December 2008 - In the presence of the USAID/Ethiopia Mission Director, Mr. Glen Anders Mr. Addis Alemayehou, Chief of Party of VEGA Ethiopia AGOA+ and his team held a press conference on December 3^rd, 2008 at the Hilton Addis. The purpose of the conference was to officially launch the start of a Development Credit Authority (DCA) Program to the public.

Although the crowd of investors in George Washington University’s Jack Morton Auditorium on a Saturday afternoon was nestled in the heart of Washington, D.C, the center of attention was thousands of miles away–in the Horn of Africa. The auditorium was host to the invitation-only Third Ethiopian Diaspora Business Conference, an event co-sponsored by Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA), the GWU Diaspora Program, and the GWU Center for International Business Education and Research.