Ethiopia Rising is the story of how one man turned his barren environment into a lush Eden. For the last thirty years, Abu Hawi has fought tirelessly to protect the beautiful forests surrounding his village. Following the devastation of a long civil war, he planted over a million trees, mobilised an entire community to regenerate their environment and saved his village from certain extinction.
Ethiopia Rising is the story of how one man turned his barren environment into a lush Eden. For the last thirty years, Abu Hawi has fought tirelessly to protect the beautiful forests surrounding his village. Following the devastation of a long civil war, he planted over a million trees, mobilised an entire community to regenerate their environment and saved his village from certain extinction.