A year has passed since I visited the Telbo clinic that is 10 km out of Soddo. I heard how difficult it is to change cultural traditions and root in the habit of giving birth in the safety of a…
I have spent four nights in Ethiopia with my travelmate Hillevi. On arriving to Addis Ababa our journey continued towards Awassa in four hours. Busride passed recovering from yesterdays overnight flight and looking at unique African landscapes. We arrived at…
Changes in the school have made days very busy. Only half of the old rooms (Oxnard I) remain. Due to that we also only have pupils up to the fifth grade. It is quite common that by the beginning of…
There is a teacher in a South-Estonian school who despite his stable and peaceful life would like to know more about the children in Africa. He has told the pupils about two very different worlds, of which one lays in…
In October when I was still in Ethiopia I wrote a blog post about the newborns and their mothers. It surely seemed the least I could do with this knowledge. Babies who are born in a clinic conditions are blessed…
Chilly air has made every morning feel homely until by ten o’clock the temperature has reached its African warmth. It is the half-term break for two weeks at the school and this gives us an opportunity to help along those…
Herds of camels and blue plastic bags stuck to thorny bushes gird the road from Ethiopian border to Somalilands capital Hargeysa. The Ethipoian visa is under new legislation issued only for three months. Easiest way to extend the visa is…
It is only six o’clock and the daily sound of music reaches our house from the nearby churches. The morning sleep is no longer disturbed by it as it was when we first came here, it’s rather the silence that…
Working in the university and being involved with doctorate studies at the same time gave me the idea to visit local Wolayta Soddo University which lies on the on the outskirts of town. When I pulled in the gates of…
After travelling about two and a half months around Africa with my comrade Lauri Lehtsaar we arrived on the 9th of December (presumably 30.03.2005 in the local calendar?) worn-down and grungy at our destination: Soddo, Wolaita, Ethiopia. This is a…