We’ve got great news rolling in for Roots Ethiopia! Let’s take a look —
It’s July 1, which signifies the end of our fiscal year and lots of good news being prepared for our annual report! We are working right now on a stakeholders’ report that will be finished once our official accounting report is complete and filed with the IRS. We will post the report online as soon as it is available.
While work in Ethiopia during the rainy season slows quite a bit, Roots Ethiopia in the US is spending the summer ramping up for a busy fall season! Strategic planning is underway and our board members are hard at work evaluating last year’s successes and planning for the upcoming year’s campaigns and events. Next up is our fall annual IGA campaign — we anticipate great success. Now is the time to plan your September donations for IGA’s. $325 funds one business grant and changes the life of a family!
There is NEW Learning Resource Project underway! Roots Ethiopia will be purchasing and delivering essential textbooks for grades 1-4 for an elementary school in the Tembaro village of Gedra. Supporters in Maine will be “Biking for Books” to support this LRP. You can donate on our Razoo site. Please lend your support for books, blackboards, and play yard soccer balls.
In October we will be teaming up with Upcycle Ethiopia and their Etsy shop to benefit the creation of IGA’s for hard-working women. The Etsy shop will be open for business and in support of Roots Ethiopia in October — stay tuned for the shop opening announcement. We are so excited to be their beneficiary this year! (And if you’d like to be part of the crafting/sewing team for Upcycle Ethiopia and contribute to the team effort for Roots Ethiopia, please contact us info@rootsethiopia.org ). Every single item sold through their shop ENTIRELY benefits Roots Ethiopia. This volunteer group of women is stellar — they donate everything – time, supplies, creative spirit and the final product. Wow! We are grateful!
Our team is presently planning our December travel to Ethiopia. We will be conducting fieldwork, doing field assessments, and undertaking our first ‘all staff’ training at our headquarters in Hosanna.
We are excited to have a team of 6 planning enrichment activities at existing schools that have benefited from Learning Resource Projects, conduct training with community coordinators, visit communities, take compelling photographs, and build rapport with the communities and families with whom we work. We will once again be in Ethiopia during the harvest season and anticipate dust in our hair and grit in our teeth. We are getting ready now — and it is very exciting to plan this year’s work in Ethiopia. YES!
More to come —– we are hard at work! Thank you to all of YOU who make this work possible.
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