The One Laptop Per Child organisation recently tried an experiment, where they dropped off a number of tablet PCs in two remote Ethiopian villages. The aim was to see if children with no previous experience of the written word and literacy, and in an area far from any schools and teachers, could begin to teach …
On Friday two members of staff and six students from Impington College, near Cambridge travelled to Ethiopia to spend a week with visiting their link school, Bishoftu Preparatory. A day into their trip we asked both the students and staff to share some of their thoughts about the visit so far, about why they went …
Last week Catherine Twomey of Hill of Banchory School visited her link school Bahir Dar Academy as part of a longer holiday to Ethiopia. She shared with us the following summary of her time at her link school and we thought you might also enjoy reading it: It was really good to visit Bahir Dar …
Steph McKean, who volunteered in Lemlem Tesfa School in Bishoftu (Debre Zeit) this summer, has written this beautiful and very personal account of her time in Ethiopia. A fantastic insight into the Link Ethiopia volunteering experience! Surely all travel has a purpose. Be it for business, relaxation, sight-seeing or maybe to see old, or meet …
Thinking about visiting your school? Why not take advantage of the funding available from the Connecting Classrooms Reciprocal Visit Grant? This grant provides £1500 to both you and your link school (total £3000) to enable you to visit each other. The application form and further guidance are available from the British Council Connecting Classroom’s funding …
Welcome to our Olympics and Paralympics special news update! What a fun sporting summer we’ve had! Our teams in Ethiopia and in London have been cheering on the Olympic and Paralympic athletes with all our energy over the last month or so. We are now watching the Paralympic closing ceremony and thought this would be …
Ethiopia’s Paralympic involvement this year was greater than ever before. Four Ethiopian athletes took part, which is the same number that took part in all the other Paralympic events combined over the last 40 years. The team this year also won Ethiopia’s first ever Paralympic medal. As a bit of background information, Ethiopia first participated …
Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world after oil, and Ethiopia’s biggest export. This video is a great resource – meet some Ethiopian coffee farmers, learn about the importance of coffee to Ethiopia, and about an initiative to help farmers get more back from their work. See the video here: http://vimeo.com/35764583
Team Ethiopia – how did they do? The London 2012 Olympics may have drawn to a close but Team Ethiopia will be returning home with proud smiles and their pockets full of medals. The 2012 Ethiopian team, made up of a modest 35 athletes, won a total of 7 medals at this year’s games – …
Derara students welcomed a new Water Station providing consistently clean running water all year round. A big thank you to our long term partners World Challenge who helped make this all possible. We would also like to offer just as big of a thank you to Wellington School who not only helped fundraise for the …