Our work to help the victims of the Burma floods has stretched out into the wider areas of Chin State where 40 villages were destroyed by landslides as a result of the floods. Stand by Me’s team has reached 25 villages and over 6,000 people with essential supplies.
Stand by Me has two schools in Ethiopia, one situated in Bekoji and the other in Dembi Dollo. We are planning to take an educational team to Ethiopia, leaving around the 19th March 2016 to help the two schools move towards more child-centred teaching approach.
Students and teachers alike at Immanuel School, suited up in their ‘onesies’ on Wednesday 16th December not because they were cold, but because they were raising donations to buy shoes for the kids in our care.
The Abdi Academy in Dembi Dollo has had the addition of 40 bright smiling faces as we welcomed new students into Kindergarten 1. All of them have come from very disadvantaged families and were extremely excited to receive their new uniforms.