An exchange of information regarding lost and found articles can be initiated by the founder or the property owner. (company name) never takes possession of a lost item ― it merely acts as a conduit to connect a finder with an owner. A finder posts a description, time and place when an item is found. The property owner who lost an article also posts an announcement of the probable time and place of a loss, with some identifying information. Once proper identification of the article is made between the owner and the finder, pickup and delivery of lost items is arranged through a network of independent taxi services for a fee in the metro area.
PROPRIETORS PRIVACY PROTECTION
By incorporating simple procedures on the website during the registration process, and withholding key information for identification of the item (company name) will assist in making an accurate identification with both parties. Identity of either the finder or the property owner is not revealed until the item has been satisfactorily located and is ready for delivery to the rightful owner.
Excerpt from a Training Manual
Training Objectives
Surface Transport Contracting (STC) is a key element in field operations. Surface transport requires a standard of institutionalized best practices to deliver food and other commodities to targeted beneficiaries. WFP operates through 7 regional bureaux and approximately 80 country offices.
The overall objectives of the STC Training are:
i. Standardize knowledge and best practices in surface transport contract management in country offices and regional bureaux
ii. Institutionalize best practices in strategic planning and preparedness to respond to emergencies and develop mechanisms to identify best players in the market, secure capacity for timely delivery and cost saving.
The immediate objectives of the STC Training are the following:
i. Improve performance in field operations particularly, in surface transport contracting (STC) for greater impact on the preparedness quality and a more pro active position in planning forward looking transport strategies
ii. Expand the knowledge base and skill sets in field operations
iii. Maximize STC efficiency with results in:
• Better control over external factors, for instance, volatile market conditions, hostile environments, fluctuating prices, and limited capacity in transport infrastructure
• Cost effective in contracting transport services
• Reliability and accuracy in delivery process
• Minimal leakage and loss of consignment
• Achieve balance in delivery process in right time, right place, and right cost
• Provide tools for skill enhancement in key areas directly relevant to STC
• Transfer knowledge for surface transport contract management methodology to new comers
• Train the Trainer (TOT) strategies
• Multiplier effect in knowledge transfer and dissemination
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Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Guebrou
Her Life, Her Music, Her Vision
You may have heard of Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guebrou or perhaps you may not. She is a pianist, a composer and also a painter, a poet and lyricist in several languages. As her title denotes Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Guebrou is a nun who resides in a monastery in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem. Before she took her vows as a nun, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam was known as Woizerit Yewubdar Guebrou.
CHILDHOOD
Born in Addis Ababa on December 12, 1923 to a privileged family of Kantiba Guebrou Desta and Woizero Kassaye Yelemtu, Woizerit Yewubdar was sent to Switzerland in 1929 at the age of six along with her elder sister Woizerit Senedou. Both attended a girls' boarding school and it was there that she first learned piano and violin. Young Yewubdar gave her first violin recital at the age of ten. She returned to Ethiopia in 1933 to continue her studies at the Empress Mennen Secondary School. In 1937, Yewubdar and her family were deported as prisoners of the Italian fascist regime of Benitto Musolini to the island of Asinara, north of Sardinia, and then to Mercogliano, near Naples.
AFTER THE WAR
Yewubdar resumed her musical studies in Cairo, under a Polish violinist named Alexander Kontorowicz, Yewubdar returned to Ethiopia accompanied by Kontoriwicz. Yewudar served as administrative assistant and secretary as the only other staff member next to the minister in the ministry of foreign affairs. Later she served in the same capacity in the Imperial Body Guard where Kontoriwicz was appointed by the Emperor Haile Selassie as director of the music band.
A DEVOTEE
Young Yewubdar secretly fled Addis Abeba to enter the Guishen Maryam monastery in the Wèllo region where she had visited once before with her mother. After two years of service in the austere enviroment of the monastery she was ordained a nun with a title Ema Hoy and changed her name to Emahoy Tsegue Maryam.
Despite the difficulties she encountered in the religious order and the limited appreciation for her music in Ethiopian culture, Emahoy Tsegue Maryam continued to play violin, piano and organ and went on to write many compositions working feverishly day and night.
MUSICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Her first record was released in Germany in 1967; other recordings followed until she left Ethiopia for Israel in 1984. Emahoy Tsegue Maryam used the revenue from her music sales to help orphans and poor children in Ethiopia.
In 1997 her first CD was released in Israel entirely financed from her meager monthly stipend from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. She donated the proceeds to help in the renovation of the Holy Trinity Church in Jericho. The church was accidentally shelled during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and has been closed for religious service ever since.
In 2006 Buda music, a company located in France released CD Ethiopiques No. 21, a compilation of Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Guebrou’s solo piano compositions. Emahoy has committed the proceeds from Ethiopiques No. 21 to meet the high cost of renovation until the church is fully functional.
