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Live Interview with Yusuf Tura about the Obama Stove

Live Interview with Yusuf Tura about the Obama Stove
Jun 1, 2018 · 34m 34s

In African tradition when you are in major crisis you reach out to your village and the current crisis so big and I am trying to reach the whole world....

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In African tradition when you are in major crisis you reach out to your village and the current crisis so big and I am trying to reach the whole world. Can you help? Are you still offering your special promotion pricing? If so let us talk. I wrote down few things that I would like to cover.

The current crisis in Ethiopia is not being covered by most of the U.S. and world press. It's been going on since 2016, and it's gotten to the point where I am reaching out to all friends, and alike to raise awareness and drum-up some funding. Here are a few stories that have been published:

https://mg.co.za/article/2018-02-23-00-dont-underestimate-ethiopias-crisis
https://www.nation.co.ke/news/africa/Ethiopia-ethnic-fighting-displaces-one-million-UN/1066-4293100-lprom8/index.html
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-worsening-ethiopian-drought-threatens-nomadic.html

Even without the current political and economic crisis, the cookstove company is solving the problem of open-fire cooking, which kills over 5 million women and children per year, and which has deforested most of Eastern Africa. https://youtu.be/6MZJ2yU7IIE

There is a known solution, clean-burning, efficient, affordable cookstoves. Obamastove has been manufacturing such stoves in Ethiopia for over 10 years, selling the stoves to people living on a dollar or two per day. We've sold over 250,000 so far. That is a lot, but there are another 20 million Ethiopian households that need a stove like this. I have worked day in day out to grow this company, along the way I found great people and organization who have provided training and ongoing support. E.g. http://fledge.co/fledgling/obamastove/

Please join me in raising awareness of this issue.

Every $10 will provide one stove and fuel for one family. Thousands of families need not only urgent food, fuel and stoves to cook it.

Tax-deductible donations can be made at http://realizeimpact.org/obamastove/
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T. Gerard Williams

T. Gerard Williams

5 years ago

@Craig Sternagel, First of all thanks for listening and especially for commenting. This interview had a time limit and could not address all of the issues which is why I included the website information in the details. I am definitely planning to have a further discussion with Mr. Tura to address the problem further. Perhaps you could be a part of that when we set it up. Thanks again for listening in!
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