Some favourite images that I will keep forever from my time in Ethiopia:
Our day doing medicals on new children for the BEKA center.. and how happy the children seemed despite their poverty.
How the children loved being taught with a child centered focus!
How they love to play games!
That the guardians and children work so hard, and want to learn!
We visit the YTH Centers, play games, teach, learn some new games, and cannot believe our time in Addis is almost over! I have loved being with the children at each of the centers.
They are amazing people!
We visit the PATH Center, some to teach, some to play with the kids.
We love their art work!
We love our tour of SSCM Vocational Training Center. Here the students learn wood working, metal work and hair dressing! Some of us even got our nails done so the hairdressing students could practice!
We come back to Addis and spend our first day with the children of LIGA School!
We play games, learn new songs, and have a wonderful time!
We finally have to say goodbye to our friends in Gindo Town!
The children are beautiful!
As our days pass working in Gindo Town we accomplish a lot:
The children LOVE their craft and painting activities!
The children sing at the ground breaking ceremony for over 500 people from local government and community members!
We are part of the ground breaking ceremony for the new education center. The sign is put up!
The garden planting is begun!
The children are so excited to see us!
After some prelimary organizing, we begin our activities: teaching, ...
helping Clinic staff to clean the maternity and labour suite...
Our first stop once in Gindo is to visit the market garden site of the guardians.
This is new land the town has given to be developed as an income generating program.
Food grown will help with the hot lunch program of the education center, as well as all the guardians of the children who attend the center every day.
We will be helping to begin planting while here this week! It is exciting to see the land being prepared for this as we arrive.
We head out of the city of Woliso on foot to the road to Gindo Town.
We get to see the people of this region as we walk towards our day's site.
Along the way, we stop by this enormous Warka Tree to take a photo - with one brave volunteer climbing the tree limb for her pose!
After a short time in Addis to prepare for our departure to the country side, we all load on our bus to head to the Amaya region to work for 5 days.
We are excited and can hardly wait for the week, and trip to the country!
