Great project by the Ethiopians. Very commendable. Working to do their part to make their country and the world a little better.
Just the act of doing, taking up a pickaxe, hoe, or plow, rather than waiting passively for something to happen, sets them apart, makes them kin to Israelis. We have quite a few Ethiopians here, too. One of them was my study partner on a complex halachic tome. Brilliant man, made aliya with his family from Ethiopia at age 3. He moved from Nahariya to Jerusalem, I to Haifa. Missing him greatly.