Agro Technical and Technology College History

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Historic Background MFM-ATTC
Karlheinz Böhm foundation Menschen für Menschen began its activity in the rear valley (eastern charge zone )in January 1982 by resettling people displaced due to war and natural disaster .then the foundation expanded its project to multifaceted developmental interventions that have paramount importance in raising the livelihood of the local community.
The major areas of intervention were soil and water conservation, reforestation, extension work, development of potable water supply schemes, infrastructure, health, and education.
Later on, it was realized that these activities should not be restricted to their original place and therefore the idea of introducing and ensuring holistic and sustainable development throughout the country in general and in the target community, in particular, was developed
Pursuant to this the foundation established the then Agro technical training center (ATTC) and commenced its activity officially in September 1992As a result of continuous and rigorous improvement and adjustments both on the mode of program delivery and resource profile, the former training center was upgraded to an accredited and nationally recognized technical college Agro-technical training college (ATTC), in the year 1997.in 2009, the college was renamed to the current nomenclature Agro technical and technology college in the year 2009.
Since 1997 and till late 2005 the college had been training young Ethiopians from different regions of the country, in two distinct fields, i.e.:

In the fields of technology (Automotive, electrical and electronics, metal)at a three-year advanced diploma level; and,
In the fields of agriculture (DA training at a diploma level on one hand, and short term training for local farmers on the other hosted by its pioneer Agroecology department

A total of 805 trainees had been graduated with certificates, diplomas, and advanced diplomas, while 900 farmers had been given tailor-made short term training until the new education and training policy came into effect, and eventually, the aforementioned certificate and diploma level training programs were phased out.
In lieu of its long-standing advanced diploma Technology programs and diploma agricultural programs and after fulfilling all the quality requirements of the ministry of education, ATTC has launched BSC applied for degree programs in its main fields of technology (Automotive, Electrical and electronics, and manufacturing )in 2006, And a year later, in the fields of agriculture (particularly in the area of crop production and animal production).
To date, a total of 270 trainees have been graduated from the college with BSC degrees in the aforementioned major fields.

Today our project areas cover approx. 57,000 km² This corresponds to about two-thirds of the total area of Austria. 9 of by now 20 integrated rural development projects have already been completed, and the responsibility for these projects in their entirety has been transferred to the population.
Our Austrian project areas
3 of currently 11 project areas are exclusively financed by donations from our supporters in Austria: Since 2011 and 2012 respectively, our project work in the neighboring regions of Ginde Beret and Abune Ginde Beret (with a total population of about 260,000 people) is made possible thanks solely to Austrian donations, as well as our project work in Jeldu (with a total population of about 256.000 people), which is located southward and where we started our work in 2017.
The first Austrian project area Derra was completed in 2010 and handed over to the population. We could thereby achieve our declared objective and develop an entire region so its inhabitants are independent of foreign aid.
Current project areas: challenges and achievements
After the completion of our work in Derra, we have used the resources thus freed to provide many other people in new regions with an independent future. In 2011 we started to implement our bundled measures in Ginde Beret (a region about 4.5 hours’ drive from the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa) together with the local population.
Since 2011 131,000 people in Ginde Beret benefit from our work. Find detailed information about the challenges and achievements in Ginde Beret here
From the start, the commitment of the population in Ginde Beret has been very high, which allowed us to include the neighboring region of Abune Ginde Beret in 2012 already. Here the project work is covered by the team responsible for Ginde Beret.
Since 2012 126,000 people benefit from the work of our experienced colleagues in Abune Ginde Beret.
With the RED Charity initiative, we have found a reliable partner whose unparalleled commitment secured funding of the first project stage in Abune Ginde Beret. We want to thank RED Charity for their trust in our work and substantial support.
In the first project phase (2017-2019) about 52.000 people living in the region Seriti Catchment, which includes seven districts (Kebeles), benefit from our work in Jeldu. Learn more about the challenges and achievements in Jeldu Because Jeldu is located southward to Abune Ginde Beret and Ginde Beret, the work of Menschen für Menschen is already well known. Within the first three years (2017-2019) we will implement projects in the field of agriculture, water, and health.
During the first project stage (2017-2019) development measures are being implemented in the Seriti Catchment. The Seriti Catchment comprises seven districts (Kebeles) of the Jeldu region and is home to around 52,000 inhabitants, one-fifth of the total population of Jeldu
Project Topics
All areas of life are closely interrelated – so are our projects
Our projects are never isolated from one another but always designed as an integrated whole. For this reason, we always develop entire project regions. Each of our areas of focus is important and brings essential improvements. But our work only unfolds its full strength once all measures are connected. That is when the whole becomes more than the sum of the individual components. And it is only then that sustainable success, which will continue and grow even without our assistance, is guaranteed.
helps millions of people
Karlheinz Böhm was Born on 16 March 1928 in Darmstadt, as the only son of the well-known conductor Karl Böhm and the singer Thea Linhard, Karlheinz Böhm is an Austrian citizen. He spent his youth first in Hamburg, then in Dresden. Due to a serious illness, he was in Switzerland from 1940 to 1945, continuing his education at the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz, a Swiss boarding school. From 1945 onwards, he lived with his parents in Graz, where he graduated in 1947 and started a graduate course in philosophy and philology at the University of Graz. An illness once again thwarted his plans and forced him to stay in Rome, where he made use of the opportunity to study the history of art for a term.
Although his parents arranged for him to take piano lessons at an early age, he was not interested in a musical career, but instead pursued his passion for directing and acting. So in 1948, he made an abrupt decision to go to Vienna, started work as a director’s assistant with Karl Hartl, and took acting lessons with the Burgtheater actor Albin Skoda. He got his first small film roles in shows like “Der Engel mit der Posaune” (1948) and “Haus des Lebens” (1952). In 1952 Arthur Rabenalt gave him the chance to show his talents in a leading role together with Hildegard Knef and Erich von Stroheim (“Alraune”). After this box-office hit, he acted in a number of entertaining films. He became hugely popular, in particular in his role as Emperor Franz Joseph at Romy Schneider’s side in the “Sissi” trilogy (1955-1957). In 1960, his role as Mark Lewis in Michael Powell’s eerie psychodrama “Peeping Tom” was in stark contrast to the image of the Emperor in the Sissi series. After several years of guest-starring in Hollywood in the mid-sixties, he turned more and more to the theatre in Europe and was involved in opera directing there, too. In 1964 he staged “Elektra” in Stuttgart, “Tosca” in Graz as well as “The Gypsy Baron” in Munich, and went on tour as “Chicken” in Tennessee Williams’ play “Kingdom of Earth” in 1971. At the beginning of the 1970s, he gave some excellent performances in character roles in the Rainer Werner Fassbinder productions “Martha” (1973), “Effi Briest” (1974), “Faustrecht der Freiheit” (1974) and “Mutter Küsters’ Fahrt zum Himmel” (1975). In the years that followed, Böhm was a member of the cast at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, playing King Lear to much acclaim, as well as in large theatres in Hanover, Basel, Zurich, Vienna, and Munich. But he became a household word to the majority of the public, primarily for his roles in such popular television series as “Ringstrassenpalais” (1980 and 1982) and “Die Laurents” (1981).
On 16 May 1981 during the German ZDF television channel’s programmer “Wetten, Dass…?”, as an acclaimed film star, Karlheinz Böhm made his now-legendary appeal to television viewers. This changed his life completely. At the time he made a bet that he would not manage to get “every third viewer to donate one Deutschmark, one Swiss franc or seven Austrian shillings for people in the Sahel region.” Böhm won his bet. However, in October 1981, he flew to Ethiopia for the first time with about 1.2 million Swiss francs and on 13 November 1981 founded the charity Menschen für Menschen, which he has spearheaded since then.
Bohn founded an aid organization Menschen für Menschen (“Humans for Humans”) in 1981 and started an active engagement in helping the less fortunate throughout Ethiopia. Karlheinz appeared on a TV show and had a bet that 1 in 3 viewers will contribute 1 German mark, 1 Austrian schilling, or 1 Swiss franc for starving people in the African Sahel. He won the bet and was able to collect enough amount of money to make his maiden trip to Ethiopia the same year to start his charitable work. Ever since then his organization has tremendously grown to devise projects that help millions in the areas of technical education, woman empowerment, health, infrastructure, and agriculture. In 1991 he married Ethiopian Almaz Böhm who took over the management of the charity for the past few years before quitting the position to take care of him after he fell ill. In the spring of 2013, it was announced that Böhm was suffering from Alzheimer’s. He has two kids aged 24 and 21 from his marriage with Almaz and five kids from an earlier marriage.
Karlheinz is well admired in Ethiopia for his charity work and has a square named after him in the capital city Addis Ababa in addition to the honorary citizenship he received in 2003
Menschen für Menschen works exclusively in Ethiopia and carries out long-term, sustainable projects for the rural population there. Following the principle of “support for self-development”, millions of Ethiopians have been given a secure future from the time it was founded to date. Several months a year, Karlheinz Böhm coordinates the programs locally, spending the rest of the year in Europe to publicize the causes of global poverty and the work of his foundation. Karlheinz Böhm receives no payment for his commitment to one of the world’s poorest countries.
The Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, paid tribute to Karlheinz Böhm in October 2003 by making him the first to receive honorary citizenship in his country.
With his Ethiopian wife Almaz (born in 1964), who has been vice president of the foundation board at Menschen für Menschen Switzerland and Liechtenstein since 1999, Böhm has two children, Nicolas (born in December 1990) and Aida (born in February 1993).

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