Thank you to Friends of Ethiopia Reads in Grand Forks, North Dakota, which made the holiday Style & Garden Show fundraiser supporting literacy programs a huge success! Volunteers include retired school librarians who helped attendants assembled 30 birthday gift bags to be distributed to families celebrating birthdays at St. Joseph’s Food Pantry in Grand Forks. Thank you to ER Board … Read More
Children’s Reading Summit 2019
Ethiopia Reads is excited to announce our first Children’s Reading Summit on March 13, 2019 in Addis Ababa at the Sapphire Hotel. The objective of this one of its kind Summit is to share Ethiopia Reads’ 15 years of experience with other literacy and youth related organizations. The value of having libraries for young children will be discussed. Ready, Set, … Read More
Honoring Rich Male
Congratulations to our dear friend and mentor, Rich Male, who is being honored with the Steve Graham Award for Building Nonprofit Capacity from the Colorado Nonprofit Association. Rich has been a hugely important member of the Ethiopia Reads family since the very beginning, and he’s helped us bring the power of books to tens and thousands of children across Ethiopia. … Read More
Appreciation for Our Partners – Open Heart Big Dreams!
Starting the year by recognizing those who are important to us, Open Hearts Big Dreams has been a big supporter of Ethiopia Reads since 2011, when Ellenore Angelidis, her family and friends in the Seattle area started organizing fundraisers in support of Ethiopia Reads’ work, which grew to an important element of our support. In 2016, Open Hearts Big Dreams … Read More
Children’s Reading Festival at Ababa’s Villa
Last Saturday, December 22nd, Ethiopia Reads held a Children’s Reading Festival in the large beautiful grounds of Ababa’s Villa*, an historic guest house in Ferensay Legation neighborhood in Addis Ababa, to promote reading, early grade literacy and reading to children to families as both important and fun. Nearly 250 young children from two schools and an orphanage in the neighborhood … Read More
Friends of Ethiopia Reads Launched in DMV Area
A group of 30 Ethiopia Reads supporters in the DC area including Matt Andrea, our local board member and Malcolm Clark, our Board Chair met on December 1st at Kaldi’s Social House in Silver Spring to meet and discuss Ethiopia Reads ambitious plans for 2019 and beyond. Several of the group decided to launch a DC-Maryland-Virginia area supporters group (DMV … Read More
U.S. Team Met for Strategic Meeting
The Board of Directors, advisors and staff of Ethiopia Reads met in Denver for a strategic planning retreat in Denver on October 28-30, 2018. Thank you to the support and warm welcome of the congregant of Montview Presbyterian Church for hosting our meeting. We also held a social hour with Denver based supporters at a local Ethiopian restaurant. We are … Read More
BCL Training of Trainers in Addis Ababa
On November 5-9, 2018, Janet Rose, Librarian Media Specialist and member of the ER Book Centered Learning (BCL) Committee and Yemisrach Worku, ER’s Country Director, held this year’s second professional development Training of Trainers in Addis Ababa with librarians from across the country. This curriculum was created and field tested by the Committee over the course of 8 years by … Read More
55,000 Amharic Illustrated Storybooks Printed and Delivered to 128 Schools Across Ethiopia
Two weeks ago, Ethiopia Reads printed 55,000 copies of 22 new illustrated storybooks for younger children (KG-Grade 4 target audience). Last week, these were distributed in Addis Ababa, Bahir Dar and Hawassa to staff from 128 primary schools across Ethiopia. 288 librarians, teachers and administrators attended the training and distribution events. We gave every school a set of Amharic language … Read More
Imaginary After School Party
Friends of Ethiopia Reads is honoring Ben Franklin Elementary School for 11 consecutive years supporting literacy in Ethiopia. Under the leadership of Dr. Beth Randklev, principal, BRING A BOOK, BUY A BOOK has been held each spring. Students are encouraged to donate books they have read throughout the year for other readers to purchase. Parents help their children locate books … Read More
