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NBI African Diaspora Community E-Bulletin…………Ethiopian Travel & African Investment Info.

January 13, 2011 (Tir 5, 2003 Ethiopian Calendar)

Ethiopian Travel Information from Dr. Desta Meghoo

• We are proud to announce ETHIOTOUR 2011. A new view of an ancient country.

Please join us in Ethiopia in for this amazing tour of a lifetime. Addis Ababa, Axum, Lalibella, Gonder, Bahir Dar, Shashamane and Wondo Ganette are all included in this 14 day introduction to Ethiopia. Workshops on investment in Ethiopia, cultural exchange with local groups, arts and entertainment, spiritual enrichment and much more are a part of this unique tour from a Pan African experience. 

We hope you will join us for this annually offered tour, if not in 2011... see you in 2012. We'll be here waiting to welcome you. 

Please contact USA Tour Manager/Coordinator, Yedidah Yehudah, for more information and reservations at yedidahy@aol.com or ethiotour1@gmail.com.  

One Love,

Dr. Desta Meghoo

Ethiotour 2011 - Ethiopia Coordinator

Part proceeds of the tour help sustain Children's Village Project for homeless, orphaned or otherwise vulnerable youth in Addis Ababa.  

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Investing in Africa by EthiopianInvestor.Com

• Investors Wake Up to Africa

http://www.ethiopiainvestor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1976:investors-wake-up-to-africa&catid=74:top-story

• Profile on Tej Processing

http://www.ethiopiainvestor.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1435&Itemid=

Africa wants her Sons, Daughters and Friends to come home, visit, work and be part of the dynamic economical, developmental, social and political CHALLENGES AND CHANGES sweeping the continent.

Africa has many challenges but has also much opportunity. The question is how we as the LARGER AFRICAN DIASPORA think alike to come together to compete with the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) ?

We at NBI highly recommend a book titled China, Africa and the African Diaspora by one of pride and guide Dr. Sharon T. Freeman, an expert on Africa and China.

Special thanks to Dr. Desta Megho and Ethiopian Investor for sending us these valuable information.

Special Note: Registration by NBI for Ethiopian 2012 Peace, Spiritual Reconciliation, Health, Trade and Development Conference and Tour is under way. For further information, please contact me at: AfricanAndAmericanBusinesses@Gmail.com

Tamiru Degefa on behalf of NBI team members, supporters and people of good spirit, Peace and Spirituality seekers, Abol Coffee Inc., Millennium Arts Salon, NBAS Inc., (Nation Building Advisory Services), US Green Trading House Inc., NBL/GW (National Business League,DC Chapter of The Booker T. Washington) and communities we serve and reach out.

….New Beginning Initiative (NBI), An African Diaspora Initiated New Earth Thinking based on Self and Global Peace, Spiritual Reconciliation and Appropriate Development for our children and children’s children for a Just, Peaceful and Green world….

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NBI African Diaspora E-Bulletin…Wishing you and all your beloved the best of 2011

January 2nd, 2011 (ታህሳስ Tahsas 24rd, 2003)


Today I am ready to face my many challenges, challengers and my critics near and far for my sweet victory tomorrow walking on the widening path of hope love and faith I see ahead. 

"God grant me the serenity to accept things I cannot change, a courage to change things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Have a Happy, Healthy, Prosperous and Peaceful 2011

Tamiru Degefa on behalf of NBI team members, supporters and people of good spirit, Peace and Spirituality seekers, Abol Coffee Inc., Millennium Arts Salon, NBAS Inc., (Nation Building Advisory Services), US Green Trading House Inc., and communities we serve and reach out

….New Beginning Initiative (NBI), An African Diaspora Initiated New Earth Thinking based on Self and Global Peace, Spiritual Reconciliation and Appropriate Development for our children and children’s children for a Just, Peaceful and Green world….

 

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NBI E-African Diaspora Community Bulletin. Re: “A Year of Inspiration” and Giving Back.

December 24, 2010 (ታኅሣሥ*15 , 2003 Ethiopian Calendar) 

2010: A Year of Inspiration

Posted December 21, 2011, 8:47 am in Reinvent Yourself

In years to come, what will be your story from 2010? Even though our country is living through a period of unprecedented financial worry and hardships, there are still stories of hope to be found.

This year, the Growing Bolder team made it our mission to find the people who are still out there, living their dreams and proving that it's not about age, it's about attitude. We know a lot of you are doing your best just to survive these days, so it can sometimes be hard to take a step back and consider if what you ARE doing is what you WANT to be doing.

One of our favorite quotes is by the Cuban-French writer Anais Nin, who once said, "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

As you look forward to how your story will unfold in 2011, we encourage you to take some time and draw inspiration from the following stories. The people featured below are living proof that it may not always be easy to follow your dreams, but you'll never regret it.

Happy holidays!

Source: www.GrowingBolder.com

As I grow younger and tender at heart, seeking self peace and spirituality, librated from my own prison of conditioned mind, freeing myself from the life of Anger, Fear, Hatred, Vengeance and Racism, divorcing myself from my own story, my processions, and negative, critical and non supportive people, learning the wisdom of  reaching out to my “enemies” (which I do not have) and many be some critics and skeptics of my own, and my many friends especially young Africans in the larger Diaspora and back in Africa, Ethiopia in particular and our T.E.A.M members of NBI (New Beginning Initiatives) of women and men of God, Peace, Spirituality, Community and Development, I am growing bolder in my thought chasing my legend by day, by the hour and by the minute and second as I breath.

(T.E.A.M “Together Everyone Achieves More&rdquo

Now I know I am not alone, Growing Bolder I will go forward watching what I watch, what goes in my ears and my mouth and pray over what goes out of my mouth, living in the life of the NOW as my life is ONLY when I breath not in the past nor the future, as the future is to The Almighty God, God of all the seen and unseen the touch and un touch, the smell and the un smell, master of the universe.

Now I know, as President Nelson Mandela said, when I am on top of one hill I will find myself at the bottom of another taller hill next to me, I guess I must continue to climb to be on top of the mountain one day, as Rev. Dr. Marthin Luther King once said in Selma Alabama.

In the spirit of the holiday especially for those of us very concerned as what is happening back home in Ivory Coast and the rest of Africa and the world and here at home, and for those of us who have more than what we do not need for the day be able to support others, I would like to invite you to visit the following two sites inspirational and giving back respectively;

• www.GrowingBolder.Com for any age group
• www.AngelTree.Org for those of us who have received and being supported, this is a chance for us  to give back to support and in the process show the world we Africans know how to give back and support as we have been given and supported to be where we are today.

Happy Holidays & Peaceful World!!!

In the enclosed you will find our previous postings.

Tamiru Degefa on behalf of NBI team members, supporters and people of good spirit, Peace and Spirituality seekers, Abol Coffee Inc., Millennium Arts Salon, NBAS Inc., (Nation Building Advisory Services), Live Afique Magazine and the communities we serve and reach out to connect.

….New Beginning Initiative (NBI), An African Diaspora Initiated New Earth Thinking based on Self and Global Peace, Spiritual Reconciliation and Development for our children and children’s children for a Just,Peacful and Green world….

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NBI  NBI E-African Diaspora Community Bulletin. Ethiopian and Tanzanian coffee, Ethiopian finger food restaurant news and more…

December 16, 2010 (ታኅሣሥ*7 , 2003 Ethiopian Calendar)

Upcoming Coffee Shows, a must attend for those venturing into specialty coffee business and coffee enthusiasts!!!

The 23^rd Annual Specialty Coffee event from April 28-May 1, 2011.

For information, please visit;

www.Scaa.Org*

Coffee Fest Chicago, The 60^th Show from February 18-20^th 2011.

For information please visit;

 www.CoffeeFest.com

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The World’s Most Expensive Coffees

The World Most Expensive Coffees today fetches from $25.00 per pound for Abol Coffee Black Gold to Kopi Lawak Indonesia that sells for $160.00 per pound and, (yes it sells for  $160.00 per pound) and $49.00 per pound for Jamaican Blue Mountain and in between.

One may ask why? I am sure the expert will tell you, it because of quality (from the farm to the pack), branding, and limited supply, marketing and promotion among other factors.

Please Note: If you are an expert in these areas, please help.

To get a glimpse of The World’s Most Expensive Coffees, please visit our website;

                                                          www.AbolCoffeeInc.com

and to learn more about the origin of coffee and Ethiopian coffee tradition, please refer a copy of our cook book titled, The Taste of Ethiopia, ISBN # 0-96546226-6-8 online;   http://www.abolcoffeeinc.com/about.html

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Ethiopian Green Coffee from the Origin of Coffee, Kaffa has arrived!!!

Are you a small roaster or a small store owner looking for Ethiopian Djima Grade #3 sun dried green coffee from the season’s fresh harvest?

The importer is willing to sell to you, this high premium coffee from the birth place of coffee (Kaffa) from a bird friendly coffee farming at a very reasonable price delivered to your door.

If interested, please write to me at: Info@AbolCoffeeInc.com Attention Tamiru.

Serious inquires ONLY!

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“Ethiopian Harar beans and, as of last week, is the only unroasted coffee available at Giant Food”

http://www.gazette.net/stories/12152010/silvnew201852_32540.php

Green Ethiopian coffees are also available at area Ethiopian small stores. Please check for Ethiopian stores in your area.

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         Direct Export of Premium Coffee from Tanzania

http://www.usaid.gov/stories/tanzania/cs_tanzania_coffee.html 

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Passion and Love for coffee, for all those behind coffee from the farm to the cup

“Only those who love our work, and have a talent for it, can survive our training.The coffee you get from us is always, and only, prepared by people who love their work; only people with that strong emotional connection can muster the necessary spirit to struggle for the impeccability that we demand regarding their work making coffee in our coffeehouse. Those who have the spirit for our work still have to demonstrate a talent for it. Only those with talent can truly master the knowledge and skills that underpin the incomparable coffee that we serve everyday in our coffeehouse.

I still maintain total control over every batch we roast, and every drink we serve, by focusing our work at Misha’s in one location. Thanks for your interest in our work.”

http://www.alexandriacitywebsite.com/Misha's%20Coffeehouse%20and%20Coffee%20Roaster.htm

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Ethiopian Coffee Song from Amsterdam

Please view this video of the world renowned Ethiopian artist Minyeshu performing with her Ethiopian Coffee Song, Buna meaning coffee)

http://www.minyeshu.nl

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Ethiopian Vegetarian Finger Food

For those of you in the Washington Tri States or passing through, please stop by a new Ethiopian small carry out/sit in restaurant called Seleme, located @ 3825 H S. George Mason Drive., Falls Church, VA 22041.

Owner /manger’s name is this young beautiful and cheerful Ethiopian girl by the name Helen.

Helen knows me as Gashe and you are most welcome to mention my name.

For those of you in New Jersey or passing through, there is a very nice Ethiopian restaurant owned and run by a Nigerian brother. The name of his restaurant is called Makedas rated as Excellent by New York Times, May 6, 2001.

Web site: http://www.makedas.com

My colleagues and I are very pleased with the quality of service, price, and customer service of these two food establishments.**

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Ethiopian Website, Ethiopian Fair Trade Coffee,  Arts, Travel, Faith, Culture and more….

                                           http://www.horizonethiopia.com

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Serving the community as Merkato, Merkato USA, Abol Coffee and now as NBI and NBAS Inc.,  since 1988.

Thank you for your support and allowing us to serve you with your coffee, tea, Ethiopian coffee ceremony and food catering serviuces and community information needs.

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*Abol Coffee Inc., is an associate member of SCAA

**This is just courtesy information and way of connecting communities. We have no monetary     relationship with these establishment owners. Please also Note that Abol Coffee, Abol coffee Inc., The Taste of Ethiopia and Merkato USA are our registered trademarks.

Tamiru Degefa on behalf Abol team.      

                        www.AbolCoffeeInc.com                                                                                                                 …from the farm to the cup and back to the farm…

Happy Holidays!

Tamiru Degefa on behalf of Abol Coffee team, MAS (Millennium Arts Salon) and NBAS Inc., (Nation Building Advisory Services) and NBI team members, supporters and people of good spirit, Peace and Spirituality seekers

…New Beginning Initiative (NBI), An African Diaspora Initiated New Earth Thinking based on Self and Global Peace, Spiritual Reconciliation and Development for our children and children’s children for a Just, Peaceful and Green world….

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NBI E-African Diaspora Community Bulletin. An Ethiopian Remarkable Rise in America and 

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NBI E-African Diaspora Community Bulletin on Self & Global Peace

December 4, 2010 (ህዳር 25 2003 Ethiopian Calendar) 

• Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, a gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a person. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of solitary individuals whose deeds and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history. As a result, there shines forth fleetingly the ever-threatened truth that each and every person, on the foundation of his or her own sufferings and joys, builds for all.

Albert Camus, The Artist and His Time

• If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands of seeds, and when they look at the bare hills, they may be able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack only the conditions of sun, heat, rain and July. Just because we cannot see them does not mean that they do not exist.

The real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Thich Nhat Hanh

• God has made of one blood all nations under heaven. No man can suddenly become my enemy just because he happened to have been born on the other side of a river or a boundary line, and his government has issued an ultimatum against mine.

Muriel Lester

• My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

• The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

 Happy Holidays!

Tamiru Degefa on behalf of NBI (New Beginnig Initiative), Abol Coffee Inc., NBAS Inc.,(Nation Building Advisory Services) & MAS (Millennium Arts Salon)

      ….New Beginning Initiative (NBI), An African Diaspora Initiated New Earth Thinking based on Self and Global Peace, Spiritual Reconciliation and Development for our children and children’s children for a Just, Peaceful and Green World….