Saturday Surgery with Sue & Naomi

Trustee Sue Thomas and Dr Naomi Gillingham are back from their visit to Ethiopia where they saw the installation of three more solar refrigerators and had a chance to give training to the health extension workers and nurses as well as evaluate past health projects and...

More solar refrigerators to clinics

Nigel Walker and Jenny Stanley Smith have today (25 February 2013) arrived in Ethiopia to install three more solar refrigerators. This will be Nigel's third trip out to Addis Alem having already installed four in rural health posts. Nigel said 'Its a real pleasure to...

Dr Thomas off on her travels

  Trustee Sue Thomas is off to Ethiopia this evening (16 Feb 2013) on a self-funded trip to visit and evaluate our projects as well as oversee the installation of more solar refrigerators. Despite having to pack her suitcases she found time to visit BBC Radio...

Water to 10,000 people

Thanks to a generous donation six wells were drilled in Ejere District, West Shewa Zone, Ethiopia in 2011. The six sites were evaluated by water engineer Dr Ken Edworthy with the help of the British Consultancy Charitable Trust (BCCT). Ken visited all the sites and...

Solarsense to visit Addis Alem in 2011

The SouthWest’s leading solar installers, Solarsense, will visit Addis Alem in February 2011. It will complete a solar PV installation at the Beso rural clinic that will provide power for the much-needed vaccination fridges.

Motorcycle Ambulance Project (MAP)

This year, the Health Authorities in Addis Alem have asked us if we can provide them with a Motorcycle Ambulance. In the remote villages, if a woman is having a problem in childbirth, or there is some other medical emergency, there is no way to get them to the health...

Feedback from our first solar fridge

Feedback from our first Solar fridge 2 years on…. Meskerem and Tsehay are the two young health extension workers (HEWs) at the remote village of Besso, home of our first solar vaccine fridge. It’s installation in 2011 has made an enormous difference to their lives –...

Saturday Surgery with Sue & Naomi

Trustee Sue Thomas and Dr Naomi Gillingham are back from their visit to Ethiopia where they saw the installation of three more solar refrigerators and had a chance to give training to the health extension workers and nurses as well as evaluate past health projects and...

More solar refrigerators to clinics

Nigel Walker and Jenny Stanley Smith have today (25 February 2013) arrived in Ethiopia to install three more solar refrigerators. This will be Nigel's third trip out to Addis Alem having already installed four in rural health posts. Nigel said 'Its a real pleasure to...

Dr Thomas off on her travels

  Trustee Sue Thomas is off to Ethiopia this evening (16 Feb 2013) on a self-funded trip to visit and evaluate our projects as well as oversee the installation of more solar refrigerators. Despite having to pack her suitcases she found time to visit BBC Radio...

Water to 10,000 people

Thanks to a generous donation six wells were drilled in Ejere District, West Shewa Zone, Ethiopia in 2011. The six sites were evaluated by water engineer Dr Ken Edworthy with the help of the British Consultancy Charitable Trust (BCCT). Ken visited all the sites and...

Solarsense to visit Addis Alem in 2011

The SouthWest’s leading solar installers, Solarsense, will visit Addis Alem in February 2011. It will complete a solar PV installation at the Beso rural clinic that will provide power for the much-needed vaccination fridges.