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 …
A guest blog by our partner, Sue Eland Hello, my name is Sue Eland and I’m delighted to be working alongside Link Ethiopia. In 2018, I approached Link Ethiopia with a dream to build a primary school in Ethiopia. This was a long-held dream and I was finally in a position to take the first …
Throughout the past few months we have accomplished a lot here at Link Ethiopia, none of which would have been possible without your continuing support. Following is an overview of our latest projects. For access to our annual report, please click here. 225 Period Packs Distributed Our collaboration with the Days for Girls project is …
‘Hope’ are helping us resource Ethiopia’s schools. The founder of Hope, Evan Lewis, made his pencil production line so efficient that he decided to donate the extra pencils being produced to supporting global education projects. He originally launched Everything Environmental in 2005, which has become the leading company in eco-friendly and ethically sourced promotional merchandise …
Written by Alan Taylor. I was delighted to be back in Gondar to attend the ceremony which formally closed Link’s Library Improvement Programme after three successful years. The Library Improvement Programme was launched in 2014 to help libraries in local schools which were often not well used to support teaching and learning. 26 schools from …