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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…

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  • Work begins on Workneh’s school

    An important milestone was reached and celebrated with the laying of the corner stone of the kindergarten school in Malkaa-Dhagaa Guder on the 26th November. The site has been fenced and a secure store for materials built. Work will begin shortly on pouring the foundations. Elders and members of the local community gathered to hear…