Marking the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day (December 1), this gallery shows the transition over time in how CAFOD has tackled HIV, from the early focus on care and treatment, through to the innovative, wide-ranging education, preventive and awareness work of today
Entries Tagged as ‘Ethiopia’
August 23, 2008
Ethiopia: Final farewells
Our last week has been a bit crazy. There was so much to be done: tidying up assessments, final grammar tests, preparing for the “Oliver” performance, a night out with the admin staff, buying presents for the sisters…
On top of all that, we have had lots of visitors. Four students and two teachers from Castle Knock in [...]
August 20, 2008
Ethiopia: Winning the long distance race
After three years working in Ethiopia I am moving on, so I thought it was a good time to reflect on progress.
All you regular followers of my blog may be interested to know what became of Chula, the young pastoralist woman from Borana who talked about her “carbon footprint”, the cross border tsetse control initiative, the [...]
August 17, 2008
Ethiopia: Oliver Twist – a child like us
couple of weeks ago we had the brainwave of using the story “Oliver Twist” for reading and comprehension with our classes.
I’m not sure how Charles Dickens would feel about having his classic novel reduced to two sides of A4, but it has worked so well!
The children here identify with Oliver. Most of them have also [...]
August 17, 2008
Ethiopia: Arts, crafts – and football
ur latest idea for Wednesday activity day at the Streetchildren Project was an arts and crafts day.
I had brought some wire and a selection of tiny coloured beads from England for making jewellery.
Janet decided to make papier-mache pinatas by covering inflated balloons with newspaper dipped in flour and water.
Pauline learnt a few origami instructions from the internet [...]
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