Edeget Feleg Secondary school in the centre of Gondar town provides Grade 9 and 10 education to 2,900 pupils. Their toilet facilities are basic, old and damaged. We are currently working with the school to fund a new toilet block made of solid blocks which will last well into the future – the new toilet …
Greetings from Link Ethiopia Welcome to the last Link Ethiopia news update for 2009! This is a good opportunity for us to tell you about our alternative gift website, Gift Ethiopia, which is full of fun and unusual present ideas, ideal for friends and family this Christmas. All the gifts are needed by the children, schools and …
Welcome to our September & October 2009 news update Another school term and another school year …. and I am sure it will be another adventurous year for all of our Link Ethiopia projects. It is certainly our intention to make it the most successful year yet – a year in which we involve more and …
Welcome to our August 2009 news update A holiday for some, a quiet rest period for others. But for all of us at Link Ethiopia, activity continues as normal as we strive to improve and extend the work that we are doing – more and better school links, further teaching volunteers to prepare for their experiences, …
Welcome to our July 2009 news update There are all sorts of ways in which individual people are helping with the work of Link Ethiopia – and every personal effort allows us to support more young people in more Ethiopian schools. In this edition you can read just a little about the activities of some …
Welcome to our June 2009 news update Another UK summer and the fast approaching end of another school year. Link Ethiopia has spent many months developing the content and quality of its school links and we are now beginning to see the expansion of the scheme as it was planned a long time ago. We …
Welcome to our May 2009 news update The UK summer is upon us already and our schools are in their final half-term of activity. Link Ethiopia has been extending and expanding its school links recently, with visits to Leicestershire and East Sussex providing lots of new and enthusiastic faces. But this news update focuses on …
Welcome to a combined March & April news update Hello from all of us at Link Ethiopia! Spring is awakening here in the UK and some of the Link Ethiopia team are just returning from Ethiopia again. We have volunteers waiting in line to go out there to teach and work in schools, we have …
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 …