Time flies so fast it seems like it was just yesterday when I received Ethiopia’s Bego Sewu award

Time flies so fast it seems like it was just yesterday when I received Ethiopia’s Bego Sewu award የበጎ ሰው ሽልማት

Below is the inserts or quotes from my speech at the award ceremony:

“Thank you የበጎ ሰው ሽልማት or Bego Sewu organization for acknowledging me and the work of the Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SMNE) and its members in honoring us with this prestigious award for work done for the people of

#Ethiopia in the Diaspora and within Ethiopia.

Yebego Sew Award

While I deeply thank you for this honor, I want to emphasize that the real winner of this የበጎ ሰው or Yeametu Bego Sewu award is the universal principles that are foundational to this work; the belief that humanity comes before ethnicity or any other difference because we are all created equal and also that God calls us to care about our neighbors— near, far and beyond— not only because it is right, but because no will be sustainably free until all are free. In other words, this is not about me, Obang or even our movement,the SMNE, but it is an endorsement of the principles we have held as central to our work and vision for a New Ethiopia.

I may be receiving this የበጎ ሰው Bego Sewu award today, but this will make no lasting difference unless each of us Ethiopians becomes the good person of the hour, the day, the week, the month, the year and the future. Help make a difference in the lives of others Ethiopians.

We can do that at the same time, collaborating towards a common goal. Look at some examples of success through collaboration—the joining of Ethiopians together led to the Adwa victory.

The joining of Ethiopians to reach out to other Africans in the early 1950ties led to the formation of the African Union. After that, we saw the formation of Ethiopian Airlines, which has become the pride of Africa, one of its success stories, only accomplished because of effective collaboration.

May we the people of Ethiopia humble ourselves to become people of virtue and moral courage. We have responsibility. The good person of the year can be you!

Let’s do it together, blessing others and being blessed as people and a nation in a global world!

Long Live Ethiopia!

Obang Metho