By ertra team
In continuation of the ongoing
effort to identify and address the issues that are causing some of our young
Eritreans to fail in the area of education and good citizenship in general,
a second meeting was conducted by Eritrean parents residing in Seattle. The
meeting took place on Sunday, October 22nd and was attended by
many Eritrean parents and representatives of the National Union of Eritrean
Youth & Students.
The objective of the meeting
was to further discuss and consolidate the various initiatives and ideas that
were discussed in the first meeting. After a brief discussion, the participants
agreed to establish an interim committee to lead the activities. The current
volunteer leaders, reinforced with new members, were given a mandate to lead
the activities until an official association can be formed. In addition, a
taskforce was established with the mandate to disseminate information in order
to raise awareness amongst Eritreans regarding the prevailing situation.
The participants reinforced
the need to inform more Eritrean parents to join the association and decided
to find ways to encourage the participation of more Eritrean mothers in the
future. To that end, the taskforce
is expected to identify various means of information dissemination (like radio,
public TV, Internet and magazine) to reach most members of our community.
If you want to be informed
about the activities and plans of the movement, please send your name, phone #
and e-mail address to webmaster@ertra.com
and you will be added to the newsgroup established for this purpose.
Let’s join hands and devote
our effort for this noble initiative to unite Eritreans in Seattle. We owe that
to our kids!!