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  • Almost there

    This video show the school site on 13th May 2026 with Classroom Block A, Rest and refreshment Block C and toilet Block D, together with the substructure of Classroom Block B largely completed. Below is the completed Classroom block A. The generous grant of £8172 from Hazel’s Footprints Trust for the pupils’ rest and refreshment…

  • Swim Serpentine and Vitality 10K Events

    Three swimmers accepted the Serpentine challenge on 20th September, followed, the next weekend, by five runners taking on the Vitality 10K. Between them they raise almost £5000 for the school in Oromia. Thanks to them and to all who sponsored them, as well as the team from WDEF who cheered them on and flew the…

  • Photos of the school build

  • Legal recognition of organisation in Oromia

    On May 3rd 2021 (25 Miaziah 2013) Hundee Barumsa Warqinaa Dachaasaa (known by the acronym WADA, meaning promise) received its certificate of legal recognition. For this purpose, the following activities have been accomplished: – Support certificate was obtained from Guder District Education office.  We conducted our second meeting to approve the constitution of the foundation…

  • Workneh Dechasa Memorial 2021

    Saturday 15th May 3pm UK time4pm CET10am EST5pm Oromia (Ethiopia) Please join us to remember our dear friend, colleague and family member Workneh Dechasa who passed away on 13th May 2019. We shall remember the important and joyful contribution he made to so many of our lives and we will share our plans to create…

  • 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…