We spent our first week getting to grips with the projects, setting up the monitoring and a fair amount of that time translating, formatting, editing, printing, copying, hole-punching and binding some books to go in our project school libraries. These are very simple books in English and the local language that will allow children to …
Before starting any new intervention, we must measure whatever it is we’re trying to change. Getting this baseline means we know the situation when we started and can see if there’s any improvement later on. After arriving in Gondar, before getting off to any of the schools, monitoring was therefore where we started work. A …
Welcome to the Link Ethiopia Projects Blog! We are really excited here at Link Ethiopia to be able to tell you about a recent project that was completed at Dagoma Elementary School, located on the outskirts of the small farming village and community of Dagoma. Over 1,700 pupils attend the school, which has only 16 classrooms. A lack of finances …
Literacy & Libraries We hope to see more and more of this across our Ethiopian Link Schools! I’d like to welcome you all to this Weekly Update from the Link Ethiopia School Links team! We’re taking a good look at our latest major project – our Literacy and Libraries project, funded in part by …
Today, March 7th, is World Book Day. A day in which books – even bad books – are celebrated throughout the world. It remains our mission to educate as many children in Ethiopia as we possibly can and so we must remember the importance of reading in its ability to teach; but also in its …
A generous donation from one of our long-term supporters has helped us start up a new donkey library in Dembia Zuria, south of Gondar town. The donkey and the librarian are taking books to 6 rural satellite schools, reaching more than 4,000 children.