Come and meet us in London We are holding an event to meet our supports this July in London. We hope that our Country Director, Elsa, will be visiting from Ethiopia and she would love to meet you all. The event will include tasters of Ethiopian food and drink and the chance to meet with …
Together We Learn’s Chief Executive features in Charitable Traveller Magazine Caroline Walker, CEO of Together We Learn, is featured in Charitable Travel magazine’s July issue. The ‘day in the life of’ feature takes you through a typical day for our CEO in the UK office of Together We Learn, including the best bits and the …
Get a place in this iconic event with us Join the Together We Learn running team at the Royal Parks half marathon this October 2023. The incredible central london running event takes in some of the capital’s world-famous landmarks on closed roads, and four of London’s Royal Parks – Hyde Park, Green Park, St James’s …
Together We Learn’s Annual Report 2021-22 Our Annual Review is out, click here to read and download it. The Year in Numbers: 2,250 pupils benefitted from teachers receiving training 482 students sponsored through education 107 food parcels provided for families affected by conflict and inflation 92 girls received reusable period packs 64 students accessed higher …
Why use phonics? Teaching English using phonics teaches children to read by recognising the sounds that makeup words instead of memorising whole words or learning letter names. For example, cat has three sounds ‘c’ ‘a’ and ’t’ and chair has two sounds ‘ch’ and ‘air’. This method is now part of the national curriculum in …
By Abbey Anson, Fundraising Intern, and Caroline Walker, Chief Executive UNICEF report on how poverty affects children in Ethiopia A recent UNICEF report has given a valuable insight into understanding how poverty is affecting children in Ethiopia, where progress has been made, and what can be done to drive that progress further. Below we go …
Support delivered for Lalibela Families The town of Lalibela has been profoundly affected by the conflict in Northern Ethiopia. In August 2021, the town was occupied by Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) forces, residents faced crop destruction and a shut down of government services. Local families also had no access to water, electricity or a …
An excerpt from our latest School Link newsletter By Hannah, our School Links Coordinator The conflict in Ukraine has been weighing heavy on many of our minds and I am sure the children and young people in your schools have been searching for explanations. It’s times like these that draw the value of global education …
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 …
Emergency Appeal: Support for Families in Lalibela We are running an appeal to raise funds for 18 of our sponsored families living in Lalibela, whose lives have been devastated by occupation during the conflict in northern Ethiopia. We are trying to raise £4,240. One of our corporate partners, One Thought Changes All, has generously offered …