IN 1991, CARE, the world'
largest private relief and devel­
opment organization, opened an
office in the nearby town of
Gelemso to help farmers in sur­
rounding villages improve their
lives. Jillo, then 63-year old, de­
cided to make the two-day trek
on foot to ask for CARE's help.
He returned to his village a week
later with Tibebe Alemayeu, a
CARE irrigation expert, by his
, ide.
"This man can help us," he
old his grandson, "if let him."
The development worker
carefully assessed the villagers'
handiwork. To their surprise, he
was impressed by what he saw.
"Considering how little for­
mal education the farmers have,
their water system was truly in­
genious," Alemayeu says. "All it
needed to run properly were a
few minor modifications and bet­
ter managed upkeep."
Jillo called a town meeting to
discuss the water system. The
village elders were skeptical
that such small changes would
make a real difference. They
. were afraid that once they
agreed to fix the system, they
would get stuck with a lot of bills
they couldn't afford to pay.
"I'm an old man, " Jillo told his
fellow villagers. "I\re learned to
I
"I'hey're saying that my
grandpa is a hero," the little boy
explains. "It makes me very
proud; I really love him."
The child' grau,UI.III:1I1:ll!!W'
smiles embarrassedly when he
hears his grandson's praise.
"I'm not such a great man,"
Jillo says, shaking his head. "I
just saw a void in our community
- and a way to fill it. CARE
made our su possible. II
alliq ·d gold
Ethlop nflve-y r·old,HabroJillo,en oy th fir tel andrln Ingwaterh ha ev rta t d. Jlllo' gr netf th rw
In updating the community'. dilapidated wat r y tem, with help from CARE, th world' tar' t prlvate reli f and d v
org zatlon. To y nough water flow to fill the drln ing nd bathing n eda of 260 viii 9 r - and to Irrigate t
th n 120 cr of coff , maiz nd orghwn.
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SPRINGFIELD, a - Black and
Jewish legislators in the Illinois
Hous of Representati , quar­
reled over th use of the word
"holocaust" while approving a
memorial to the Underground
Railroad that helped Black pe0-
ple escape from slavery
The House approved a resolu­
tion August 20 calling for the
Illinois Secretary of State's office
to establish markers alo g th
Underground Railroad 1'0 te as .
it cut through Illinois, tr ating
house tba onoe helped to hide
runaway slaves as historic land­
marks.
In her resolution, state Rep.
onique Davis, D-Chicago, re­
ferred to the markers as helping
trivializing. Why can't he just
take out the word."
Davis refused, saying "I have
no intention of trivializing what
happened to Schoenberg's group
of people. But I am concerned
about your attempt to stop a peo­
ple who have been historically
deprived of their rights from us­
ing the word."
State Rep. Coy Pugh, D-Chi­
cago, went further, aying he be­
lieves Bla peopl ha r
,.Ns1;?,ri��im tou eofhol�ust.
"Millions of Jews died while
in concentration camp , but
hundreds of millions of African
people died in the Middle Pas­
sage (on ships while being
brought here from Africa.)",
Pugh said. "If th re was a mo­
nopoly on the word holocaust,
the African American commu­
nity would have dibs on the
term."
The resolution passed by a 63-
o vote, but 42 p ntati
voted"p ent. "
to remember the "holocaust"
that confronted runaway sla
That upset state Rep. Jeffrey
Schoenberg, D-Wilmette, who is'
Jewish and said h believes us
of the "Holocaust" has come to
refer to the plight of Jewish pe0-
ple in Nazi Germany.
"THE HOLOCAUST refers
to a specific tragedy that hap­
. �, arid his�cy,"
After the 1990 census, the
Council approved a redistricting
plan that allowed whites to keep
a 5-to-4 majority, but Black
council-members sued and won.
"With this new Council I
think the Black people of Selma
and th white people are going
to feel better about being repre­
sented," said McArthur Wil­
liams, one of the new Black
Councilmen who will take office
in October.
Blacks win control of Selma Council '
SELMA, ALA-Blacks have
won control of the City Council
in this city where a bloody clash
between civil rights marchers
and the police three decades ago
galvanized the nation and
spurred passage of the Voting
Rights Act in 1965 .
Blacks constitute 58 percent
of the city's 24,000 residents, but
it took a court-ordered redistrict­
ing plan for Blacks to win five of
the nine seats in a recent elec­
tion.
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