In Ethiopia’s Omo Valley the indigenous peoples of the valley, the Bodi, Mursi, and Kwegu (Muguji) are going to face the threat of hunger because of a dam that is being built at the eastern end of the Omo River. The Ethiopian government is making an Italian company build a dam that will restrict the river’s flow to the lower Omo Valley, threatening the livelihoods of the Kwegu, Bodi and Mursi. This is a problem that affects everybody in the valley. There are many implications to this problem in the valley, the first one is not enough publicity in the United States and the second implication is that if the dam is built hunger will occur in the region. In order to solve this problem of hunger in the Omo Valley, we need to educate the native tribes in the valley about what is happening around them.
The Ethiopian government will resist any effort to try to help the local tribes because they want what is best for the country not what is best for the people in the Omo Valley part of the country. Right now according the United Nations, 1 in every 8 people are hungry world wide and in the Omo Valley hunger is a constant threat because the people their rely on fishing from the river and seasonal flooding to deposit silt in order for the tribes to grow their crops. Public backlash will begin in the U.S. whether it is in our best interest as a nation to give these people a helping hand. There will be a loss of money to try to get the marketing campaign going in order to get this issue in the books.
With one million dollars at my disposal, I will face scrutiny and resistance from those who will disagree with the issue I am trying to solve. In order to see how to solve this problem and the further implications that will come with it, I need...
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...ta analysts that I would have hired already as a part of phase two of the project. With this project, education should increase, employment should increase and the overall happiness of the people should increase. The knowledge that the children would learn should increase as well and the ability for them to use technology should increase along with technology in the school.
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