This is What Development Looks Like
In March, imagine1day’s new communications officer, Candice Vallantin, moved to Ethiopia. This what she wrote after her first trip to the field. Read post >
In March, imagine1day’s new communications officer, Candice Vallantin, moved to Ethiopia. This what she wrote after her first trip to the field. Read post >
So, what does imagine1day do exactly? This is a question I often struggle with. Read post >
In some communities, imagine1day has to convince families to send their kids to school. In the community of Agulae Maernet, that was never a problem. All school-age children in this community were attending class, and the attendance rate was 98%. The problem here was over-population. Read post >
When imagine1day first visited Laelay Wukro, 125 students attended school in four open-air “dass” classrooms. They sat on rocks and struggled to focus while exposed to the elements. Teachers only had two chalkboards to share between four classes. These were their only teaching aids. Read post >
When imagine1day first visited the community of Abada in 2009, students rarely continued their education past Grade 4. The nearest Grade 5-8 primary school was more than 15 km away, a daunting four to five hour round trip on foot. Read post >
Seffo is home to imagine1day’s first school. Just ten months after imagine1day was registered in Ethiopia in 2008, we opened our very first Grade 1-4 classrooms in this small village, in the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia. Read post >