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School Projects in Welkite /Ethiopia (East Africa)

An aid project by: Bessere Zukunft e.V. (R. Röder)

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R. Röder (Project Manager)

R. Röder
With this project our non-profit organization supports elementary schools near Welkite. Welkite is 180 km southwest from the capital city Addis Ababa located. In January 2008 we visited the first elementary school in the village Geraba the first time.
At this school there is a lack of fundamental supply with water, toilets and electricity. Also there are rarely educational books from which the students can learn. In May 2010 we visited another nearby elementary school, where we discovered alarming learning conditions. Because there are barely any educational books, school materials and furniture at the schools (see photos), sufficient school education isn’t possible. At the second school neither a library nor books are available. The classrooms have not enough room and benches to sit for the 80 children per grade. Often four to five children have to share a seating bench or they must sit on the floor.

Most of the children have to walk 45 minutes to one hour to get to school. Nevertheless the children motivatedly attend the lessons. Unfortunately, most of the children cannot show up five days a week in their class, because they have to work for living. Children in Ethiopia are important workforces who have to help nourish their families.

These schools lack the basic necessities for an equal and fair education of the children. With your support we want to enable the children of this elementary school to get an education of equal opportunities.

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  • w. batham:
    Hi there, My name is Wayne and i live in the UK. I have been contemplating doin…
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    w. batham asked 11 months ago

    Hi there, My name is Wayne and i live in the UK. I have been contemplating doing a sky dive for charity and have been looking over different charities to help. I am specifically interested in completing sponsorship for yourselves and the two welkite schools; as i have strong bonds with Welkite as my wife is from there and family all still live in the village and some of them may have actually been to the school. As a matter of fact we were only last in Welkite in september last year where we saw the new road construction taking place towards hosanna. Would you be interested in my carrying out the skydive for you. I will be paying for the jump myself; therefore everything that i riase will be donated to yourselves, i may just like one of my family to visit the site to see the money in action if that is ok. Please respon at your convenience and could you also please share more information on the welkite II project as i cannot read the brief as it is in german. I look forward to hearing from you and am excited at teh work you are doing there in Welkite.
    Thankyou
    Wayne Batham
     

    R. Röder: (Project Responsible) answered 11 months ago

    Hello Wayne,
    it’s a great idea from you to combine a sky dive with a charity project. We are happy to hear that you decided to support our school projects, also that you have strong bonds to this region of Ethiopia. Thank you very much.
    Also we are happy about visitors. So, it will not be a problem to visit our school projects.
    At the moment we are preparing an English translation of the second school project (Welkite II) for Betterplace. Hopefully we can provide it this weekend. In brief, the conditions of the second school are severe: There is no library, no or not enough proper equipment (i.e. furniture, construction, teaching materials) and any help for the children. Nevertheless, there is a strong motivation of the students to learn.
    For further details feel free to contact us (roeder(at)bessere-zukunft.org).
    Kind regards,
    Rosemarie Roeder

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