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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

  • 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…