Liberating a Training Challenge in Sidama

January 21, 2016

Ethiopia Sidama region of the traveling photographer Ron Hallam, the children deprived of educational opportunity to explore an initiative which has helped to return to school.

Ethiopia Sidama region is one of the world's poorest places. Most of the people earning less than $ 2 per month and rely on agricultural products in order to maintain their livelihood. Seasonal products and the sales they have grown from a small amount of flour, salt, in order of importance, are buying things like sugar.

Although free education in Ethiopia, items needed for families of children go to school, even if they are forced to go small necessities such as books. Although education is inaccessible for thousands of families.

In sub-Saharan Africa region, and the number of children who can not receive education outside of school found 30 million in the last 5 years. The number of children deprived of education in rural areas is more than twice those in urban areas.

In 2011, he could only finish primary school children and 41%. However, the proportion of highly educated adults are still very high ... natural disasters, such as periodic riots and violence is flooding the Regional extreme poverty coupled with very heavy results. This means there is a lot of work going on in the region and still do despite all difficulties in a country like Ethiopia are also working to reverse this situation. Believing the freedom and happiness can come only through education initiatives in several cases at hand this problem.

The initiative also called Speed School, only three years of training in a period of 10 months makes up for lost time by compressing the children. Before taking any training opportunities are not provided, books, pens and so on. by exposure to an accelerated training with training tool is provided for returning to school is brought to the level of their peers.

Only 25 students per class is then divided into group training and classes in the coefficients of five. Children's songs spread around the room, they quickly learn the curriculum through games and group activities. Retention and comprehension-oriented action is being taken literally with training of the senses. Applied learning techniques are prepared in three languages: Amharic, the local bishop, Ethiopia's national language and English.

Children receiving their education, mothers meet every two weeks, under a tree outside Collecting and health issues, discussing everything from the business plan.

Amarech store employees in their business to the nearest village to the village to do the shopping mall was walking up to 15 minutes before starting. Amarech as women to start their own businesses and their families and about 10-15 pounds to provide a relatively rapid growth of the community needs to be able to support only a very small seed fund.