When we launched the Kebele 20 Kindergarten Classrooms campaign in December 2023, our goal was to build three bright, sturdy, and inspiring classrooms for 120 local children in Azezo. Thanks to your generosity – and match funding from our pledgers and Ethiopiaid – we reached our full target of £14,000. The development of a new …
£11,040 raised for Delo School! Our match funded Christmas Campaign this year ran from Tuesday 2nd to 9th December, raising more than £11,000. The money raised will build safe, gender-separated toilets and handwashing stations at Delo Primary School in Ethiopia. The school currently has no functioning toilets, so our project will deliver health, dignity and …
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 …
Campaign campaign raises £15,000! Thank you to all the donors who supported, shared and donated to our Big Give Christmas Challenge from the 3rd to 10th December. Together we raised £15,000, with every donation matched by our pledgers and Ethiopiaid. We will be using the funds raised to create corner libraries and improve literacy in …
UDPATE: We are delighted that we hit our target for our Christmas Challenge – raising £14,000 to build new kindergarten classrooms at Kebele 20 school. We thank you for your support and will keep you updated on the project as it progresses! Double your impact in our fundraiser! Join us in the Big Give Christmas …
Book Distribution and Library Training in Gondar Access to reading materials is very important to the lives of the young people we work with. Across the country, many children do not have books at home. Those that do have access to books learn to read earlier, have a better chance of staying in school and …
What is phonics? Together We Learn has been partnering with Jolly Phonics to train Ethiopian teachers to use the phonics method of teaching English. Instead of memorising words, children are taught the 42 sounds of English, which include the 26 alphabet sounds plus sounds such as ‘ch’ ‘sh’ ‘ee’ and ‘ay’. Teaching children these sounds …
This year we collaborated with US organisation Open Hearts Big Dreams to bring a new school library to Gondar town. The library is located in Hibret Elementary School, one of the largest in Gondar, which has 1,070 pupils. Before we began construction the school had only one small room for storing books. The project was …
School Construction: Andinet School Silenat is a student at Andinet school. Silenat lives with her mother, her brother and her two sisters in a one room mud and wood house in a rural area on the outskirts of Gondar. Silenat’s father died when she was young so her mother supports the family working as a …
School Construction: Shashkurit School Together We Learn has been helping schools to build new classrooms, latrines and library buildings for over twenty years. As our team has grown we have been able to reach out to the schools most in need of support – rural schools where students are learning outside and where they don’t …