Author Archive Together!

  Together!, a prominent organization that works to improve the lives of persons with disabilities, celebrated its 10th anniversary on March 23, 2023. The event was marked with a series of colorful events. On March 6, the actual date of establishment, Together23 conducted a blood donation program in the presence of representatives from the Ethiopian Red Cross Society. An announcement was made in the media, and a considerable number of donors were present and donated blood. Additionally, a “dinner-in-the-dark” was conducted at Sarem Hotel.   On March 23, the colorful ceremony was opened by the Executive Director, Ato Berhanu Belay, who gave a brief account of the formation of Together!, its objectives, project components, achievements made, and challenges faced. Following the opening speech, Commissioner Girma Seyfu, head of the Addis Ababa Investment Commission, was designated as an ambassador for Together!, in recognition of the committed support he gave to the organization. Children from the Day Care Center of Together! sang a song accompanied by keyboard music, expressing their gratitude for the education and other opportunities they have received from the organization. A PowerPoint presentation of the general and specific objectives of Together!, its project components and activities, achievements, and challenges were presented. Performers with visual impairments presented an impressive fashion show, demonstrating the capacity of persons with disabilities. An Amharic poem concerning the destiny of human beings in general, and persons with disabilities in particular, was also presented, highlighting the achievements and challenges faced by persons with disabilities in the past, and recommendations for raising the chances of success for persons with disabilities as a whole. Certificates were handed over to individuals and organizations by Dr. Eshetu Bekele and Commissioner Girma Seyfu, respectively. Finally, lunch was served to all attendees. The celebration concluded with a happy note, highlighting the achievements of Together! in the past 10 years, and renewing the organization’s commitment to continue working towards a brighter future for persons with disabilities.

Heartheblindspot.org is a sonified data-driven web experience that champions the need for a more inclusive and accessible internet. It tells the story of a visually impaired young woman in Ethiopia called Desta. Through music, Desta celebrates progress made in Ethiopia during her lifetime, culminating with the rapid rise of the internet. But there’s a problem: inaccessible websites mean that more than 4 million visually impaired Ethiopians are being left behind, further excluded from a society in which they are already marginalized. Desta’s message is clear: visually impaired people cannot remain in society’s digital blind spot any longer. Hear the Blind Spot launches with a special live performance of Desta’s story at the sixth annual Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica), which will be hosted in Addis Ababa for the first time 23-26 September 2019. During the performance, sighted attendees will be invited to wear eye masks to experience the story in the same way as someone with severe visual impairment. Creating an experience that sighted and visually impaired people can share alike is crucial to the campaign, which hopes to build empathy and greater awareness about the digital exclusion of visually impaired people. Together! hope that many more live performances of ‘Hear the Blind Spot’ can take place at schools and in communities across the country. To achieve this goal Together! held the first Hear The Blind Spot campaign in Minilik primary school and Miyaziya 23 primary school.

   

Together displayed fashion show and art exhibition today January 15 ,2021                                                     

We celebrated Dec 3 international disability day with the cooperation of Gullele sub city labour affairs office. On that memorable day, Visually impaired persons showed their ability by performing fashion show to the participants

Table setup , serving, communication, and dressing code training has been given at Sarem hottel for 8 individuals with visual impairment waiters and waitresses.    

Together! has produced an audio campaign to raise awareness of COVID-19 health precautions for persons with visual impairments and disabilities in Addis Ababa for three consecutive days.

Orientation Session on Covid-19 and child abuse with Together Children! ቱጌዘር ለህጻናት ስለ ኮቪድ 19 እና ህጻናት ላይ ሊደርሱ ስለሚችሉ ጥቃቶች ግንዛቤ ማስጨበጫ ኦሬንቴሽን ሰጠ::

  Distribution of goods to 50 persons with visually impaired personnel(from Together and Other beneficiaries) Donated by ‘Yenesew’ and Doctor in Action Non profitable Organization. የኔ ሰው እና ዶክተር ኢን አፍሪካ በተሰኙ ለጥቅም ባልተቋቋሙ ድርጂቶች ከተገኘ ድጋፍ፤ ቱጌዘር ለ50 አይነስዉራን ተጠቃሚዎቹና ለሌሎች የተለያዩ የምግብና የንጽህና መስጫ ቁሳቁሶችን ሰጠ::

  Home to Home Distribution of goods to Together Beneficiaries collected from Individual Donors. ቱጌዘር ከተለያዩ ረጂ ግለሰቦች ያገኝውን የምግብና የንጽህና መጠበቂያ ቁሳቁሶችን ለተጠቃሚዎች አደረሰ::