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Written by CyberEthiopia   
Friday, 22 May 2009
Abebe Gelaw with Jerry Yang
Gellaw, the 2008-09 Yahoo! International Fellow at Stanford this year, is an example of how one person with a great idea can make a difference.

Abebe is an Ethiopian journalist, but the regime in his home country is too repressive to allow true journalism, so he is in exile. He had been in London for years before coming to the U.S. as the Yahoo! International Journalism Fellow at Stanford.
 
Read more on Yahoo's Corporate Blog and watch the Video on YouTube
 
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