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Shashkurit School

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 …

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Meet Anteneh

Sponsorship: Anteneh’s Story Anteneh was born in a small village in the Amhara region in 1995. He grew up with little support from his mother or his father; his parents never married and both started separate families. After enrolling in grade one, Anteneh walked seven kilometers each day to attend his nearest elementary school. Before …

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Helping Families to Keep Girls in School

Girls Education: Business Start-ups for Mothers Ethiopia has made progress towards improving the equality of enrolment rates for boys and girls in schools. Yet, the higher in education you go, the more likely girls are to drop out. 30% fewer girls join higher education than boys Voluntary National Reviews on SDGs of Ethiopia, 2017 One …

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Meet Habte

Playgroup: Habte’s Story Habte started coming to the Playgroup when his sponsorship started. He was undernourished and had not started school yet so Playgroup would help him learn key early skills for Primary school. However, when he started coming to the Playgroup, our Youth Worker noticed that Habte wasn’t developing as he normally would by …

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Coronavirus: Our Response in Ethiopia

Countries around the world are affected by coronavirus and during this time our priority remains the safety and wellbeing of our beneficiaries and our staff. Update 20th September 2020: The State of Emergency was lifted at the end of August but most protective restrictions remain in place. The Ministry of Education has given the go …

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Impington Village College and Adea Model School: An Exchange Trip, Part I

Impington Village College come to Adea Model Secondary School In November, sixth form students and teachers from Impington Village College, Cambridge, travelled to Adea Model Secondary School, Bishoftu. The visit was the first part of an exchange trip with an Ethiopian group visiting the UK in January 2020 to experience schools here and continue the …

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School linking – combining learning and action!

Our School Linking programme connects schools in the UK with schools, pupils and teachers in Ethiopia to develop sustainable and rewarding relationships. We currently facilitate two types of links: a School-to-School connection and an Education Ethiopia connection. Both links are designed to promote greater understanding of different cultures and show students a balanced perspective of …

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The Latest on our Literacy Project

Did you know that English has 42 phonic sounds? Over the last academic year we have been working with grade one teachers in nine schools to teach English using the phonics method. So far, we have trained 36 teachers to effectively use the phonics method in their classrooms! We have seen incredible results this year, …

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Causing a Flap in Education

Causing a Flap is a project run by a network of UK universities, which includes experts from fields such as Archaeology, Anthropology and Genetics, who research the role chickens play in societies around the world. They research the social significance of chickens; as a provider of foodstuffs, use in medicine, magic and cock-fighting, from their …

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Meet Sue! Our Partner Helping to Transform Gendit School

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 …

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