Ways in which Ethiopia is connected to the world Supporting education in Ethiopia Supporting education in Ethiopia Ways in which Ethiopia is connected to the world

These Ethiopian runners competed in London in the 2012 Olympic Games . Supporting education in Ethiopia Sule Utura Genzebe Dibaba Ayele Abishiro Haile Gebreselassie These Ethiopian runners competed in London in the 2012 Olympic Games .

Supporting education in Ethiopia Around 20,000 Ethiopians live in UK, especially in London. Some of them have opened restaurants selling Ethiopian food.

Supporting education in Ethiopia Teddy Afro is a popular musician in Ethiopia. He performed in London as part of a world tour in 2009. One of his songs, ‘Haile, Haile’ honours the Ethiopian Olympic champion Haile Gebrselassie. In this short video he is performing the song in 2011 in Melbourne, Australia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkWtPeWmi3g

http://vimeo.com/35764583 Supporting education in Ethiopia Ethiopia is one of the world’s largest producers of coffee and exports it all over the world. It may be sold in shops near you! Here is a short video of Ethiopian coffee farmers http://vimeo.com/35764583

Supporting education in Ethiopia The clothing industry also interconnects the world, as traders in this market in the town of Gondar, Ethiopia, tell us.

Supporting education in Ethiopia Jon sells traditional Ethiopian clothes made from cotton grown in Ethiopia

Supporting education in Ethiopia Emmanual sells second hand clothes which have been imported from other countries including India and Italy.

Supporting education in Ethiopia Eyayu is a tailor. He makes woollen clothes. Some of the wool comes from Ethiopian sheep and some of it is imported from China.

Supporting education in Ethiopia Would you find the same kinds of clothes stalls and the same kind of global interconnections in your local market?

Supporting education in Ethiopia Approximately 20,000 people in Ethiopia are employed by the textile industry, growing and weaving cotton, making, importing and selling clothes. Some is large-scale industrial processes and some is small scale cotton growing for spinning and weaving traditional fabric by hand.

The average Ethiopian currently uses 1 kg of fabric per year. Supporting education in Ethiopia Supporting education in Ethiopia The average Ethiopian currently uses 1 kg of fabric per year. The average world consumption per person is 8.7 kg. If you weighed all the new clothes you have had in the last year, do you think it would come to more or less than the world average? Supporting education in Ethiopia

Supporting education in Ethiopia Ethiopia grows about the same amount of cotton as is used by Ethiopian textile and clothing manufacturers (local supply 51,000 tonnes, local demand 57,000 tonnes (2010)).

Do you think this is fair? Supporting education in Ethiopia In 2010, the Ethiopian government banned export of raw cotton. They said the country could earn far more foreign currency by making the cotton into cloth and selling that. A kilogramme of raw cotton sells for about $2. A kilogramme of cloth can be sold for $15. Part of the reason cotton is so cheap is because the EU and USA subsidise their cotton farmers. Do you think this is fair? Do you think the Ethiopian ban on exporting cotton was a good idea?

Supporting education in Ethiopia Where were the clothes you are wearing made? Look at the label to see if you can find out. But global interconnections are even more complicated than that – the raw materials may have come from yet another country!