Month: August 2013

Volunteering successes in 2012-13

Link Ethiopia’s volunteering scheme has been running for many years now and a great number of visitors have been able to engage with Ethiopian schools and their pupils over that time. We have no restrictions on age (apart from obvious lower age limitations) and we welcome people from all walks of life – teachers, students, …

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A busy summer: Girl Guides visit Andinet

We had a group of 18 Girl Guides from the North East England region working with us in mid-August for couple of weeks, improving the educational facilities at Andinet Elementary School, in Gondar. The girls helped in refurbishing classrooms, cultivating a vegetable and shrub garden, running a summer camp for the students in the school and …

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Summer of success – Football team takes home gold!

Celebrations are in order for Link Ethiopia’s youngest football team who recently won the gold cup in a local competition proving that all their hard work has paid off. This talented bunch of 10 – 13 year olds have a true passion for the sport, which is evident when you see the level that they are …

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A busy summer: Cambridge University Summer Camps

All our Pembroke College Summer Camp volunteers arrived safe and sound last week in Ethiopia! They will be working with us over the next three weeks, running educational camps for students during their school holiday in three locations: Bahir Dar, Bishoftu and Gondar. Here’s a photo gallery of the team on their 1st day in …

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Hamle 19 Building Project

On the fringes of Asela, a large town about 90 minutes South of Bishoftu, sits Hamle 19 Elementary School.  Hamle 19 provides a beautiful setting and is linked to two schools back in the UK, Lutterworth’s John Wycliff Primary School and Coppice Primary School, not far from Birmingham. However, over the last two summers Hamle …

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Solar Powered at Tokumma School!

Tokumma Elementary School is located in West Shoa zone of Oromia Regional State in Ethiopia. The school’s catchment area is about 35 km2 with a population of about 3,000. The source of income in the area is largely traditional farming and animal rearing. The area does not have proper modern infrastructure including road, electricity, potable water and health facility. …

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A busy summer: World Challenge and Geographical Association visits

  This year’s summer has been, and will be, the busiest so far for the Link Ethiopia Gondar, Bishoftu and Bahir Dar offices! Our Gondar office has already hosted over 30 visitors from two World Challenge Groups refurbishing classrooms at Felege Abyot School in Gondar. Here’s the photo of the 1st Group being welcomed by …

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