Welcome to the February news update! Hello everyone – and best wishes to you from a chilly and recently snowy UK! This News Update will have our usual mixture of thoughts and information but the focused topic for February is our volunteering scheme. Nowadays our volunteers are of a very wide age-range and take part …
Welcome to the January news update! Hello to all our friends out there in so many countries of the world! Another New Year has dawned here in Europe while another festive Timkat (Epiphany) season is being celebrated in Ethiopia. For Link Ethiopia and all of the varied organisations working to put right some of the …
Seasons Greetings from Link Ethiopia! Still looking for Christmas gifts? Look no further! Our Gift Ethiopia website (www.giftethiopia.org) is full of fun and unusual present ideas, which will bring a smile to the faces of your friends and family this Christmas. They are all desperately needed by the children, schools and communities we work with in Ethiopia. …
Greetings to all! Welcome to Link Ethiopia’s November news update, which embarrassingly we are sending out just hours before another month dawns! We have been particularly busy recently with new schools joining our linking scheme, a second office in Ethiopia just opening up and a third Ethiopian member of staff joining the team. More about all of this …
Welcome to the September news update! Hello from Link Ethiopia to all supporters and interested parties! We told you lots about our Volunteering Scheme in the last News Update, and we hope you enjoyed reading it. In this September edition we want to tell you about recent progress with some of the school classroom projects being funded …
Welcome to the August news update! Hello everybody, and welcome to the August 2008 news update from Link Ethiopia. Our schools are on holiday and enjoying some well-earned rest but we want to keep you up to date on our activities so this update will focus on our Gap Volunteer Scheme and tell you about some of …
Welcome to the July news update! With our schools now enjoying a restful holiday period we at Link Ethiopia have been hard at work both in the UK and in Ethiopia expanding our Child Sponsorship programme and extending the scope of our Gap Ethiopia volunteering scheme. Our thanks go to the part-time volunteers who have been helping …
Hello everyone! Welcome to the June news update from Link Ethiopia. As our schools in the UK and in Ethiopia begin to wind down over the next few weeks we look back over the last academic year and are amazed by all that’s taken place. Thanks to everyone who has been involved – whether through your school, …
Hello everyone! Welcome to a joint April and May news update from Link Ethiopia. Members of our UK team have just returned from an intensive visit to Ethiopia, working alongside our in-country staff and visiting schools and projects. In Gondar, our Country Manager, Ato Belayneh, is now partnered with Mulugeta Derso, a young graduate who …
Hello everyone! As you read this news update for March, several members of the Link Ethiopia team are planning and getting ready for one of their regular visits to Ethiopia. As more and more schools join the family and make relationships with Ethiopian schools, so the team have more and more tasks to fit into …