Latest news

  • Official recognition our school meets the standard

    On the 6th-7th October Officials from the Tokke Kutaye District Education Office visited the site of the school and concluded … Based on your submitted document and the state of the construction, we were very pleased. The building exceeds the primary school standard and can serve as a school for grades 1–8, so we agreed…

  • Photos of the school build

  • 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…

  • 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…