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Haile visits the UK

Last month our team in London had the great pleasure of welcoming Haile, our Regional Manager for Southern Ethiopia. We were quite excited as he was the first member of our Southern Ethiopia team to visit the UK. During his three-weeks stay Haile embarked upon a mega tour of the country to visit some of …

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Calum returns from Ethiopia!

From Calum: “On arrival to the country, my first consideration was to how incredible the vibe was. The people were extremely friendly, and despite me spending my two weeks waltzing around with a new sets of footballs down the main high street, the request to have one soon subsided once the locals realised I was …

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Join us in the Great Ethiopian Run 2013!

On Sunday 24th November this year, tens of thousands of runners will take to the roads of Addis Ababa again for the greatest African road race. Last year saw over 36,000 people take part, including both elite runners and fun runners from around the world, and this year is expected to be even bigger…and noisier! …

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£1,000 Raised for Chuahit No.1 Elementary School!

Massive thanks are in order to the pupils, teachers and parents of Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Primary School, Leeds, who raised over £1,000 for their link school, Chuahit No.1 Elementary School. The money was spent providing the school with much needed library books, including chemistry, English and physics text books. A printer for administrative use …

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Hilden Charitable Fund Scores Again!

Hello again from the Projects and Fundraising Team here at Link Ethiopia! Last year, in ‘Sowing the seeds for future Ethiopian Olympians’ we told you about the fantastic partnership between The Hilden Charitable Trust Fund and Link Ethiopia – aiming to improve schools and pupils’ educational performance through sport. The Hilden Trust funded the successful Sports …

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Dagoma Elementary Get Their Books!

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 …

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The International School Award

Your school linking activities already put you in a great position The British Council support schools engaged in Global Learning in a variety of ways – from their Connecting Classrooms grant, to their Professional Development courses. The International School Award, a three-level accreditation, is designed with a framework intended to “help you to record and …

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Your Weekly Update: Libraries & Literacy

  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 …

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Farmor’s School Visit to the Bahir Dar Zuria Academy

Teachers from the Farmor’s School, Link Coordinator Karen & her colleague Sarah, had been so excited to finally be able to visit their link school in the Bahir Dar region. Through making use of the Connecting Classroom’s Grant, offered by the British Council, this was to become a reality. Despite having pre-trip nerves and being …

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Linton Park Visit to Enfraz Elementary

After not venturing outside Europe for 50 years, Cindy, the Link Coordinator at Linton Park Primary School in Kent, alongside her colleague Nigel, had the opportunity to finally visit her link’s school, Enfraz Elementary in Gondar Zuria and to visit the northern part of the beautiful country of Ethiopia. This was made possible through our …

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