Friday, May 2, 2008

ethiopia: part one

i just returned this past tuesday from ethiopia, where i was working as a videographer with charity: water.


charity: water basically does just what it's name entails, they provide clean drinking water for people who don't have it.  

in ethiopia, there are a lot of people who need clean water.

we spent about 2.5 weeks traveling around northern ethiopia, we visited more than 35 villages without access to clean drinking water...all of which will get clean water because we were there.
pretty exciting.

i shot video which will be edited for the website www.borninseptember.org, where people will give up their birthdays to raise money for clean water.  1.5 million dollars.

that was a very poorly written brief overview...here's what you should know about ethiopia -

1.  they eat everything with injera; a sour pancake thing.  its not that good...but not that bad, it's kind of weird.

2.  ambo - probably the only third world country with their own internal sparkling water brand, it's called ambo.  its better than perrier or pellegrino, and it's all natural.  they should export...if they decide to export, they should do it with this slogan...third world product - first world taste.

to be continued...soon

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