What can we do to help?
Our vision is that WDEF and WADA operate as two independent partner charitable organisations, one facing the Oromo diaspora, the other locally focussed in Oromia. The first organisation has registered as a charity and trustees have worked with Workneh’s friends and family in Oromia to register the local group and gain support from the education…
Why rural schools matter in Oromia and Ethiopia?
Educational development plans in developing countries have stressed the need to develop the economic, social, and political potential of their population through a public education system that has emphasised rural development. A look at the educational system in Ethiopia where more than 80 per cent of the population lives in the rural areas, revealed that the educational…
The vision
Workneh Bedhane Dechasa was born in Guder in 1960, one of a family of eight and attended elementary school there. His studies took him to Ambo, Kotobe, Moscow and London. He worked as a teacher in Bale, Oromia. From 1991 he worked to to help schools in Camden, London include refugee and asylum seeking children…
Workneh Dechasa Education Foundation
A school for Oromia