Mar 14, 2020
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My latest article for @politicalite: https://www.politicalite.com/latest/foreign-aid-scam-exposed-mps-launch-inquiry-in-to-overseas-aid/ #Yegna #makebritaingreatagain🇬🇧 https://www.instagram.com/p/B9srMuIge-S/?igshid=1pi0rjli88ftn
#TBT 6 years ago #julianamontgomeryisabadass Ethiopia #Yegna #ABET #Orsonwhales Nothing could possibly compare to this experience! 🙌🎬 https://www.instagram.com/p/BvpsuO6BeXV4Wc6SGTUCtrBRtaZWZi_ygz5Ibk0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=198minjkk7ior
Yegna - Endeswa
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8DnfuUTD_k) “When I went up on stage, I realized nothing should scare us.”
“Yegna, The Sound of All of Us”
Yegna is a group of 5 amazingly talented Ethiopian girls. Who are out to help empower and boost the spirits of girls all across Ethiopia. Through making music videos to hosting and broadcasting their own radio show for girls of all ages. Their goals is not only to help educate girls but to also form a sense of community and togetherness. These girls are such an amazing influence and have so much great potential.
To help support Yegna, you can click here to see their SoundCloud and click here to see all of their hard work and progress.
Yegna: Ethiopia’s Sound of Change
The Ethiopian girl band, Yegna, is more than just five cute teens with a catchy hook. These ambitious young ladies are challenging their whole community to acknowledge women in a new way.
According to Upworthy, they’re a pop music group, a talk show, and are featured in a popular radio drama. The huge teen-brand reaches 5 million listeners in their country, and focuses on motivating young women to think differently about themselves and their identity.+
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MEET YEGNA, THE ALL-GIRL BAND THAT'S CHANGING ETHIOPIA
We absolutely love black girls on a mission. That’s why we’re so excited about this Ethiopian music group.
“This week Upworthy introduced us to Yegna, a girl band everyone should get to know and support. These five young women have set out to change many of the issues Ethiopian women face through their music. Yegna, which means "ours" in Amharic, understands that in order to better their country they must empower girls.
Girls living in Ethiopia deal with a variety of obstacles to living a happy and healthy life: Two out of three women in Ethiopia believe wife beating is justified, two out of five say they don’t have friends, and one out of three can’t read and don’t go to school.
The members of Yegna—Teref Kassahun (Melat, 26), Lemlem Haile Michael (Mimi, 26), Zebiba Girma (Emuye, 22), Eyerusalem Kelemework (Sara, 27) and Rahel Getu (Lemlem, 22)—want to change all of that. They have put together a girl band, radio drama, and talk show to provide encouragement and education on self-care by using real-life scenarios. Yegna understands that girls are one of Ethiopia’s greatest untapped resources. By empowering as many girls as they can through their words and music, they want to improve their audience’s economic and social outlook.
The only requirement to attend Yegna’s debut concert was to be a girl and to bring a girl, the Guardian reports. During the concert teenage girls sat in the VIP section typically reserved for government officials as the crowd sang along to the bands single "Abet": "We are here, we will not be silenced."
The concert was arranged by The Girl Effect’s Girl Hub, a foundation working within Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Nigeria to empower girls. Helen Kirdir, a member of the concert promotion team expressed the need for groups and concerts like this. "When I explained to people that this was a celebration of Ethiopian girls they loved it, because there is nothing for girls here.”
Yegna’s unique approach and commitment to improving the lives of young women of color is definitely something to sing about.”
Read the full piece here
Even though they were an hour late, more than half my girls attended our last program. That's a success in my book #thispeacecorpslife #yegna #girlsrule #betterbyhalf