Ethiopia Reads is honored to have sponsored this year’s Best Children’s Book Award. Congratulations to the book The Tailor and the Four Mice by Behailu Gebre-Egiziabher for winning the 4th Annual Best Children’s Book of the Year from library organization, The HoHe Award! Pictured below is our Country Director awarding the prize to the winning author. The other wonderful nominees included: The Bike … Read More
Books Bring Hope & Joy
Books bring hope and joy even in difficult times* As the news of fighting and unrest in Ethiopia reaches us, we feel tremendously sad for the Ethiopian people and frustrated about the effects on their children’s education. Between 3 to 4 million Ethiopians have been displaced across the country of which over 2 million have been uprooted by conflicts in northern Ethiopia. Ethiopia … Read More
Reaching more Ethiopian children
Halkee hiigsiga lagu kobciyaa? (Translation of “Where do dreams grow?” in Somali language)
Devoted volunteers delivered 50,000 books to Ethiopia
LeAnn Clark, one of the unsung heroes behind Ethiopia Reads, and her husband, Stan Clark, live in Hesston, Kansas. For more than 15 years, the couple collected books for Ethiopia Reads. This month, with the help of Ethiopian Airline and the Boeing factory in South Carolina, 34 pallets containing over 50,000 books arrived in Addis Ababa and are headed to … 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
