Imagine Ethiopia 2011 Newsletter Parts I and II
Click on the images to download and read parts I and II of the full newsletters. Click here for part I. Click here for part II
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November 1, 2011
What We’re Excited About
It’s been a rainy summer here in Northern Ethiopia but as August flies by, the imagine1day field team is gearing up for another school year. What are we looking forward to? Members of our field team weigh in: Yeheyis Berhane “I am eager to see how our scholarship program works. It is ...
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August 11, 2011
Our Favourite Moments
The 2010/2011 school year has been an awesome one. We rocked Imagine Ethiopia 2010, built 4 new schools, planted trees, partied with the locals, chowed down on injera, filled up on local beer and much more. Here are a few of imagine1day’s favourite moments from the past school year: September is ...
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June 29, 2011
Skills for Life: A Boy’s Story of Transformation
Life Skills Training is an essential part of imagine1day’s program. We train our teachers in effective ways to educate students about topics ranging from HIV/AIDS prevention to early marriage, proper classroom behavior to basic sanitation practices. In 2009, teachers at Tsehafti Grade 1-8 Community School with Life Skills Training. Records that ...
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June 17, 2011
In a blink of an eye
by Larissa Norton (Imagine Ethiopia 2010 participant) It has already been 9 months since I returned from Ethiopia, and 6 months since I’ve been diagnosed with the C word. Where does time go? I swear the older you get, the faster time goes by. I’m already ...
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June 16, 2011
Imagination Station
Creativity is an important part of every student’s education and the teaching staff at Atsemba Grade 1-8 Community School is making strides to ensure that students are given the creative training and space that they need to thrive. Atsemba's Grade 1 teacher, Lemlem, explains further: "We participated in imagine1day’s Creative Classroom Program ...
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June 6, 2011
Liquid Gold
Water is one of Ethiopia’s most precious resources. Stuck between the irony of facing droughts almost every year and also being home to the source of over 85% of the Nile’s flow, water is an important part of any conversation to do with Ethiopia. Students from imagine1day's Laelay Wukro Grade 1-4 ...
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May 25, 2011
Leaders of the PAC
imagine1day’s vision is to connect people to greatness. From May 13-15, 2011, our Development Director, Adam Millard, facilitated Leadership Training for 11 members of imagine1day’s Project Advisory Council (PAC) in Wukro, a small town in Northern Ethiopia. Adam leads a Leadership Training workshop for 11 members of imagine1day’s Project Advisory Council ...
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May 20, 2011
Bannock4Books
Macdonald School students were determined to make a difference to the lives of Ethiopian children at imagine1day schools. The student council made a commitment to take action, and the grades 6 and 7 students designed posters and sold bannock to raise money for books for students in Ethiopia. The Bannock4Books Sale ...
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May 12, 2011
The Road to Sustainability
Once upon a time imagine1day trained a small Parent Teacher Association (PTA) from the remote community of Abada. Over the course of their three-day training the members of the PTA learned how to mobilize their community to support project, how to manage their school’s finances and how to increase the ...
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May 11, 2011
