Empowering Next Generation - EngEthiopia

Empowering Next Generation - EngEthiopia ENG is an indigenous, youth-led, and youth- and women-focused nonprofit empowering ages 15–35.

We drive change through health, peacebuilding, career growth, and volunteerism, fostering active participation in shaping Ethiopia’s future.

FINALLY 👠🔹️To everyone who has walked this journey with us - liking, sharing, reposting, and helping amplify these stori...
31/03/2026

FINALLY 👠

🔹️To everyone who has walked this journey with us - liking, sharing, reposting, and helping amplify these stories - thank you.

🔹️ Your support has played an immeasurable role in educating our generation and leaving footprints for the next.

🔹️Together, we’ve reminded the world that women have always been more than what history often limits them to. Yes, women have raised generations of thinkers, leaders, and change-makers, but they have also been pioneers in science, voices in politics, creators in art, and forces in social transformation, and so much more.
🔹️There are countless others whose stories are still waiting to be told, remembered, and celebrated.

Let’s continue this beyond today.
Let’s tell our children the stories of women heroes.
Let’s show every girl that her dreams are valid, and that she, too, can make history.


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✨️ Muluemebet Emiru was born in Gore, in southwestern Ethiopia, into a prominent and educated family.✨️ She spent part o...
27/03/2026

✨️ Muluemebet Emiru was born in Gore, in southwestern Ethiopia, into a prominent and educated family.

✨️ She spent part of her youth in Dire Dawa, one of Ethiopia’s most cosmopolitan cities then—connected by railway, exposed to foreigners, new technologies, and new ideas.

✨️ Her path to aviation came through this rare exposure. During the early 1930s, as Ethiopia began introducing modern aviation under Emperor Haile Selassie, Muluemebet seized the opportunity to train. Surrounded by male pilots and a field dominated by men, she learned to fly with discipline and determination.

✨️ In 1934, she earned her pilot’s license, becoming not only Ethiopia’s first female pilot—but Africa’s first.

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🫟Abebech Gobena was born on October 20, 1935, in Shebel, North Shoa, Oromia. After losing her father during the Second I...
26/03/2026

🫟Abebech Gobena was born on October 20, 1935, in Shebel, North Shoa, Oromia. After losing her father during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, she was raised by her grandparents. Forced into marriage at just 10, she courageously fled to Addis Ababa, where she pursued basic education and later worked in a coffee and grain company.

🫟In 1973, during a pilgrimage to Gishen Mariam, she encountered the devastating famine. Moved by the suffering, she gave away her only food and brought two orphaned children back home with her—an act that would shape her life’s mission.

🫟In 1980, she founded AGOHELMA, one of Ethiopia’s earliest orphanages. Beyond shelter, the organization has since provided education, HIV/AIDS prevention, community development, and women’s empowerment—transforming countless lives with compassion and resilience.



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✅ ሼልፍዎ ላይ የሚገኙ ያገለገሉ መጻሕፍትን በቀላሉ ለመሸጥ፣ የሚፈልጉትን ከህትመት የጠፋ መጽሐፍ ለመግዛት፣ መጻሕፍትን በተመጣጣኝ ዋጋ ተከራይተው ለማንበብ እንዲሁም የማይፈልጓቸውን መጻሕፍት...
26/03/2026

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Segenet Kelemu✨️Born in Finote Selam, Segenet Kelemu grew up working on farms and selling produce in local markets—where...
26/03/2026

Segenet Kelemu

✨️Born in Finote Selam, Segenet Kelemu grew up working on farms and selling produce in local markets—where she witnessed the harsh realities of agriculture, especially for women, and the constant struggle for food security. Those early experiences shaped her determination to find solutions.

✨️In 1974, she became the first woman from her region to join Addis Ababa University, graduating top of her class in 1979. She later earned her master’s degree in plant pathology and genetics from Montana State University.

✨️In 2013, she made history as the first woman to lead the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Nairobi, after serving at AGRA.

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Senedu Gebru (born 13 January 1916) was an Ethiopian educator, writer, and politician, and the first woman elected to Pa...
26/03/2026

Senedu Gebru (born 13 January 1916) was an Ethiopian educator, writer, and politician, and the first woman elected to Parliament in 1957.

✨️Born in Addis Alem near Addis Ababa, she studied at the Swedish Mission School before continuing in Switzerland and France, where she learned French and English and earned a literature degree from Lausanne University.

✨️Before the Italian invasion, she became politically active, working with foreign journalists to advocate for Ethiopia. During the occupation, she joined the Black Lions, established a Red Cross unit, and served as an informant on Italian troop movements. She was later captured, interrogated, and imprisoned on the island of Asinara with her father and sister.

✨️After the war, she held key leadership roles, including Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, Vice President of the Senate, and General Secretary of the Ministry of Social Affairs. She strongly advocated for gender equality, challenging laws in the 1960 Civil Code that limited women’s rights.


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✨️Emmahoy Gelanesh Haddis was a renowned Ethiopian qéne teacher born in Goggam. Blinded at age eight after a smallpox in...
26/03/2026

✨️Emmahoy Gelanesh Haddis was a renowned Ethiopian qéne teacher born in Goggam. Blinded at age eight after a smallpox infection, she was nonetheless educated by her father, a respected church scholar, and went on to master qéne poetry and biblical interpretation.

✨️After assisting her father, she built her own legacy as a teacher. During the Italian invasion of 1936, many clergy—including her father—were executed, but she survived and continued teaching after liberation.

✨️Over more than 50 years, she trained around 1,750 students and became one of the few and most celebrated female scholars in the Ethiopian. Her influence spread across multiple regions, and she remains a respected figure in Ethiopia’s religious and literary tradition.


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✨️Martha Nassibou, daughter of Dejazmatch Nassibou Zamanuel and Woizero Aztede Babitcheff, was born in Addis Abeba in 19...
26/03/2026

✨️Martha Nassibou, daughter of Dejazmatch Nassibou Zamanuel and Woizero Aztede Babitcheff, was born in Addis Abeba in 1931. Shortly after the Italian invasion of Ethiopia she was taken with all her family to Italy where they lived as captives of the Fascist government from 1936 to 1944.
She wrote a book about this experience.

✨️Martha attended the International School in Geneva and studied art at the Académie des Beaux Arts in Paris and the Art Students League in New York.

✨️Her first exhibition of work was organized by the Ethiopian ministry of Education and Fine Arts in 1945 when she was only 14.

✨️Martha was also an accomplished writer and a poet. She published a book to honour the memory of her father, Dejazmatch Nassibou Zamanuel, hero of the Ethiopian struggle against the occupying Italian army.


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✅ Happening Now at ENG ✅ Our second week of the Green Pill is going on. After last week’s onboarding and intro...
26/03/2026

✅ Happening Now at ENG

✅ Our second week of the Green Pill is going on. After last week’s onboarding and introductory session, today we’ll delve into the fundamentals of problems and business.

✅ The fifth cohort of the Green Pill program, a 12 week value-creation lab, is brought to you with the collaboration of Efuye Gela and Empowering Next Generation-ENG.



✅ Ethiopian scientist and activist Dr. Bogalech Gebre (Boge) was born in Kembata Tembaro, southern Ethiopia in 1960, int...
26/03/2026

✅ Ethiopian scientist and activist Dr. Bogalech Gebre (Boge) was born in Kembata Tembaro, southern Ethiopia in 1960, into a family of 14.

✅ Like many girls in Africa, she underwent female ge***al mutilation at about 12 and lost an elder sister during childbirth.
In a time when girls’ education was discouraged, Boge secretly pursued school, eventually becoming a Fulbright scholar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and later studying at the University of California, Los Angeles.

✅ With her sister Fikirte Gebre, she founded KMG Ethiopia (formerly Kembatti Mentti Gezzima-Tope) in 1997. The organization reduced FGM rates from nearly 100% to under 3% in some areas, reaching over 2.8 million people across 26 woredas in SNNP and Oromia.

✅ Boge received the 2005 North-South Prize, the 2007 Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights, and the 2014 King Baudouin Prize for confronting culturally entrenched taboos.



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✅ Ms. Mamitu’s story begins when she was a 15-year-old in a remote Ethiopian village. She married a local man, became pr...
26/03/2026

✅ Ms. Mamitu’s story begins when she was a 15-year-old in a remote Ethiopian village. She married a local man, became pregnant and after three days of labor, she lapsed into unconsciousness and the baby was stillborn.

✅ “After I woke up, the bed was wet” with urine, she remembers. “I thought I would get better after two or three days, but I didn’t.”
Soon her husband abandons her, the constant trickle of urine leaves her with terrible sores on her legs.

✅ Ms. Mamitu was brought to a Hamlin Fistula hospital here in Addis Ababa.

✅ After that operation, decades ago, Ms. Mamitu was given a job making beds in the hospital. Then she began helping out during surgeries, and after a couple of years of watching she was asked by Dr. Reg Hamlin to cut some stitches. Eventually, Ms.

✅ Mamitu was routinely performing the entire fistula repair herself.

✅ Over the decades, Ms. Mamitu has gradually become one of the world’s most experienced fistula surgeons.



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✅ አድዋ የኢትዮጵያ ዘላለማዊ የክብርታሪክ፣የጥቁር ህዝቦች ሁሉ ኩራት፣ለፍትህና እኩልነት የቆሙ መላው የሰው ልጆች ሁሉ ድል ✅ተዋግቶ ከማሸነፍም ከመሸነፈም ያለፈ inequality...
02/03/2026

✅ አድዋ የኢትዮጵያ ዘላለማዊ የክብር
ታሪክ፣የጥቁር ህዝቦች ሁሉ ኩራት፣ለፍትህና እኩልነት የቆሙ መላው የሰው ልጆች ሁሉ ድል

✅ተዋግቶ ከማሸነፍም ከመሸነፈም ያለፈ inequalityን እና injusticesን አሻፈረኝ የማለት ጥቁር ምልክት።

✅ የሰው ልጅ በዚያ ቁጥር በዚያ ልክ ለአንድ ነገር በአንድ ዘመን ለመተባበር ፍቃደኛ መሆኑ እራሱ ትንግርት ነው፡፡

✅ ክብሩ ዘላለማዊ ታሪኩ ግን ያለፈ ነውና ዛሬን ለመገንባት አብረን እንነሳ፡፡ መልካም የአድዋ ድል በዓል ለሁላችን፡፡
እንኳን ለ130ኛው የአድዋ ድል መታሰቢያ ቀን በሰላም አደረሳችሁ አደረሰን 🙏



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