Caroline Walker

Meseret School Library

We’re thrilled to announce the completion of a brand-new library at Meseret Elementary School in Gondar, Ethiopia – a space that now serves 1,800 students from kindergarten through grade 8. This bright, welcoming facility offers a much-needed place for study, updated curriculum books, engaging storybooks for all ages, and a lending service to support learning …

Read more

Spring 2025 News

Our Spring 2025 Newsletter Our quarterly news with the latest updates from our projects, fundraising and other news. In this quarter’s updates:

Future Girls: Students Lead the Way

What is Future Girls? Future Girls is our flagship girls’ education programme, bringing together everything we have learned about supporting girls at school and working within school structures to create sustainable, positive change. The project tackles key barriers that prevent girls from fully benefiting from education. These barriers include menstrual health management, inadequate school sanitation …

Read more

New Year & Genna Message

Happy New Year and Melkam Genna! For all of our supporters following the Gregorian calendar, we wish you a happy new year, and for all those following the Ethiopian calendar we wish you a wonderful Genna! As we begin a new year, and as the many of communities we serve celebrate their Christmas (Genna – …

Read more

Award winning!

Together We Learn wins award for construction projects Together We Learn has been awarded the Golden Cup from Gondar City Education Office in recognition of our impactful, cost effective and quality project delivery! Country Director Elsa with the award and certificate of recognition Elsa receives the Golden Cup from Gondar City Administration Amhara Manager, Tatek, …

Read more

Student Sponsorship in 2024

A Message from our UK Coordinator Welcome to the 2024 annual update of Together We Learn’s sponsorship programme! I am very happy to be in contact with you and have the opportunity to introduce myself – I am Gaby and have recently taken over as the Sponsorship Coordinator in the UK office. This update was …

Read more

Summer 2024 News

Our Summer 2024 Newsletter Our quarterly news with the latest updates from our projects, fundraising and other news. In this quarter’s updates:

Improved Literacy for 135,000 Students

2024 Phonics Update Jolly Phonics offers a fun, child-centred approach to teaching English through letter sounds, which is especially important in Ethiopia where all secondary school subjects are taught in English — yet students often lack even the basic foundations under traditional methods focused on alphabets and dictation. Together We Learn began working with Jolly …

Read more

Annual Review 2023

Together We Learn’s Annual Report for 2022-23 Our Annual Review is out, click here to read and download it. The Year in Numbers: This Annual Review covers activities from April 2022 to August 2023, marking an exceptional 17-month period as we adjust our reporting to align with the academic year. Despite challenges, including ongoing conflict …

Read more

An Update on our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

By Caroline Walker, CEO In August 2021 the UK office of Together We Learn committed to actively review our equality, diversity and inclusion practices and work to improve them for the overall benefit of our organisation. At that time we stated that: We recognise that structural racism is an issue in the UK charity sector. …

Read more

Together We Learn - Ethiopia