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Ethiopian Global Initiative

EGI has partnered with Africans in Boston and the National Center of Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) to promote Ethiopian culture, communication, and history in the United States NCAAA's Director, Edmund Barry Gaither, sits on EGI's International Board of Advisors.

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After watching the December 2004 Oprah Winfrey Show program on fistula in Ethiopia and the work of Dr. Catherine Hamlin, then-8th grade student, Samuel Gebru, who was 13-years-old at the time, was motivated to organize youth and raise funds for the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital.

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