July 2022 Newsletter

July 2022 Newsletter

News from Ethiopia Summer in Ethiopia is the Rainey season. As drought is affecting large areas of the Horn of Africa including Ethiopia we are hoping that this years rain does not fail and that it is not so severe that the topsoil is washed away. The community...
April 2022

April 2022

Selam! Greetings from sunny Ethiopia. Tigist and Ally have arrived in Addis Ababa on a self funded trip to do some monitoring, evaluation, training and to help launch the pilot period poverty project that was the focus of The Big Give Christmas challenge in 2021. This...
Christmas 2021

Christmas 2021

Inspired by the Lalibela Churches by Sally Stanley for For-ethiopia. Where has the year gone? On one hand it has been an endless cycle of another lockdown, face masks, social distancing and covid fatigue, on the other the year appears to have flown by. We braved the...
November 2021 Newsletter

November 2021 Newsletter

Update from Ethiopia The Underhill Secondary Scholarship Scheme continues to be a great success, currently there are 8 girls who have enrolled for grade 12, 7 girls in grade 11  9 girls in grade 10. New girls who passed their grade 8 exams will be selected to join...

May 2021 Newsletter

Melikami Fasika Sunday past (2nd May) was Ethiopian Easter. Fasika is the most important Christian festival in Ethiopia, its significance is equal to the celebrations around Christmas in the UK. For the 40 days leading up to Fasika, Christians will have fasted from...