The EWF Local 111 has been privileged to have several
visits over the years from distinguished guests.
Guest
Visits
Queen Mother
Moore
Oueen Mother Moore was a
Black Civil Rights Activist in the US and visited
the local at Small Heath Community Centre in
1982.
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Shemilis Desta
1985
H.I.M Personal Photographer
presented large photo of H.I.M at the St Josephs
Centre. Saltley Birmingham to the
local.
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Anthony Mockler
July 1992
The local members met
the Oxford author of the best selling book: Haile
Selassie’s War. They also met Professor Robert Hill
of UCLA, Ethiopia.
Rabbi
Ford's Wife
In 1993, the
local President whilst in Washington D.C met Mignon
Lorraine Innis Ford, wife of Rabbi Ford co-author of the
Ethiopian anthem and members of U.N.I.A. The couple had
emigrated from Barbados to USA and moved to Ethiopia in
1931 before the outbreak of the Italian Ethiopian war.
Although Rabbi Ford died before the invasion, his wife
remained in Ethiopia during the Italian occupation.
After which, she established and run her own private
school in Addis Ababa up until her death in 1996. She
was one of the principle minds behind the creation of
the EWF Inc.
Mignon Lorraine Innis Ford
(Presidents meets Mrs Ford )
Pioneers
Introduction
The local made contact with the group of elders who
had remained in Ethiopia during the communist rule in
Ethiopia 1974-91. The Pioneers settlers were amongst the
first to settle on the land grant.
Original pioneers who settled in
Ethiopia in the early 60s.
