We are a not for profit incorporated support group for the Ethiopian Community in Wellington. Our goals are to help Ethiopian people in Wellington with support, and advice on issues they meet in daily life such as welfare benefits, language, employment, housing, immigration, education and health issues.
Our Projects
We have a wide range of projects running and more planned. Projects are selected based on community input.
Our Committee
A committee consisting of 6 members is elected at the AGM and will serve for one year.
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Ethiopia is the home of Coffee. Love and coffee is best served hot❤️❤️. Ethiopia🇪🇹 is the first country in the world to discover coffee☕![]()
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Coffee grown worldwide can trace its heritage back centuries to the ancient coffee forests on the Ethiopian plateau. There, legend says the goat herder Kaldi first discovered the potential of these beloved beans. ![]()
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The story goes that that Kaldi discovered coffee after he noticed that after eating the berries from a certain tree, his goats became so energetic that they did not want to sleep at night. ![]()
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Kaldi reported his findings to the abbot of the local monastery, who made a drink with the berries and found that it kept him alert through the long hours of evening prayer. The abbot shared his discovery with the other monks at the monastery, and knowledge of the energizing berries began to spread.![]()
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As word moved east and coffee reached the Arabian peninsula, it began a journey which would bring these beans across the globe.![]()
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