MISS TOURISM QUEEN ETHIOPIA 2009

Fetihya Mohamemd is representing Ethiopia at Miss Tourism Queen in China from the 18-30th August 2008,
Miss Tourism Queen International was founded by Mr. Charlie See. Since 1949, there have been more than 80 countries occasionally holding this competition for their Miss Tourism National Queen. In 1993, the Miss Tourism Queen International Organization held the first world final competition in Sri Lanka, and later in USA, Russia, Brazil, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and many other countries as well. Miss Tourism Queen International contests has been held in China for six years from 2004 to 2009.
It has been licenced to the Ethiopian Life Foundation since 2003.

Ethiopis Millennium Queen is: BEST FEMALE MODEL WORLD 2009

Stunning Model and reigning Ethiopian Miss Millennium Queen: Kidan Tesfahun has won Best Female Model of the World 2009 at a contest held in Alicante Spain on 24th July 2009, organized by Sukier Models International
24 year old Model Kidan who stands 1.8 meters tall was crowned as Ethiopia's Miss Millennium Queen in 2007, and had previously represented Ethiopia at top Grand slam beauty pageants like Miss International 2008 and Miss Earth 2007 but has always personally favored modeling, “I Love to model how ever it is a pity that the modeling industry is not professional or well established back home, so aspiring models like my self cannot make a living out of want we like to do” she said in an interview. "Man proposes but God disposes" was also her philosophical approach the contest; it was her first trip to Europe after having previously travelled to: Manila the Philippines, Beijing China, Tokyo Japan, Brazzaville Congo and Libreville Gabon as part of her duties as Miss Millennium Queen of Ethiopia With this win she gets a modeling contract with a European modeling agency and full representation in Europe she will also have the opportunity to model the world over.
Plans are already under way to feature her in several Fashion weeks and other Global fashion shows next year in Greece, Italy and across Europe.

"From here on I guess the sky is the limit for me, I have gained the professional acceptance I always knew I should have, and I am indeed grateful to the Almighty Lord for guiding me and making my dreams come true" she concluded.
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Ethiopian Beauty bids for Glory

Teenage Ethiopia beauty queen Bewunetwa Abebe Has arrived in Beijing China along with 40 other beauties from around the world for the start of the 2009 International Beauty and Model festival.

Bewunetwa who was crowned Miss Teem Millennium Intercontinental, becomes the second teenage Ethiopian model from the Ethiopian Millennium pageant to represent Ethiopia at an international beauty pageant.

The event will last 3 weeks and Bewunetwa will be proudly flying the flag for Ethiopia.
Miss Teen Ethiopia beauty pageant is exclusively organised and owned by Beauties of Africa Inc under a licence from the Miss Tourism Global organisation and it is the only Teenage beauty pageant in Ethiopia offering opportunities for global travel to Ethiopian teens. The next edition will take place in August 2009.

Ethiopian Millennium Queens storm Asia

The Quartet of Ethiopian Millennium Queens once again have rounded out a very sucessful and exciting year promoting Ethiopia Globally

Kidan Tesfahun
Miss Millenium Queen
MISS EARTH 2008

Nardos Deasta
Miss Millennium World
MISS INTERNATIONAL 2008

Hizbayesh Amare
Miss Millennium Tourism
MISS BIKINI 2008

Megber Abebe

Miss Teen Konjo
MISS GLOBAL BEAUTY 2008

Miss Konjo @ Miss Global Beauty

Megber Abebe  "Miss Teen Konjo" Joins 56 other Beauties from around the World to battle it out for Miss Global Beauty Queen 2008.

 She becomes the 1st Teenager from the Miss Millenium Teen Pageant to Represent her Country at an International Event.

Ethiopian Millennium Queens get ready for Asia

Three Ethiopian queens have set their sights on Asian domination
Kidan Tesfahun and Nanrdos Deasta both Grand slam pageant veterans are joined by teenage sensation Megber Abebe who makes her international debut at Miss Global Beauty 2008.

Nardos Desta, [ Miss Millenium World ]
Miss International 2008

Japan

Kidan Tesfahun, [ Miss Millennium Queen]

Miss Earth 2008 Philippines

Megber Abebe, [ Miss Millennium Teen Konjo]

Miss Global Beauty Queen 2008

China

ETHIOPIAN QUEEN HEADS FOR SHANGHAI

Reigning Miss Millennium Tourism; Hizbayesh Amare is taking the world literally by storm again as she Jets out for yet another assignment to represent Ethiopia at Miss Leisure in China from 15th June – 2 July
Having previously represented Ethiopia in Miss Tourism of the Millennium and Miss Bikini 2007, Hizbayesh is looking forward to her trip with lots of excitement. She will be competing against a field of over 70 other girls, and we are sure she will do us proud as she has done before

Beauties of Africa Inc. and Miss Tourism Global Org are joint sponsors

MISS TOURISM OF THE MILLENNIUM II

Miss Tourism of the Millennium II is set for launch in the coming weeks with over 60 Countries expected to participate in this years event based on the interest generated from the inaugural event held in Ethiopia in October 2007.

The delegates will have an opportunity to sample different tourism attractions in Ethiopia and beyond as several other countries are also interested in co-hosting this year’s event.

Miss Millennium Queen Part of a World Record

Reigning Millennium Queen Kidan Tesfahun is Ethiopia's representative at Miss Tourism Queen Int. 2008 currently under way in China which concludes on the 12th April 2008.

Ethiopia's Queen of the Millennium is proudly flying the flag for Ethiopia by taking part in this record breaking event and taking centre stage for Ethiopia.

A record number of delegates from around the World are taking part and this contest now holds the world record with 115 delegates attending this years event thus surpassing even Miss World in popularity.
Several delegates from the recently held Miss Tourism of the Millennium Beauty pageant, the first ever International beauty pageant to be held in Ethiopia are ironically also taking part in this same event in China i.e. Miss Bahamas, Miss Congo, Miss Liberia, according to the foundation promoting, and sponsoring, Ethiopian women and girls in the outside world.

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Miss Millennium Tourism to visit DR Congo

Hizbayesh Amare: Miss Millennium Tourism

Reigning Miss Millennium Tourism Hizbayesh Amare is set to visit The Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the invitation of the President and Committee Miss Congo as part of their annual charity fund raiser.

This visit mirrors the recent visit to neighbouring Republic of Congo By Kidan Tesfahun, the reigning Miss Millennium Queen on the occasion of Miss Congo 2008, thus the Millennium Queen are fulfilling their mandates as Goodwill Ambassadors of Ethiopia and participating in multiple cultural exchanges both in Africa and outside Africa .

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Miss Millennium Queen Debuts at Miss Tourism Queen 2008

Reigning Millennium Queen Kidan Tesfahun will be Ethiopias representative at Miss Tourism Queen Int. 2008 due to be held in China from the 20th March – 12th April 32008.

A record number of delegates from around the World will be taking part in this years contest estimated to top 120 countries and Ethiopia’s Queen of the Millennium will be proudly flying the flag and take centre stage for Ethiopia

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MISS MILLENNIUM QUEEN AT MISS CONGO 2008

Beauties and the first Lady

Kelly Falco an 18 year old student was crowned Miss Congo 2008 on 23rd February 2008 in the lush gardens of the presidential villa in Brazzaville Congo, 18 Congolese beauties took part in the contest that saw Kelly eventually emerge as the winner. Her court of runners up included; 1st Dauphine Alicia Malanda 21 years old and 1.75m tall; 2nd Dauphine Grazzieitlia Issalet 18 year old 1.69m tall. All will compete in Miss Earth, Miss International and Miss Tourism Queen International courtesy of Beauties Of Africa Inc a major sponsor and partner.

Beauties at Dinner
Back stage with Miss Congo 2008

The event was graced with beauty queens from around the world such as: Miss Universe France 2008, Miss Millennium Queen [Ethiopia], M.B.G.N. World [Nigeria], Miss D.R Congo, Miss Rwanda, Miss Caribe-Hibiscus [Miss Curacao] Miss Rep of Congo 2008, won a brand new Car courtesy of His Excellency Denis Sassou Nguesso the President of Republic of Congo and over 10,000,000 CFA francs in cash and prizes from other sponsors.

Top 10

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BREAKING NEWS!!! Miss Millennium Queen® invited to Republic of CONGO by First Lady!

Kidan Tesfahun; Reigning Miss Millennium Queen® has been specially invited by Her Excellency Madame Antoinette Sassou, First lady of the Republic of Congo, as a guest of honour at the Miss Congo 2008 Beauty pageant. Also invited were Misses from France, Togo, Gabon, DR Congo, Nigeria and Ivory Coast.

And the invitation is a futher Strengthening of cultural exchanges between the Republic of Congo and Ethiopia that have been in existent in this field for the last 3 years between the Miss Congo Organisation and their Ethiopian counterpart.

It should be recalled that Miss Congo was also invited as a special Judge and Miss Millennium Queen and Miss Millennium Teen beauty pageants last year

MISS MILLENNIUM TOURISM™ STRIKES 2ce IN HONG KONG

Hizbayesh Amare; the reging Miss Millennum Tourism™ Queen of Ethiopia, bagged two titles at the recently concuded Miss Bikini International in Hong Kong.
Sultry Hizbayesh was making her second pageant apperance on behalf of Ethiopia and scoped tiltles in the best National Costume and Miss Charity categories.

In an exciting show beautifully choreographed by Daniel Cunningham, Miss Bikini International drew to a conclusion with surprising results: the winner was:

Venezuela's Lourdes Katherin Marquez, and her runner-ups are Czech Republic (2nd place), Gabriela Korinkova, Ukraine (3rd), Vlada Yevsyeyeva, Greece (4th), Dimitra Tania Papanikolaou, and Xu Yi Jun, China (5th).

MISS MILLENNIUM TOURISM™ HEADS FOR HONG KONG

Hizbayesh Amare: reigning Miss Millennium Tourism® has made her debut on the international stage as Ethiopians’ representative at the 34th Miss Bikini pageant scheduled to be held in China, she arrived in Hong Kong on the first part of her journey to vie for the crown, and will join over 50 other delegates on tours in and around Hong Kong before going to mainland China for the finals

Hzibayesh Recently got a first taste of international pageants with her representing Ethiopia at Miss Tourism of the Millennium® where she came 6th and won: Miss Press and Miss National Costume.

Hizbayesh has the distinction of being the only African at the pageant and will thus attract a lot of attention.
Hizbayeshs’ international debut marks the continuous tradition of the Ethiopian life foundation which is the only beauty pageant organiser in Ethiopia to consistently send its entire top 5 and in many years also girls from the top 10 to international Beauty pageants and as we all know this year being the Millennium year it is all them more significant that the Millennium queens all travel as Beauty Ambassadors, in this respect we remain unmatched as can be clearly demonstrated by the fact that

KIDAN: MISS MILLENUM QUEEN,
NARDOS: MISS MILLENIUM WORLD
HIZBAYESH: MISS MILLENNIUM TOURISM
EYERUSALEM: MISS MILLENNIUM INTERNATIONAL
SEMIRA: MISS MILLENNIUM INTERCONTINENTAL

Have all gone to an international pageant in the space of 3 months proudly flying the flag for Ethiopia

MISS VENEZUELA TRIUMPHS AT MISS TOURISM OF THE MILLENNIUM™

MISS TOURISM OF THE MILLENNIUM

Jennifer Schell

The first edition for Miss Tourism of the Millennium® concluded with Miss Venezuela winning the event, 37 delegates from around the world competed for the title.

MISS TOURISM OF THE MILLENNIUM® RESULTS


Tree planting in Ethiopia

MISS TOURISM OF THE MILLENNIUM® JENNIFER SCHELL VENEZUELA
1st RUNNER UP& MILLENNIUM QUEEN OF THE AMERICAS®SILVANA SANCHEZ COSTA RICA
2ND RUNNER UP & MILLENNIUM QUEEN OF AFRICA®KATISSA KOUTA REP OF CONGO
3RD RUNNER UP NORIKO ONOH JAPAN
4TH RUNNER UP PALESA MAKWA SOUTH AFRICA
REGIONAL QUEENS
MILLENNIUM QUEEN OF THE AMERICAS® SILVANA SANCHEZ: COSTA RICA MILLENNIUM QUEEN OF AFRICA®KATISSA KOUTA: REP OF CONGO
MILLENNIUM QUEEN OF ASIA®CHEZ SHETTY: INDIA
MILLENNIUM QUEEN OF THE CARIBBEAN®NERISSA IRVING: JAMAICA
MILLENNIUM QUEEN OF EUROPE® IVA ZUNIC: SERBIA
SPECIAL AWARD
MISS MILLENNIUM HERITAGE®EMAH MADEGWA: KENYA

TOP TEN IN RANDOM ORDER
RWANDA
CONGO
ETHIOPIA
INDIA
JAPAN
COSTA RICA
JAMAICA
VENEZUELA
CHINA
SERBIA
Other titles awarded:
MISS DISCO QUEEN Uganda 1RU Congo 2RU Bahamas
MISS CONGENIALITY China 1RUZimbabwe 2RU Japan
MISS BIKINI Estonia1RU Bulgaria 2RU Bahamas
MISS PHOTOGENIC Jamaica 1RU Ethiopia 2RU India
MISS TALENT Venezuela 1RU Latvia 2RU Congo
MISS PERSONALITY England 1RU Cameroon 2RU Costa Rica
MISS GOODWILL Bahamas 1RU Ethiopia 2RU Tanzania
MISS SMILE Cyprus1RU Scotland 2RU Somalia
MISS LOVELY Finland1RU Rwanda 2RU Latvia
MISS HAUTE COUTURE Nigeria1 RU Spain2RU Haiti
MISS FASHION Bosnia1RU Congo2RU Finland
MISS NATIONAL COSTUME Ethiopia1RU Japan2RU China
MISS CINEMAFYROM1RU Serbia2RU Argentina
Miss M.V.P.Somalia
MISS PRESS Ethiopia

The successful conclusion of Miss Tourism of the Millennium continues to send shock waves through the pageant world as many did not believe that Ethiopia could host such and event and were surprised to see that 37 countries actually came to Ethiopia many National Directors have express an eagerness to come to Ethiopia next year and at the moment we have over 72 countries applying to participate in the next Miss Tourism contest in Ethiopia.

The next edition will be opened up to the private sector to enable them to participate in the promotion of Ethiopia and several of the event that we were not able to hold due to time contestants will be held.

The Ethiopian life foundation is very pleased at the interest shown and it shows that Ethiopia can become a regular international pageant hosting nation just like China currently is.

MISS TOURISM OF THE MILLENNIUM: QUEENS ARRIVE IN ETHIOPIA

Contestants from around over 50 countries are expected to arrive to Addis Ababa for the Miss Tourism of the Millennium pagenat. Miss Tourism of the Millennium is one of many events scheduled for the Ethiopian Millennium celebrations which will last up to September 12, 2008. The Ethiopian Life Foundation is the exclusive franchise owner and organiser of this unique event. Courtesy call on H.E. The President of Ethiopia

The organizers of the Millennium celebrations have also set up a magazine for the pageant.

Mohamud Dirir, Minister of Tourism, said most of the contestants have already arrived from many counties.

Under the ever watchfull eye and professional direction of the President and National Director Andy Abulime, Ethiopia has faired well in various Top International beauty contests since 2003 when he single handedly brought the Beauty Pageant Industry to life in Ethiopia, and most recently particularly in competitions attributed to Tourism, this debut of his Internationsl pagent is a true testament to his unmatched dedication and love of promoting Ethiopia to the World.

Fun time at the Sheraton

A visit to Ethiopian Airline offices [our main Sponsors]

Breast Cancer event

MISS MILLENNIUM WORLD BIDS FOR MISS EARTH CROWN

18 year old Nardos Desta; Miss Millennium World becomes the 2007 Miss Earth Ethiopia Queen and flies to Manila to represent Ethiopia at Miss Earth 2007.

Ths year will see an expected 90 countries particpating in the event for the first time and Nardos is a favorite.

MISS MILLENNIUM QUEEN TAKES ASIA BY STORM

Kidan Tesfahun Ethiopia’s Millennium Queen and Goodwill Ambassador took to Tokyo Japan to take part in Miss International 2007, and this year marks the 5th straight year that Ethiopia is participating in this prestigious event.

At 1.80 M tall Kidan is also the tallest Ethiopian delegate at the event she will participate with 60 other delegates from around the world.

MISS MILLENNIUM INTERCONTINENTAL™ BAGS MISS TALENT IN KOREA

Seamira Yassin 4th runner up at our Miss Millennium Queen® pageant and the reigning "MISS MILLENNIUM INTERCONTINENTAL™" has followed in the foot steps of Tsigereda Alemayehu, last years delegate to this prestigious pageant and won "Miss Talent" at the 20th Miss World University Pageant in Seoul, South Korea.

47 countries took part in the pageant

KOREA BECKONS MISS MILLENNIUM INTERCONTINENTAL

Semira Yasin, Miss Millennium Intercontinental™ departs for Korea this week for the World Miss University pageant, over 40 countries are expected to take part in the pageant that brings University Students from around the World to Korea for the pageant and crowns a peace Ambassador every year.

MISS MILLENNIUM INT. BAGS BEAUTY OF AFRICA TITLE

Reigning Miss Millennium International: Eyerusalem Mulugetta further demonstrated that Ethiopian beauty is still respected and appreciated on the international pageant circuit by being crowned "Beauty of Africa" at the recently concluded Beauty of the World beauty contest held in China.

Eyerusalem was one of over 60 contestants taking part in this event and was sponsored by Mr Abulime the president of the Ethiopian Life Foundation.

Eyerusalem was the 3rd runner up at the recently held Miss Millennium Queen beauty pageant that was held at the Ethiopian National Theatre, that event was the only pageant of the pre millennium period and saw the crowning of the first ever Miss Teen Millennium along with her equally beautiful court.

Other Queens of the Miss Millennium Queens court are busy getting ready to make their international debuts:

Kidan Alemayehu Miss Millennium Queen® will depart for Tokyo Japan for Miss International 2007.

Nardos Desta Miss Millennium World® will be making her debut at Miss Earth in the Philippines.

Miss Millennium Tourism® debuts at Miss Intercontinental 2007 in the Indian ocean tropical paradise of the Seychelles and

Miss Millennium Intercontinental® debuts at Miss World University in Korea

Once again consistently demonstrating that the Ethiopian Life Foundations National pageant year after year is truly the pageant of multiple opportunities for it top Queens.

Miss Millennium International makes Intl debut

Eyerusalem Mulugeta, reigning Miss Millennium International has arrived in China on her international debut as an Ethiopian Millennium Ambassador of Goodwill,
Eyerusalem Mulugetta Reigning Miss Millennium International ® has begun her duties and marked her debut on the international stage as an Ethiopian Millennium Ambassador of Goodwill, by departing for China for an International beauty pageant, pageant was being conducted as part of efforts to promote Ethiopia to the out side world, in the context of the Ethiopian millennium celebrations.

Eyerusalem will be taking part in Miss Beauty of the World® which will feature contestants from over 60 countries of the world, Eyerusalem was the 3rd runner up from the Miss Millennium Queen® Beauty pageant recently held in Addis Ababa at the National Theatre.
The top 5 girls from the pageant will all like wise be attending several international and cultural events over the coming months as official Goodwill Millennium Ambassadors, tasked with promoting Ethiopian culture and awareness of the Ethiopian Millennium celebrations

Millennium Queens visit Childrens Library

The Millennium Queens as part of their community activities during the Millennium Festival of Beauty paid a visit to Shola childrens library In Addis Ababa, there they read stories for the kids and gave some gifts to the children

Beauties Checking out The books

Beauties with brains

Sweeties any one?

The Shola Children's Library: The Ethiopian Children's Book Center, renamed the Shola Children's Library in April 2004, is Ethiopia Reads's first project in Ethiopia. The Shola Children's Library has over 20,000 books donated from the United States and purchased in Ethiopia with a grant from the Presbyterian Women's Fund. The library originally opened in the basement of Yohannes' house then expanded to fill the whole building with additional tents set up in the yard to make space for all the children who come. Over 40,000 visits have been made to the library since its opening in April of 2003. Children from all over the neighborhood come to use the facilities to study, do their homework or escape with a good book. The helpful Ethiopia Reads staff is always avaliable for assistance. This is the first free library service for children in Addis Ababa and, according the the principal of the neighborhood school, an indispensable resource.

ETHIOPIAN MILLENNIUM QUEENS CROWNED

THE 5 ETHIOPIAN MILLENNIUM QUEENS

For the second consecutive year the Ethiopian life Foundation and it's pageant production company Beauties of Africa Inc. the leading producers of beauty pageants in Ethiopia with full support of The Ethiopian Ministry of Culture and Tourism, produced two remarkable pageants at the prestigious Ethiopian National Theatre that saw the Crowning of the Official Ethiopian Millennium Queens, and Goodwill Ambassadors of Beauty, this years show was all the more important and remarkable because September 11th marks the celebration of the Ethiopian new Millennium and so on August 7 th a befitting Queen and her court were carefully selected from 17 delegates to carry the message to the four corners of the Globe as Official Millennium Queens and Ambassadors.

1st QUEEN

MISS MILLENNIUM QUEEN ®

Kidan Gebregziabher

23yrs 1.80m

2nd QUEEN

MISS MILLENNIUM WORLD ®

Nardos Tafese

18yrs 1.77m

3rd QUEEN

MISS MILLENNIUM TOURISM ®

Hizbayesh Amare

25yrs 1.72m

4th QUEEN

MISS MILLENNIUM INTERNATIONAL ®

Eyerusalem Mulugeta

23yrs 1.75m

5th QUEEN

MISS MILLENNIUM INTERCONTINENTAL ®

Semira Yasin

21yrs 1.70m

In another first, Miss Millennium Teen and her equally beautiful court were also crowned on the previous night in a similarly well produced pageant, MISS MILLENNIUM TEENSAmongst the preliminary and final judges for both pageants were: Miss D.R. Congo. Miss Rep of Congo. Miss Sudan.Miss International Kenya

MISS MILLENNIUM TEEN®

Gelila Woldeyohannes

18yrs 1.71 MISS MILILLENNUM TEENS

The Ethiopian Millennium Festival of Beauty will culminate with the first ever international beauty pageant scheduled to be held in Ethiopia from the 20 th October. Miss Tourism of The Millennium which is excepting 50 countries to participate, and will provide an opportunity to take the International Queens to the undiscovered heart of Ethiopia. Just as in previous years the top 5 Queens from the Ethiopian Millennium Pageant, will attend all the major Beauty pageants the Ethiopian Life Foundation holds the exclusive franchisees to.

Miss Ethiopia® magazine launched for the Millenium Festival of Beauty

In another first for Ethiopia, the Organisers of the Millenium Festival of Beauty have published a special magazine for the show, which details the programme of events and the history of the pageant over the last 5 years.

It is a full colour glossy magazine that further demonstrates a serious commitment by the organization to the beauty industry in Ethiopia, simply called Miss Ethiopia® magazine, it features Ferehiyewot Abebe the first Ethiopian to go to Miss Universe® on the cover of the magazine and future editions will be published quarterly to give young Ethiopians both at home and in the Diaspora a chance to read first hand the often untold stories of pageant's in Ethiopia, and what happens to our Goodwill ambassadors when they go out to international events.

Subscriotions are available by email: subscriptions@missethiopia.com

3500 Judges to Vote for Miss Millennium Teen® and Miss Millennium Queen®

The Millennium Festival of Beauty are pleased to announce that over 3500 "Judges" will be specially invited to vote for the finalist of Miss Millennium Queen® and Miss Millennium Teen® pageants next week, to give people a say in the selection of the Ethiopian Queens of the New Millennium.

In the first of it is kind for an Ethiopia beauty Pageant, over 3500 Ethiopians in the Diaspora will be emailed links to the web site featuring the finalists and be invited to vote online for "Miss Photogenic", The top 5 delegates from this online vote will then automatically receive bonus point that can make them enter the top 10 of each contest.
In an unprecedented move and another first for a beauty pageant in Ethiopia , Six African National beauty Queens are expected to judge both contests and 4 of them:

· MISS TOURISM SUDAN,
· MISS TOURISM DR CONGO,
· MISS TOURISM REP OF CONGO &
· MISS TOURISM ZAMBIA

Were recently in Addis Ababa under the sponsorship of the Ethiopian life foundation on their way to China and met with the 36 delegates, observed their preparations and will be formally assessing them shortly on their return from a trip to China.

This year also is also expected to feature a "Mr Millennium" contest albeit a bit later on in the year but still in time for the planned special International beauty contest scheduled for Addis Ababa in early September which will feature over 50 countries.

Queens of Ethiopia

Tisgereda Alemayehu makes it a 3-peat

Sultry beauty and International Model; Tsigereda Alemayehu rounded out a historic year for the Ethiopian Life Foundation by attending her 3rd international beauty contest in 2006: Face of the Universe in Ghana, and with her participation in this event makes it an unprecedented third year in a row that girls from the Miss Universe Ethiopia® pageant have attended 10 or more International beauty pageants.

Tsigereda participated in the 2006 World Miss University pageant in Seoul. South Korea where she won Miss photogenic and a scholarship, and then it was off to Miss Bikini 2006 in China, before rounding out her year with Face of the Universe where she was 1st runner up: Face of the Universe -AFRICA

Since 2004 when the first Miss Universe Ethiopia® pageant was held, won by Ferehiyewot Abebe the top winners from this pageant have always gone to all the top international beauty pageant all over the world as a reward for their participation.

No other pageant Organisation in Ethiopia has such a record of success, and we would like to take this opprtunity to thank all our Queens who did their patriotic duty and proudly represented Ethiopia at the biggest and best beauty pageants in the world over the last 3 years.

2007 promises to be an even bigger and better year, and we Proudly look forward to the new Queens of Ethiopias Millennium flying the flag in 2007

Miss Earth 2006

Dina Fekadu participates in the evening gown segment of Miss Earth 2006 in Manila the Philippines, wearing yet another spectacular evening gown designed by top Fashion designer Ramon Esteban, Ramon has become the designer of choice for the MUE organisation, as exhibited by his string of exquisite commissioned creations for Dina’s pageants.

He designed the evening and presentation gowns for her Miss Universe 2006 contest and repeated the task for Miss Earth 2006.

Beauty pageants have become a rapidly growing industry in Ethiopia over the last few years led by the Ethiopian Life Foundation and its representation of Ethiopia at the majority of International pageants, and it offers Fashion designers and Local artisans a huge opportunity to showcase their talents and most importantly Ethiopian culture.

Ethiopian beauty wins Miss Photogenic

Miss Photogenic @ Miss University [in yellow dress]

Tsigereda Alemayehu the 4th place Queen from this years Miss Universe Ethiopia pageant had made a successful debut to her international modelling career by clinching Miss Photogenic at the recently concluded 2006 World Miss University® pageant held in Seoul, South Korea, she was selected from 50 delegates as the most photogenic candidate, and it is ironic that she was also voted Miss photogenic at the 2006 Miss Universe® Ethiopia pageant. Tsigereda will be the proud recipient of an educational scholarship from the organisers to further her education.

Tsigerada’s victory round’s out a very successful year for the girls from Miss Universe® Ethiopia pageant, from Tokyo to Hong Kong to Seoul to Los Angeles to Beijing to Shanghai to Manila in the Philippines these young Ambassadors of Ethiopian beauty and Culture have been to more intentional pageants than all other contests organisers put together in Ethiopia and solidifies the position of the pageant as the pre eminent pageant or choice for young girls in Ethiopia looking for an opportunity to travel Model and see the World.

Ethiopian beauty Queens Storm Asia

Miss Universe Ethiopia 2006
DINA FEKADU

4 Ethiopian Beauty Queens from the 2006 Miss Universe® Ethiopia pageant have taken Asia by storm and have launched a tidal wave of publicity there promoting Ethiopina culutre and the Forthcoming Ethiopian Millennium celebrations due to take place in 2007.

The 4 Queens are all expected to proudly represent Ethiopia in different events throughout the month of November are

DINA FEKADU

AT MISS EARTH® 2006
FETIHYA MOHAMMED

AT MISS INTERNATIONAL® 2006
TSIGEREDA ALEMAYEHU

AT WORLD MISS UNIVERSITY® 2006
MEHRET GIRMAY

AT TOP MODEL OF THE WORLD® 2006

The Miss Universe Ethiopia organisation under the Ethiopian life foundation is the largest promoter of Ethiopian culture through these means and continues to solidify its dominant position and provide Global exposure for so many young Ethiopian girls to see the world and make new friends. Next year will mark the 5th anniversary of its first pageant in Ethiopia

Dina Fekadu Bids for Miss Earth Crown

Miss Earth poses for photographers flanked by the other finalists of the Miss Earth 2005 beauty pageant, which was held in Quezon City, Philippines in 2005.
From left to right: Miss Fire (Jovana Marjanovic, 18, Serbia & Montenegro), Miss Earth (Braun Waldeck, 22, of Venezuela, the overall winner), Miss Air (Amell Santana de Jesus, 19, of The Dominican Republic), and Miss Water (Katarzyna Borowicz, 20, of Poland).

Dina Fekadu; the reigning Miss Universe® Ethiopia 22006 has set her sights on wining the 2006 Miss Earth® title and she has departed for manila in the Philippines to vie for the crown against 81 other beauties from a round the world
Miss earth is the 3rd biggest pageant in the world and focuses on the environmental cause hence beauties for a cause,

Dina will be in the Philippines for 3 weeks and be actively involved in environmental protection as awareness proportion with several high profile events planned to coincide with the pageant.
This will be Dinas third trip to Asia, it should be recalled that she took part in Miss international® 2005 in Japan and Miss Tourism® International 2005 in Malaysia last year as the reigning Miss Tourism® Ethiopia 2005

Miss Haute Couture 2006 debuts at Miss Intercontinental 2006

The 2006 Miss Intercontinental® delegates at Atlantis hotel in the Bahamas
[Mehrete is first from the left in the lime green dress]

Mehrete Girmay, who clinched a top 10 spot, and won "Miss Haute Couture 2006" at the 2006 Miss Universe® Ethiopia pageant this April, made her international Pageant debut at the 2006 Miss Intercontinental® pageant held in the Caribbean paradise of the Bahamas.

Mehrete along with 45 other contestants from around the World were treated to Caribbean hospitality and enjoyed the sights and hospitality of the Caribbean.

The Miss Intercontinental® pageant represents the latest franchise acquired by the Ethiopian Life Foundation and executed by Beauties of Africa Inc a pageant production and promotion company which aims to provide multiple platforms for young African girls to promote their countries at these sort of events all over the World.

Delegates at Dolphin beach

MISS UNIVERSE MODEL SHINES IN KOREA AND CHINA

Miss Gloal Beauty 2006

Helen Teferra a seasoned model from the Miss Universe Ethiopia ® organisation has done Ethiopia proud by recently participating in INTERNATIONAL MODEL OF THE YEAR 2006 where she was selected as 2nd runner up and MISS GLOBAL BEAUTY QUEEN 2006 in Shanghai where she also made the top 15.

While Helen was in Korea, as the only delegate from Africa she was specially honoured as a Goodwill peace ambassador for Africa, and called on to make a special speech about her country in front of an audience of dignitaries such as government officials and diplomats at a special dinner held for the delegates

So far this year Mr Andy and the Ethiopian life foundation has sent delegates to 4 International pageants Dina Fekadu to Miss Universe 2006 where she won Miss Universe Africa, and made the top 20, Semgin Arega to Miss Tourism Queen International 2006, and Helen Teferra to International Model of the year and Miss Global Beauty 2006.

October will prove to be yet a very busy one for the girls from the Miss Universe Ethiopia Organisation as:

Dina Fekadu,[ Miss Universe Ethiopia 2006]
Fetihya Mohammed, [2nd runner up and new Miss Tourism Ethiopia 2006]
Tsigereda Alemayehu, [4th runner up]
Mehrete Girmay[Top 10 ]

Will all be taking part in variousTop International pageants and Model contests, proudly representing Ethiopia all across the world, once again proving the there are Global Travel Opportunities, consistency and continuity for these girls working with the Ethiopian Life Foundation.

Next year will see the hosting of the biggest beauty pageant ever in the history of Ethiopia by the EthiopianLife Foundation, over a week long period multiple different queens will be selected

To register for the 2007 contest all models should send an email and their details to thelifefoundation@gmail.com


Stage Photo attached [ Helen Teferra is 7th from the left]

Fetihya Mohammed [aka] "Miss Lovely" goes to Miss International 2006

Fetihya Mohammed 2nd runner up at the Miss Universe® Ethiopia 2006 pageant and “Miss Lovely”™ 2006 has arrived in Tokyo Japan at the start of the 2006 Miss International pageant,
This year’s pageant will be taking Place in both Japan and Beijing China, and 61 delegates from around the world are in attendance.

This year marks the 4th straight year that Ethiopia has participated in this very important event under the sponsorship of the Ethiopian life foundation, more so because it is an opportunity for Fetihya to promote not only Ethiopian culture but the Ethiopian Millennium to the world at the event, and that is her mandate from her managers.

We feel that it is never too early to promote the fort coming Ethiopian celebrations and see this participation as great platform to launch it and tell the world about it.

Miss International is the 4th biggest pageant in the World and has been held for the last 46 years and participation in this pageant is traditionally reserved exclusively for the reigning Miss Tourism Ethiopia® queen, thus with her participation Fetihya officially assumes the office and title of Miss Tourism Ethiopia 2006 and will execute this office till the next pageant in 2007

QUEEN OF ETHIOPIA IS Top 20 at MISS UNIVERSE

Dina Fekadu, Miss Universe Ethiopia® 2006 and The founder and President of Beauties of Africa Inc: Mr Andy Abulime have once again Stunned the world, by clinching a top 20 spot at this years Miss Universe® pageant and can now proudly boast the title of “top 20 at Miss Universe 2006”. At the shrine Auditorium in Hollywood Los Angeles on Sunday 23rd July, Dina who was representing Ethiopia for the 3rd successive year at the Miss Universe® pageant was finally honoured as one of the 20 most beautiful delegates at this year's Miss Universe® pageant, and the only African delegate to be chose as a semi finalist. This was Dina's fist trip to the United States and she comes back with the full and unequivocal endorsement of the Miss Universe® organisation as one of the to 20 most beautiful girls in the Universe, this was in spite of the tough time she and her manager were given this year in their goal to promote Ethiopian beauty.

Miss Universe® is the most glamorous pageant in the Universe and is the crown jewel in the many pageant franchises owned by Beauties of Africa Inc.Miss Universe 2006 was shown live to over 170 countries and almost 1.6 billion people. Dina’s win finally puts Ethiopia on the beauty pageant map after Ferehiyewot Abebe: Miss Universe Ethiopia 2004, and Atetegeb Tesfaye: Miss Universe Ethiopia 2005’s participation and is an official endorsement of Ethiopian beauty. Dina will now spend an extra week in Los Angeles, and returns to Addis this weekend.

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Dina Fekadu on a Mission to win Miss Universe crown

Dina Fekadu A.K.A. Miss Universe Ethiopia 2006, will be taking center stage in Hollywood California at the world famous Shrine auditorium this Sunday 23rd July, for the 2006 grand finals of the Miss Universe® pageant. Dina has been rehearsing along with a record breaking 86 other girls, the race for the title of Miss Universe® 2006 comes to a head at the world famous Shrine auditorium famous for hosting the American Oscars and estimated 6500 VIP's and Hollywood celebrities will pack the auditorium and an even bigger crowd of 1.6 billion viewers in over 177 countries will watch the event in a live Global telecast from Los Angeles.

Dina is equipped with a Haute couture gown specially made for her, it is a Lovely green dress encrusted with semi precious and light reflecting stones to give a brilliant sparkle on stage to match Dina’s radiant smile, it was specially desigend, hand made and flown into Hollywood for her from the Philippines and it is the most expensive dress any delegate from Ethiopia has ever worn to a pageant.

The National Director Mr Abulime said “We have to match what other countries are doing to ensure we have a positive result, we cannot afford to ever settle for second best for the Queens of Ethiopia at such events, it is not just about the girl who must be beautiful and charming, but her wardrobe is also very important, and this is what we have trying to impress upon many local Ethiopian designers, This is a huge platform that can open up doors for young Ethiopian designers who seek global fame and fortune as well, even Ethiopia’s being at Miss Universe® for the 3rd successive year is impressive enough, but to crack the top 20 this year with Dina is not in doubt, We are however here to win and bring back the crown for Ethiopia and are ready to do battle with the best of the best in the World and Dina has a 1 in 86 chance ”

Dina earlier got to meet Billionaire Donald Trump at a special garden party held in honor of the delegates to this years Miss Universe® pageant and if she wins the title on Sunday night, her life will instantly be transformed as she will be living in one of his penthouses in New York for the duration of her reign. whilst traveling the World and an ambassador

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DINA PARTIES WITH THE STARS IN HOLLYWOOD

Dina and Miss Universe girls in Hollywood with top a fashion deigner

Dina Fekadu: Miss Universe-Ethiopia® 2006 was treated to a special start studded party in Hollywood, California where she is representing Ethiopia at the 2006 Miss Universe pageant this past Saturday, her and the 85 other delegates were special guests at a celebrity party and basket ball game and the hottest stars in Hollywood were out in full force to party with the girls,
Stars that put in appearances included rappers Snoop Doggy Dog, Usher, LIL Bow Wow, and Basketball legend Magic Johnson to mention just a few,

It was a very exciting time for all the girls to meet their favourite entertainers in real life and autographs and photos were exchanged.
Dina arrived in Los Angeles last Friday after a long flight via Amsterdam on KLM Airways and was picked up at the airport by a sleek long black stretched limousine, and immediately whisked to the 5 star Beverly Hills grand hotel famous for it celebrities who come to have dinner there, where she and the 80 something other beauty queens from around the world are staying for the 3 weeks event.

Next on the list is the Aids candlelight vigil held in memory of the Aids victims and followed by a charity gift auction, Ethiopia’s gift this year as a long black Traditional Kabba which is expected to easily fetch over $3000 and the proceeds will go to charity.

This year makes it 3 consecutive years that Ethiopia has participated in the annual Miss Universe® contest under the exclusive sponsorship and direction of the Ethiopian life foundation that provides a huge platform every year for 80+ of the most beautiful girls in the world to represent their countries on the world’s biggest stage, and Ethiopia is one of only 7 African countries taking part in the 2006 Miss Universe® contest.

For the winner a fantasy lifestyle and dreams will come true for her, as she gets to live the highlife and champagne life rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous with an exclusive 5th avenue apartments and travel the world, Dina is a very highly rated contender this year and has previously been called Too hot to handle” by some of the experts. Over 1.6 billion TV viewers will watch the finals and see Dina go for the ultimate beauty crown

In other related news Semgen Artega a runner up at the 2006 Miss Universe Ethiopia® pageant recently retuned from her debut trip to China at the 2006 Miss Tourism Queen contest

ETHIOPIAN BEAUTY ARRIVES IN CHINA

Simgen Arega one of the top five Finalist from this years Miss Universe Ethiopia® contest has arrived safely in China for the start of her role as an Ambassador for Ethiopia, she will be participating in the 2006 Miss Tourism Queen International contest, over 85 countries are participating in this event and the girls will be touring China and visiting many exciting places, and the finals will be screened live to over 500 Million people.

Miss Tourism Queen International Pageant is a platform that allows different nations a chance to promote their country and Siemgen will be proudly promoting Ethiopia at this event, she has several very nice Ethiopian cultural dresses to show the people and will also take part in many events aimed at showcasing Ethiopia. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has also given her their blessing and support by giving her some materials about Ethiopia to take to the event that will help to promote Ethiopian culture and Tourism.

Simgens trip is the first to almost 15 trips that girls from the Miss Universe Ethiopia organisation will be making all under the exclusive sponsorship of the Ethiopian life foundation, several more trips are planned in the coming months to: Miss Tourism of the Globe® 2006, Miss Tourism Planet® 2006, Miss Tourism International® 2006 and many more, and as in previous years, no other beauty contest or anybody in Ethiopia does this or can offer these opportunities for anyone, or dedicates so much time and energy to this sort of positive promotion of Ethiopia.

This year the organisation also sponsored delegates from Kenya, Uganda and Republic of Congo to the same contest in a sign of their shift towards boarding their horizons and entering into new partnerships and alliances with other African countries who also appreciate their efforts and as part of a wider inter African collaborationv initiative.

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MISS UNIVERSE ETHIOPIA, MISS UNIVERSE ETHIOPIA,

MISS UNIVERSE ETHIOPIA 2006

Dina Fekadu Miss Universe Ethiopia 2006

In a spectacular show held for the first time ever since his Imperial Majesty Emperor Hailie Selalsie's time at the Ethiopian National theatre on 14th April 2006, Dina Fekadu, a 21-year old philosophy student was selected as Miss Universe Ethiopia® 2006 and will proudly represent Ethiopia at the 2006 Miss Universe pageant. She becomes only the 3rd girl from Ethiopia to go to Miss Universe and her National Director has high hopes for her this year.The unprecedented event at the Ethiopian National Theatre was witnessed by an almost sold out crowd of over 1000 guests including diplomats, dignitaries and entertainers it was the biggest beauty pageant ever to be held in the history of Ethiopia, staff at the theatre commented that never before has the National Theatre been so packed with people to se a show, and finally cements the Miss Universe® brand and its National Director Mr Andy Abulime in the minds of the citizens of Ethiopia as the undisputed market leader for the elaborate stage shows and choreographed show that was put on. And this takes pageantry in Ethiopia to a new level


The 2006 "Miss Universe Ethiopia pageant week" kicked of with a free fashion show held and London café, followed but a visit to the Ethiopian Book club for Childrens foundation where the girls read stories for the young children,

http://www.ethiopiareads.org/missuniverse.html

Then it was the turn for the National costume and evening gown presentation shows that featured a musical journey round Ethiopia and elegant costumes this culminated with the grand finale held the next day.


23 girls took part in the event and 20 other international pageants await the girls from Ethiopia this year including Miss Earth®, Miss International®, and Miss Intercontinental® and many more and so once more the organisation is proudly leading the way in the promotion of Ethiopian culture at so many events on a global scale yet to be rivalled by any other organisation.
The event was proudly sponsored by Coca Cola.

Miss Universe® this year is being held in Los Angeles California

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MISS UNIVERSE-ETHIOPIA® 2006 pageant SET TO ROCK, SHOCK AND ENTERTAIN ADDIS

Organizers of the forth coming 3rd annual Miss Universe-Ethiopia® pageant are delighted to reveal plans to “Rock” “Shock” and “Entertain” residents of Addis Ababa with their trademarked “Pageant Week” show this year.

The organizers have announced plans for a blockbuster production even bigger than last year’s theatrical production. Miss Model of the World Ethiopia 2005 Tizitia Ababe and Miss Nations Ethiopia 2005 Fethiya Mohammed; both veterans of previous Miss Universe-Ethiopia pageants are the main individual responsible for the local arrangement and they are putting the skills they learnt in China from their international participation into practice with the local girls, they will be putting on 3 separate show with a view to mimicking as closely as possible the actual Miss Universe® experience the winner will experience, so she is well prepared for the rigorous us 3 week it involves, the Rock, Shock and Entertain theme is a reference to the three shows which will provide some very exciting entertainment for Addis residents. Special musical performances are all part of the shows

24 beautiful girls ranging in age from 19 to 24 and height from 1.65m to a mind boggling 1.86M have been selected and they are current going thru the various preparation stages. Various outings and training will also be part of the pageant week to prepare the girls to get used to the attention of being in the public spotlight. this year show see the addition of the title of “Miss Intercontinental-Ethiopia 2006” to the already extensive collection of international reputable pageants girls from this organization will be attending and proudly promoting Ethiopia.

Pageant Week™ 2006 will see the girls supporting The Ethiopian Books for Children and Educational Foundation buy taking part in “BOOK WEEK” where the 24 girls will be reading for young underprivileged children in a local library please visit http://www.ethiopiareads.org/

Organizers are also delighted to be including more local fashion designers in this years competition” we feel very strongly that this prestigious event can provide a wonderful platform for our local fashion designers to reach a global audience, and millions of people will see their dresses on the girls just as in previous years” organizers state “We have always had an open door policy and actively encourage young Ethiopian designers to get involved with eh project and we hoe that the time has come when they will se the benefits of such an association.

The winner will receive from sponsors and partners amongst other things: Apple I-pod, Gift collections from Victoria’s secret Lingerie , Motorola phones, L’Oreal Paris Hair care & cosmetics and the all important trip to Miss Universe 2006.

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EUROPE BIDS TO HOST MISS ETHIOPIA-WORLD® PAGEANT

Miss Ethiopia-World 2005

Jiitu Abraham

The much acclaimed Miss Ethiopia-World ® beauty pageant has been revamped and is being taken to a higher lever by the exclusive owners and organisers.

The Ethiopian Life Foundation is pleased to announce the development as part of an overall objective of sustaining the pageant and providing opportunities for young Ethiopians where ever they live to proudly represent Ethiopia at international events, the 2006 Miss Ethiopia-World ® pageant will now be held in Europe later on in the year, cities short listed to host the pageant are:

Paris

Rome

London

The United States is also being considered. The organising committee will be visiting the cities in question to meet with Ethiopian community leaders and Ethiopian businesses to evaluate the overall suitability of each city to host the event.

Upgrading the Miss Ethiopia World® pageant to an international pageant creates the first and only international Ethiopian pageant, and it will be open to all Ethiopians regardless of where they live, and it is seen as an alternative for young Ethiopians who live in the United States and particularly Europe to participate in an international pageant for the right to represent Ethiopia at several international pageants.

The move is expected to further consolidate the position of the organisers as the premier pageant organisers of repute for young Ethiopians. It should be recalled that Miss Ethiopia-World® was the first truly national pageant ever held in Ethiopia in modern times back in 2003, where the top 3 winners all went to international pageants, Miss Ethiopia-World® created the first HIV and goodwill ambassador in Ethiopia and she was a spokesperson for the aims and objectives of the Ethiopian life foundation.

Miss Ethiopia-World® was merged with the Miss Universe-Ethiopia® pageant in 2004 and has been traditionally awarded to the first runner up at the Miss Universe-Ethiopia pageant. Organisers now feel the time is right for Miss Ethiopia-World® to once again be held as a separate contest as an opportunity for many young Ethiopians who live outside Ethiopia to participate in international contests

The Miss Ethiopia-World® 2006 pageant promises to be more than just another pageant but to showcase the best and brightest Ethiopian talent and culture, in an elaborate stage show, top selling Ethiopian singers are also expected to be in attendance and the show is expected to be broadcast on TV in the United States and Europe to an audience of over 80 million households.

London has emerged as a favourite to host the pageant, but Paris and Rome are still being considered, the key will as in most cases be sponsorship, as we would like to provide a warm and hospitable environment of all the delegates durring their week long stay in the host city.

All well meaning Ethiopian businesses and individuals are urged to contact us for further details of how they can be part of this ground breaking event.

MISS MODEL OF THE WORLD ETHIOPIA 2005

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Ethiopian Beauties set to Tour China

Helen Tefera “Miss Konjo 2005” and Tizita Abebe two models from the Miss Universe Ethiopia Organisation are set to embark on separate tours of China this week, taking part in various cultural and beauty pageants.
Helen Tefera will be participate in International Tourism Queen 2005

Miss Konjo Ethiopia 2005

Helen Tefera

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Tizita Abebe will be making her international debut at Hong Kong in TOP MODEL OF THE WORLD 2005. Top Model of the World is an opportunity for top models from around the world to meet with top fashion designers and industry insiders in an elaborate fashion showcase to be shown to over 500 million TV viewers.

Top Model of the World Ethiopia 2005

Tizita Abebe

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It is the second time that Ethiopia is participating in TOP MODEL OF THE WORLD and also very ironic that Tizitas Younger sister: Ferehiyewot Abebe “Miss Universe Ethiopia 2004” was the first Ethiopian Girl to participate in this contest and so Tizita has a hard job of following in Ferehiyewot’s footsteps in the same contest, but she is determined and hard working and is expected to do very well, Beauty runs in their family like in most Ethiopian families MISS UNIVERSE ETHIOPIA 2004

Ferehiyewot Abebe

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Helen Tefera will be making her second trip to China for a beauty contest, she will be proudly represent Ethiopia at her contest also organised in China and dedicated to promoting tourism to a global audience of millions of TV viewers.

The two young ladies were specially chosen by the National Director for their determination and professional approach to modelling and fashion, and the opportunity will unquestionably open up more international doors for them, and reaffirms the organisations commitment to providing universal opportunity for young Ethiopians in the field of beauty and modelling

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MISS TOURISM-ETHIOPIA® TO OPEN AICHI EXPO 2005 IN JAPAN

Dina Fekadu the reigning Miss Tourism-Ethiopia® 2005, is expected to be one of the specially invited VIP guests due to open a spectacular cultural show at the 2005 WORLD EXPO in Tokyo. Japan, as part of the 2005 Miss International® contest, being held in Tokyo Japan. Dina’s participation and Ethiopia’s invitation was secured by the president of the Ethiopian life foundation and the miss Universe-Ethiopia organization, as part of his strategic and dynamic mission of promoting Ethiopia at top international cultural events. It will be her first trip to Japan and is another milestone in her career as an Ethiopian Tourism and Cultural Ambassador. Over 140 countries are being represented at the expo and the Ethiopian and world famous fossil “Lucy” is also being exhibited at the Expo for the first time.Miss International® is one of the biggest international pageants in the world with an audience of over 800 million TV viewers this is another wonderful opportunity for Ethiopian culture to take centre stage and it is the third straight year that Ethiopia is proudly being represented at the event by a delegate from the Ethiopia Life Foundation, and Miss Universe-Ethiopia Org.

A formal press conference was held on the 12th in Tokyo Japan attended by the special delegates including our own Miss Tourism-Ethiopia 2005 Dina Fekadu.

Dina Fekadu was crowned Miss Tourism-Ethiopia® 2005 after coming 2nd runner up at the 2005 Miss Universe-Ethiopia® pageant in March of this year, her previous journey as a Tourism Ambassador took her to Malaysia, and MISS TOURISM INTERNATIONAL 2005 where she was crowed Miss Goodwill 2005

MORE INFO ON THE WORLD EXPO IS BELOW

http://www.global-village.expo2005.or.jp/en/index.html

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MISS TOURISM-ETHIOPIA 2005 TRIUMPHS IN MALAYSIA

Miss Tourism- Ethiopia 2005 Dina Fekadu has triumphed over adversity by being crowned Miss Goodwill 2005 at the Miss Tourism Intercontinental contest held in Malaysia last Saturday, with the other 30 contestants for the ultimate title of Miss Tourism Intercontinental 2005

Dina Fekadu, who was the 2nd runner up and crowned "Miss Tourism-Ethiopia 2005" at the 2005 Miss Universe-Ethiopia pageant in March this year, was attending her first international pageant and proudly represented her country to the best of her ability and is a testament to her positive attitude and dogged determination that despite the setbacks she faced she was still able to win a title, Dina Fekadu fly’s back to Addis Ababa and can proudly hold her head high in the knowledge that she did a great job for Ethiopia, Dina now gets a few weeks rest and immediately stars her preparations for her debut at Miss International 2005 being held in Tokyo Japan at the 2005 World EXPO in September, Miss International is the 4th biggest beauty pageant in the world, and the Ethiopian life foundation which owns the licence for Ethiopia is very optimistic about her chances at the contests this year. More so because the pageant is being organised in conjunction with the 2005 Expo in Japan and is a wonderful chance to show Ethiopia’s culture to the world again.

Dina has shown that a positive mental attitude is also required to win international contests, not just good looks alone, and she is an example to all young Ethiopians the world over who dream of representing Ethiopia in any international event, she never forgot her duty, and that she was representing her country, and represented Ethiopia very well. Dina follows the continued success for our young Ethiopian models and beauty queens who have under the exclusive sponsorship and guidance of the Ethiopian Life Foundation and it President Mr Andy, proudly represented Ethiopia at several International Tourism events this year and in several previous years.

Keabnensh Girms is currently MISS TOURISM AFRICA 2005 winning in Greece at the 2005 Miss Tourism Planet contest last month. Fethiya Mohammed { crowned “Miss Nations 2005” at the 2005 Miss Universe-Ethiopia pageant} is currently BEST AFRICAN QUEEN from the Miss Tourism Queen International held in China also last month, And Dina Fekadu, is now MISS GOODWILL 2005

This the above results: Winning 3 titles at 3 International Tourism events in 2 months for Ethiopia is proof positive that one person can make a difference to Ethiopia’s international image and this can only be positive for Ethiopia’s International image and highlights the serious need for joint cooperation and support from the various bodies tasked with promoting Tourism in Ethiopia

Ethiopian Beauty shines in China as “BEST African Queen 2005”

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Fethiya Mohammed; a top 10 finalist from the 2005 Miss Universe-Ethiopia® pageant and who won “Miss Nation®” title for presenting the Best Ethiopian National costume at the 2005 Miss Universe-Ethiopia® National costume presentation show, has gone one step further by winning “BEST African Queen” at the 2005 Miss Tourism Queen International contest which concluded on Saturday 2nd July in China.

She was representing Ethiopia for the first time and competed against Tourism Queens from 72 other countries, the final show was televised live to almost 1.2 billion viewers in Asia and the run up to the grand finale featured several weeks of fashion shows, cultural shows, entertainment and visits to places of cultural interest in China, The girls all got a chance to promote their various cultures as spokespersons for their countries as well as learn about other cultures. They also got to travel very extensively during the competition.

His Excellency the Ethiopian Ambassador to China was one of the many Diplomats and dignitaries who attended the event, and he was pleasantly surprised to find that a young Ethiopian girl was proudly representing his country at the event!

Fethiya’s trip to China which was sponsored by the Ethiopia Life Foundation, and is a further continuing effort of the Ethiopian Life Foundation and the Miss Universe-Ethiopia® organisation to positively promote Ethiopia and Ethiopian culture on a global platform, and is testament to the fact that you don’t have the be one of the 3 National Queens; Miss Universe-Ethiopia®, Miss Ethiopia-World® or Miss Tourism-Ethiopia® to represent Ethiopia at an international event, as all top 10 “Princesses” from the Miss Universe-Ethiopia® pageant have wonderful opportunities to travel out and proudly represent their country, as the Miss Universe-Ethiopia® Organisation, and the Ethiopian Life Foundation strongly believes that hard work loyalty and dedication should always be rewarded.

It should be recalled that in 2004 The Ethiopian Life Foundation proudly sent representatives from Ethiopia to an unprecedented 14 International engagements as Ambassadors for Ethiopia such as: Miss Universe 2004, Miss World [Univ] 2004, Miss Tourism Planet 2004, Miss International, Miss Earth 2004, Miss Model of the world 2004, Best Model of the World 2004, Top model of the world 2004, Miss Tourism International 2004, Miss Tourism of the Globe 2004, just to mention a few,

This opened up doors and gave Ethiopia a Global platform to showcase its rich and proud culture with other nations at several grand events, the year 2005 is still young and with many more exciting adventures and opportunities available for young Ethiopian Queens, the sky is the limit.

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MISS KONJO® TAKES CENTER STAGE IN CHINA

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It is not very often that one can say that when beauty and athleticism are combined an Ethiopian can be expected to come out on top, but such was the case recently when Helene Tefera who was a top ten finalist and Crowned Miss Konjo® 2005 at the 2005 Miss Universe Ethiopia® pageant made her debut at the 2005 Miss Bikini of the Universe contest held in Hong Kong and several other cities in China, and was crowned “Miss Queen of Beach Activities”.

The pageant which combined athleticism and beauty in the form of athletic activities such as volleyball, netball ball, obstacle courses and other beach sports with fashion shows, was triumphed by our young Ethiopian beauty Helen Tefera, much to the amazement of the judges and other delegates, her success is all the more remarkable because Ethiopia does not even have any beaches where she could have been practicing her sport, so just as Ethiopians regularly excel on the track and in marathons worldwide, a young Ethiopian has now excelled on the beach in Asia combining athleticism and beauty and quietly made waves for the Good name of Ethiopia.

Miss Bikini of the Universe® 2005 beauty contest was a first for both Helen and Ethiopian Life Foundation who sponsored her participation, and it was another milestone in the continuing achievements of the Foundation and Miss Universe-Ethiopia® Organisation, that has achieved an enviable 80% success rate this year at international competitions.

Of the five girls the Miss Universe-Ethiopia® Organisation has sent out to events in the last few months: Kabensesh Girma [now: Miss Tourism Africa® 2005] Fethiya Mohammed [ now: Best Africa Queen® 2005] Dina Fekadu [ now: Miss Goodwill® 2005 ] and now Helen Tefera [now: Miss Queen of Beach Activities® 2005] all 4 of them retuned victorious from their engagements, and done Ethiopia proud, this new found attention being given to young Ethiopian girls on the international pageant scene is a positive boost for Ethiopia’s International image and one which can and is showing another side of Ethiopia, the beautiful and rich culture that Ethiopia has.

The Miss Universe-Ethiopia Organisation has once again shown why they are the main pageant of choice and record amongst Young Ethiopia girls, as they provide the most visible opportunities for their delegates, Not just for the winners, but the top 10 finalist all have the opportunity to represent Ethiopia at an international event, unlike many of the other pageants currently being held in Ethiopia.

The Ethiopian Life Foundation and the Miss Universe-Ethiopia® Organisation, provides a wonderful platform for young Ethiopians to promote their country and dispel myths and negative stereotypes about Ethiopia, These young Ethiopian Ambassadresses are proudly doing their patriotic duties assisted with the full might and support of the Ethiopian Life Foundation for the glory of Ethiopia.

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Welcome

Miss Universe-Ethiopia® 2005
Atetegeb Worku

Welcome to the Miss Ethiopia Blog we hope you will enjoy coming here to read all about what our queens are doing for our country.

Miss Universe Ethiopia 2005 at Miss Universe 2005 in Thailand

The Ethiopian life foundation through its Miss Ethiopia® Organisation is the largest single private public relations Organisation in Ethiopia with over 24 international licences, we have been giving young Ethiopians the chance to represent and promote their country and culture for over 3 years now and the exclusive licences of

MISS UNIVERSE®
MISS EARTH®
MISS INTERNATIONAL®
MISS WORLD univ®
MISS TOURISM®

And many more pageants in Ethiopia

We are a Private Non-Governmental, Non-Profit organisation, that strives to promote Ethiopia and Ethiopian culture through Edutainment and community based programmes

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MISS UNIVERSE ETHIOPIA

Miss Universe-Ethiopia® 2004

FEREHIYEWOT ABEBE

ETHIOPIA DEBUTS AT MISS UNIVERSE IN 2004 with

FEREHIYEWOT ABEBE