Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page. As most of you know I am off to Ethiopia in March 2012 to help build a school for kids living in poverty.

The Background: Ethiopia is one of the poorest nations ranking 157 out of 169 countries. Only 51% of the Ethiopian population has access to safe water and 23% has access to sanitation facilities.

It captured the attention in the 1980s when it had a horrific famine, and Sir Bob Geldof raised money to help people by having the Live Aid concerts.

Our project: We are helping Remeda Two Primary School in Shebedino.  It has 397 pupils (206 girls and 191 boys) aged between 6-12 years and nine teachers. The school has 6 classrooms, each of which are shared by 66 children. As you can imagine teachers find it really hard to deliver adequate teaching in such overcrowded conditions.

We are traveling out there to construct an extra 6 classrooms, and one block of latrines.  We're also hoping to supply all classrooms with school furniture, and support the setting up of a management training programme.

After reading all of the above you can see why I wanted to be involved in such an amazing project, and it is a once in a life time opportunity for me.                                                                                

I need to raise £1,500.00 so I would really appreciate it if you could help out and donate to my page.

Thanks so much Emily x