Shabait.com (Asmara)
21 May 2008
Asmara — Eritrean nationals residing in Belgium and Switzerland reaffirmed their readiness to back up the ongoing development drive in the Homeland and safeguard the nation's sovereignty.
In a public meeting they held on May 18 in Brussels City, Eritrean citizens who live in Belgium decided to donate 200 Euro each and students 50 Euro each within three months in support of the national cause. On top of this, the participants of the meeting voluntarily made financial donations, according to reports.
The Eritrean Ambassador to the European Union (EU), Mr. Girma Asmerom, gave briefings to the participants on the objective situation in the Homeland and the region.
Likewise, Eritrean citizens residing in the Swiss cities of Luzon, Geneva, Berne, Basle, Zurich and Nushatel held similar public meetings on the 10th and 18th of May, during which they reiterated their commitment to rebuff anti-Eritrea hostilities and step up the national development drive. They also pledged to contribute 250-500 Swiss francs each in expression of their support to development programs in the Homeland.
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Help your starvig 9.000.000 children in Ethiopia. don't west your time her, Ethiopian Children are starving to death.
Help your starvig 9.000.000 children in Ethiopia. don't west your time her, Ethiopian Children are starving to death.
If these guys think its such a bloody wonderful country, why aren't they back there trying to make it work?!?! Oh, I know, it's a bloody Neo-Stalinist state run buy a despot whom has driven investors away with his human rights violations and half in the bug nutbag ideas of personal and religious freedoms.
Keep your money or send it to your families, stop feeding this half-baked regime!