Contact: Keith: KStrawn <KStrawn@blessingthechildren.org>

www.BlessingTheChildren.org

888-269-2719

Information:

  • Have access to 100 children between the ages of 6 and 12, and the organizational structure to train, receive, distribute, and provide on-going oversight.
  • Can provide daily classes throughout the summer for all 100 children for the training under the "American Academy of Excellence", our new school.
  • Have many capable people speaking Amharic (the local language in Ethiopia) and English, who can assist you while there and carry on the work when you leave. 
  • Have secure facilities to store the equipment until you are ready to distribute them.
  • We have never worked with OLPC before. 
  • The school, American Academy of Excellence is located in a rural area, outside of the city of Debre Zeyit.
  • Because there is not school in the area, we are building a school for the community.
  • The local housing is mud huts with mud floors.
    • They are one room structures with people building a fire on the ground in their hut to cook over.
    • You would be staying at a BCI guest house about 15 minutes away.  You will have running water, electricity and a bed.
    • Because we host hundreds of missionaries/volunteers from first-world countries, we maintain guest houses where they can stay.
    • The cost for 8 weeks is $3,749, and includes airfare, room, board, transport in Ethiopia... pretty much all expenses.
  • You would need to cover vaccinations, passport and visa cost.
  • Long Term Sustainability:
    • We have a staff there in Ethiopia, of local Ethiopian who speak English very well.  Additionally, we have missionary volunteers year-round. 
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