew that Jimma was one of the richest/harmonious/beautiful and fast developing towns of Ethiopia. Jimma was the fourth (when Eritrea was part of Ethiopia) best towns of Ethiopia.

What happened to Jimma? What went wrong?

Can we unite and rebuild our beloved town?

Can we bring a change?

Can we bring back the Jimma we knew once?

YES, we can!

 

Recently, two meetings/gatherings of "Ye Jimma Lidjoch" and friends of Jimma have taken place at the Ras Hotel in Addis Ababa. The objectives of both meetings were to call upon "Ye Jimma Lidjoch" and friends of Jimma in Addis Ababa and elsewhere in the country (even globally) and create understanding of the current retarded development and deterioration of Jimma and to join our hearts, our hands, our money and our talent to re-establish Jimma, which once has been the center/paradise of Ethiopia!

 

“Jimma the town of beauty”,

“Jimma ye Webet ketema”,

“Jimma the town of Love”,

“Jimma Ye Fikir Ketema”.

 

The meetings: It was declared on the first meeting (April 13, 2008) that the city of Jimma administrative council and the municipality will organize a 10-12 days celebration on the occasion of the 178 years birthday of Jimma from 24 May – 4 June 2008. It was initiated believing that to create attention on Jimma's development parallel with the national millennium celebration. Therefore, the first meeting was concluded by electing a committee of 9 persons here in Addis, as coordinating (the 178 years birthday) committee. This committee which is a member of the larger committee of Jimma city was given an assignment to call for another larger gathering of Ye Jimma Lidjoch and friends of Jimma in Addis Ababa.

 

In April 26, 2008, the committee called/organized the 2nd meeting at Ras Hotel with over 500 attendees, the meeting was very harmonious lots of sentimental speeches on Jimma made by both senior/elderly/religious and junior citizens of Jimma and friends of Jimma. The messages were:

 

 We all LOVE Jimma!”,

“We are one people!”

“Jimma is our identity!”,

“We will help Jimma”

 

At this meeting the deputy president of Oromiya Region, the Chief Administrator of Jimma Zone, and the Mayor of Jimma city were present and all the three made speeches to the audience and have not only indicated the preparedness of the government to lay out favorable conditions for investment for development in all spheres of socio-economic activities; But they also have invited all "Ye Jimma Lidjoch" and friends of Jimma to associate themselves and practically involve in the development of Jimma and the surrounding by contributing their resources as well as by inviting all those  concerned to integrate themselves in the betterment of Jimma. Action items were identified and one of them is to create understanding on Jimma's current deteriorated situation among Ye Jimma Lidjoch abroad and call for help in which ever way they can. And more importantly, to invite ALL "ye Jimma Lidjoch" an friends of Jimma to participate on the 12 days long celebration in Jimma which will end up in a huge (nationally broadcasted) fund-raising gala evening in Jimma, which will be attended by high ranked Ethiopian government, foreign government representatives and very well known members of the social, religious, business, academic, etc communities.

 

A call for HELP!

 

Jimma calls you, her child to help her come out from her difficult situation she is in now. She loves you and trusts you that you will not let her go down.

If you wish to make financial support:

 

Account Jimma development;

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia,  

Jimma Branch in favor of Jimma Town Administration,

Asphalt Road Construction Project

Account No. 32/82

 

 

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