{"id":206808,"date":"2021-10-29T21:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T19:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/u-s-ambassador-geeta-pasi-visits-hawassa?lang=en"},"modified":"2021-10-29T21:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T19:23:04","slug":"u-s-ambassador-geeta-pasi-visits-hawassa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/u-s-ambassador-geeta-pasi-visits-hawassa\/","title":{"rendered":"U. S. Ambassador Geeta Pasi Visits Hawassa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Continuing her travels across Ethiopia, U.S. Ambassador Geeta Pasi visited Hawassa. During her daylong visit,\u202fthe\u202fAmbassador\u202fmet with business leaders, workers, academics, and journalists to talk about U.S. government programs and as well as to hear from them about their experiences in their respective fields.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Ambassador\u202fvisited\u202fthe Hawassa Industrial Park, the first sustainable textile and apparel industrial park in Africa, where she\u202fhad the opportunity\u202fto meet with\u202fHibret\u202fLemma, CEO of Hawassa Industrial Park Investors Association (HIPIA)\u202fand\u202ftalk to HIPIA members. The workers told the Ambassador\u202fthe African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)\u202fand other support from the United States had\u202fpositively\u202fimpacted their lives.\u202f\u202fShe\u202falso\u202fspoke with women\u202fwho are beneficiaries of\u202fUSAID’s Worker Wellness Alliance\u202fabout the\u202fprogram’s\u202fefforts to help women integrate into formal work and life in\u202fthe\u202fsurrounding communities.<\/p>\n

Ambassador Pasi\u202funderscored that the United States and Ethiopia have a shared goal to ensure that the people of Ethiopia continue to benefit from AGOA.\u202fThe United States stands ready to work with the government to this end.<\/p>\n

The Ambassador was\u202fhonored to\u202fhave an opportunity hear from young Ethiopians\u202fworking\u202fto bring about peace and prosperity in\u202ftheir country, in part, by partnering with USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives. Student\u202fleaders\u202ffrom Hawassa University were joined by\u202fDr. Debrawork, the\u202fDean of\u202fthe\u202fCollege of Law and Governance, to share their efforts to promote peace on campus and in communities.<\/p>\n

Ambassador Pasi also visited Hawassa University, with which the U.S. Embassy has had a long and very fruitful relationship,\u202fincluding English language education and journalism, programs that\u202fbenefit students and the people of Ethiopia. \u202fShe spoke with University President Dr. Ayano Berasso, Vice President Dr. Tafesse Matios and Vice President Dr. Fiseha Getachew, about their work to prepare the next generation for the future.<\/p>\n

Since\u202ftaking\u202fon her role\u202fas U.S Ambassador to Ethiopia,\u202fAmbassador Pasi\u202fhas\u202fvisited the regions of\u202fAmhara,\u202fSidama,\u202fSomali,\u202fSNNP, and\u202fTigray\u202fto\u202fbuild upon the\u202fvalued partnerships between the people of our two countries. The\u202fAmbassador\u202fwas thrilled to have the opportunity to visit with the people\u202fof\u202fHawassa. \u202fIn a statement to the press at the end of the day, she reaffirmed\u202fU.S. support for continued partnership with Ethiopia.\u202f Since 2000, the African Growth and Opportunity Act – AGOA – has been a foundational element of U.S. economic and commercial engagement with Africa. The legislation that created AGOA established criteria for eligibility, which are reviewed annually. These criteria include\u202fthe requirement\u202fthat a beneficiary country\u202fnot engage\u202fin gross violations of human rights. \u202fThe United States is committed to our partnership with\u202fEthiopia.<\/p>\n

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of U.S. Embassy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Continuing her travels across Ethiopia, U.S. Ambassador Geeta Pasi visited Hawassa. During her daylong visit,\u202fthe\u202fAmbassador\u202fmet with business leaders, workers, academics, and journalists to talk about U.S. government programs and as well as to hear from them about their experiences in their respective fields. The Ambassador\u202fvisited\u202fthe Hawassa Industrial Park, the first sustainable textile and apparel industrial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-206808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/u-s-ambassador-geeta-pasi-visits-hawassa.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}