When in Bahir Dar, some of us were not in our best shape due to either the long bus ride, the new bacterial strain or maybe not using hand sanitizers enough. Some of us needed to rest for a while, if we put it that...
I wake up at 3 am on the bathroom floor. There are two plausible candidates why I have had to get my beauty sleep within arm’s reach of these facilities. One is tasty Sambosas on a street corner in the company of a group of...
Ethiopia, Travel Blog / 24.05.2019
UF in Ethiopia Day 5: COFFEE TASTING, MOUNT ENTOTO AND ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN´S SANCTUARY AND DEVELOPMENT
On Thursday we woke up early to visit Seife’s, a coffee distributor run by the Swedish-Ethiopian Seife Tuuloskorpi. Seife’s is not only very passionate about coffee but it also has a conscious approach to coffee production and distribution and works closely with local farmers to...
Ethiopia, Travel Blog / 23.05.2019
UF in Ethiopia day 4: Ethiopians making efforts to both poor children and Uppsala students
We woke up to a fresh morning on the Wednesday in Addis. This forenoon, we were about to meet with the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF), a Panafrican advocacy organisation based in Ethiopia. We were warmly welcomed to fantastic premises. We all agreed that we wouldn't...
After starting off our Tuesday with breakfast, we went to the Red Terror Memorial Museum. It was a small but very important and moving place, as it explained the rise and acts by the communist regime between 1974 and 1991, and the killing and torture...
Second day of the trip, a day full of meetings! We had breakfast at our hotel and walk to the first one: the Swedish Embassy in Ethiopia. We were received with a traditional swedish fika by our hosts Helena and Alicia. During the meeting, they...
Ethiopia, Travel Blog / 20.05.2019
UF in Ethiopia Day 1: Stories without boundaries and a taste for injera
Welcome to the UF travel blog! The destination of this spring has been Ethiopia, a country in the horn of Africa that is currently undergoing a lot of political reforms and structural changes. On the fourth of May, 16 travelers set of to a long...
Activity, Featured / 19.05.2019
May 22 – Movie Night – Climate Change
“ - I don’t want your hope, I want you to panic.” Greta Thunberg has during the last year stated many facts about the climate crisis we are all facing and why we all have reason to panic. But why should we panic!? Not that we don’t...
Activity, Featured / 19.05.2019
May 21 – UF Annual Election Meeting 2019
Uppsala Association of International Affairs welcome all members to the General Elections Meeting on May 21st 2019! The meeting will include the election of all board positions, an accountant and the election committee. Attendance and voting rights are given to members who have, at the latest twenty-one...