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The 3rd anniversary of Workneh’s passing

May 13th 2022 will mark the 3rd anniversary of Workneh Dechasa’s death and also the 2nd anniversary of when his family and friends began our efforts to establish a school in his memory in his birthplace.

The previous two anniversaries were held on Zoom but this year we wanted to meet face-to-face and organise a number of fund-raising activities for our supporters to participate in.

Unfortunately, it has taken us more than a year to open a bank account and although we finally overcame that hurdle on April 22nd, we still have one or two hoops to jump through to set up Donations pages on the website and register for Gift Aid.

We have therefore decided that we need more time to plan an outdoor face-to-face event in a London park to joyfully remember Workneh and kick off a year of serious fund-raising. At this moment we just ask you to Save the Date 9th July 2022.

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We obviously encourage you to take a few moments to remember what a kind, gentle, smart, funny, committed person Workneh was and touch bases with others who knew and loved him on May 13th, but we also hope you will join us in July and support our fundraising activities to remember Workneh in an appropriate and meaningful way.

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Community blesses the school project

On May 7th 2021 officers of Hundee Barumsa Warqinaa Dachaasaa (WADA) visited the proposed site of the Workneh Dechasa Memorial School. This is WADA Secretary Hirpa Abu’s account of the visit.

Good morning all!!

We, the executive committee of Workneh Dechasa Education Foundation board traveled to the birth place of Workneh Dachasa, Guder, Melka Dhaga on May 06,2021. The committee held the meeting with officials & community elders from Tokke Kutaye district and Guder town including children of the surrounding of Melka Dhaga.
The participants from the administration & education offices of the district and the Mayor of Guder town appreciate the objectives of the foundation and promised to support particularly the building of the Primary school. The official raised different questions and the committee members gave enough explanations. After discussion, officials suggested the followings:

Ø Complying of the school to be built to the standards/requirements of Oromia education Bureau;

Ø Immediate site plan and handover of the land as donation by Workneh’s family to the Foundation

Ø Obtaining ownership certificate and construction permit from Guder Municipality;

Ø Preparing detail project plan after taking Primary school design and signing agreement with the Oromia Education Bureau;

Ø Starting and accomplishing on time. This is a high concern for them as they experienced with other NGOs.

Community elders & children were very happy and they will wait eagerly for the beginning of the project. They hoped that the project will solve their multisided problems of the learning process. As they told us, the children were very tiresome after going a distance of 5km to 1o km to reach the school and not following the teaching learning processes properly.

The elders also promised to coordinate the community to support by their labor, delivering local building materials, giving security services, follow up and monitoring

Generally we had a beautiful day and accomplished our plan successfully.

At the end, the Committee thanks a lot Workneh’s family for their honored hospitality and invitation of delicious lunch and drinks not only for us but all other guests.

Goodbye

Hirpa Abu