{"id":245797,"date":"2018-10-23T00:19:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T04:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=245797"},"modified":"2019-02-09T04:17:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T09:17:07","slug":"ethiopian-diaspora-trust-fund-kicked-off-worldwide-fundraising-campaign-raised-40000-in-12-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/245797","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund kicked-off worldwide fundraising campaign; raised $40,000 in 12 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund (EDTF) that was created by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during his United States trip last July has kicked-off its worldwide fundraising campaign on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>EDTF has raised $40,000 USD in 12 hours after the kickoff of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>EDTF chairman Prof. Al Mariam has told Mereja.com that the Prime Minister is asking a minimal contribution of $1 per day to help alleviate the multitude of problems facing Ethiopia. It gives everyone who supports the reform in Ethiopia the chance to help make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, EDTF accepts contributions via Paypal and GoFundMe by going to its website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethiopiatrustfund.org\/\">ethiopiatrustfund.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VIDEO<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QA2Vl2WTZ5Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen title=\"Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund (EDTF) Launches!\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund (EDTF) that was created by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during his United States trip last July has kicked-off its worldwide fundraising campaign on Monday. EDTF has raised $40,000 USD in 12 hours after the kickoff of the campaign. EDTF chairman Prof. Al Mariam has told Mereja.com that the Prime Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/PM-Abiy-Ahmed-in-Washington-DC.jpg?fit=1032%2C646&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-11Wt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245996,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245797\/revisions\/245996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}