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School started 2015…

School started 2015 School started in September 2015. Estonians who are helping to get the school year off to a good start and are trying to better the conditions for the children are present in Ethiopia this time as well.…

Games and recycling in Ethiopia

If a fair skinned stranger walks down the streets of a village in Ethiopia a crowd of shrieking children always follows. Kids who have reached too far from their homes unnoticingly change with new ones – it’s not going to…

Baking bread

Bread is made of tef-flour. Tef is a relative of millet and quinoa but with a smaller seed and contains iron, calcium, proteins, fibers, aminoacids and vitamin C. The process of making it is the same as for our leavened…

Daniel

In January 2015 I randomly met a young man named Daniel in a wedding in Hawassa. During our first conversation his activities seemed very special. Once back in Soddo we met up the very next day. Mainly because during the…

Bert Kasemaa Soddos

Bert is a last year student of Vanalinna Hariduskolleegium who came Ethiopia to motivate himself before national exams. The time for motivation seemed short however it was clear that his will to come to Africa had received approval on different…

Third week in Ethiopia

Two weeks have passed to getting used to Ethiopia. This is usually the time it takes to get used to the ways of Ethiopian streets and start to be able to coordinate in the streets of Sodo and memorize the…

Water

Orthodox music is for the background waking up every morning in Ethiopia. Though when the morning starts with silence it is certain that besides the absence of music the day also starts without electricity. With the loss of electricity the…