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http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0821/p01s02-woaf.html?page=2
Passage 7
阅读导引（适用于M8）
憧憬理想社会，建立美好家园，是人类共同的理想与追求。在埃塞俄比亚，一位目不识丁的农民倡导建立了一个独特的社区：那里的成员人人平等，衣食无忧，大人努力劳作、孩子尽情玩耍……经过20多年的努力，这个社区已经从20人发展到400余人，并开始受到人们的关注。
He can’t read or write, but Zumra Nuru created a society that would have made Karl Marx proud. The 60-year-old Ethiopian farmer founded Awra Amba, a community where men cook, women plow, and religion has no place.
The experimental community first came to national awareness when Nuru gave an interview on national television a few years ago. Since then numerous people have come to see the success for themselves. “I was completely attracted by the community,” says a foreign visitor. “I regard it as the model for the world on how gender issues should be treated.”
But achieving this level of recognition was a long time in coming.
During his childhood, Nuru was disliked by his family and neighbors not only for his support for gender equality but for his opposition to institutionalized religion. In his 20s he became a wandering preacher of his own ideals.
“I traveled to find people who would accept my ideas,” he says, believing no religion other than honesty and love for fellow humans. In the 1980s he gathered a group in the Amhara region and together they established Awra Amba – meaning “top of the hill.”
Today the community has some 400 members and is considered as a model to reduce poverty and promote gender equality.
Weaving is one of the symbols of Awra Amba. In Ethiopian society, weaving is women’s work, yet men and women work side by side here in Awra Amba. The hand-woven scarves, clothes, and blankets are sold in the village shop. The community does not accept donations, but offers its products for sale.
Their reputation for being honest is also paying off. Donkeys with bags of grains wait beside the village grain mills. “Neighboring farmers prefer to use our mills because they trust us not to cheat them,” says a villager.
The villagers are well fed and clothed. Children play instead of working. Still, the village hopes to earn more money in order to build water and sewage systems, pave the road, and create an education fund for the children.
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