YPFDJ-Minnesota

08/17/2020

03/26/2020

Eritrea Fights COVID-19 website is now LIVE! Please donate and share with everyone

The Eritrea COVID-19 Response Fund is a historic opportunity for everyone, everywhere to help support the Ministry of Health in Eritrea engage in lifesaving work to prevent, detect, and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

11/26/2019

Community!
Join us on Saturday, November 30 from 12-6 pm for our first Health is Wealth Series!

The afternoon will include presentations by Health Professionals, exhibitions, workout routines, healthy food and more.

Participate in this year’s exciting activities and take steps towards a better lifestyle! 🇪🇷

11/19/2019

Community!
Join us on Saturday, November 30 from 12-6 pm for our first Health is Wealth Series!

The afternoon will include presentations by Health Professionals, exhibitions, workout routines, healthy food and more.

Participate in this year’s exciting activities and take steps towards a better lifestyle! 🇪🇷

10/19/2018

Are you 13 and up?
Do you have a kid(s) thats 13 and up?
Then this message is for you!
Hidri - Minnesota is hosting a new member orientation (OVERNIGHT!) on November 9th!

What is Hidri?
HIDRI is an organization formed as a training ground to create strong, conscious, and patriotic youth that can play leadership roles in their respective communities- locally and abroad in Eritrea. Its mission is to educate young Eritreans about community organization, civic duty, and social responsibility.

HIDRI aims to provide an environment where youth in high school can come together to reassert their identity, patriotism, and unity. HIDRI strives to educate Eritrean youth about their culture and (the) dynamic history of Eritrea. Creating this foundation will assure that the youth will become young successful Eritreans.

Hidri MN aims to focus on culture, identity, and higher education/post secondary education in 2018-2019.

Fill out the google form below!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfikvUuatJv8cfw47VSOoKUekHgQ_wlvsz44LDOYmSkMxUjZg/viewform

05/24/2018

News  8th Eri-Youth Festival 12-15 July 2018, Sawa April 9, 2018April 20, 2018 Admin 0 Comment “Youth, the vigor of Sustainable Development!” What is the Eri-Youth Festival? The Eri-Youth Festival, which is held in Sawa every two years, is a celebration of Eritrean youth! It celebrates their ma...

11/04/2017

A source at the Italian Embassy in Eritrea reports Al Diyaë Al Islamia School has resumed its regular service & that no one was injured at the protests in Asmara the other day.

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The members of YPFDJ-MN, engaged in student activism on our campuses and in our local communities ourselves, will always be in solidarity with youth actions in Eritrea. Eritrean independence is rooted in youth initiative and we take that as mission.

We are also committed to full, accurate representations of Eritrean narratives. There are regularly false reports of unrest in Asmara. We understand that such misrepresentations bolster foreign policies that are detrimental to peace in the Horn of Africa.

ኣብቲ ብቕድሚ ትማሊ ሰሉስ 31 ኣብ ከተማ ኣስመራ ዝተኸስተ ናዕቢ ዝሞተን ዝተጎድአን ሰብ ከምዘየሎ ምንጭታትና ሓቢሮም።

11/03/2017

Protest on the Streets of Asmara - The Cause

01 Nov 2017 - The U.S. Embassy in Asmara quickly shout out to the world ‘gunfire, gunfire, gunfire!!!’. Hours later, to Langley’s disappointment, they were told it wasn’t a coup after all. The Eritrean President-For-Life is still in charge of the country.

THE CAUSE

Eritrea’s Ministry of Education had outlined a plan, in mid-2014, for transferring all schools to become community schools administered and financed by the public. However, when the plan was presented to school administrators, it was vehemently opposed as being an unrealistic plan given the financial hardship that many communities are facing.

Ignoring these and other concerns, the government made proposals (in a circular that went out in mid-September), for the implementation of the proposals to make all schools, ‘community’ schools, immediately. The Islamic school Diae was one of the schools that was affected by these plans. Under these new plans Diae, which was run by parent committees as a private Islamic school, was to become a non-denominational public school run by the ‘local community’. When the school administration rejected these proposals and it became inevitable that the plans were to be forcibly implemented, the administration asked for an opportunity to consult with the wider school community.

At the meeting that took place on 15th October 2016, Haji Musa Mohamed Nur, a respected elder in the community made an impassioned speech and was taken to prison, over the following days, as a result. And it is this that triggered yesterday’s rally on the streets of Asmara.

At around 2:00 pm, Asmara time, around 100 boys and girls who are students at the Diae school walked in protest on the main promenades of Asmara, heading towards the presidential offices, demanding the reinstatement of their school’s administration and the release of the people who were incarcerated in relation to the recent opposition to the plans to change the status of their school.

Soon after the gathering, security officers armed with sticks begun beating up protestors and chasing them all the way to Akria, the neighbourhood of the school where many of the students were from.

Eritrea's Minister of Information, Yemane Gebremeskel, took to Twitter to downplay the importance of the protests, calling them a "small demonstration by one school in Asmara dispersed without any causality."

Protests are exceedingly rare in the Eritrean capital, where free speech and political demonstrations are severely curtailed.

07/09/2017

Asmara was added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List 🇪🇷 🐪 🎉

Edward Denison

06/17/2017

Registration is open for the national YPFDJ conference! Msg if you're interested in joining the conversation