The Wild Frontiers Foundation is raising funds to help re-install a computer lab in the high school in Lalibela after it was looted in 2021 during the armed conflict in the Tigray region of Northern Ethiopia.
Sadly at that time all 50 computers where either stolen or damaged, leaving just one usable computer.
Wild Frontiers founder and MD, Jonny Bealby, visited the co-ed school during a trip to Ethiopia earlier this year, where he met with teachers and members of Camara Education, a charitable organisation that recycles and refurbishes computer equipment to install in schools in Africa.
'The teachers impressed on me just how important the computer labs were, with students between the age of 15 to 18 not only learning computer literacy, and how to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint, but also coding and web building, which was providing many with highly sought after skills'.
The Wild Frontiers Foundation has a long-standing relationship with Camara Education, having worked with the charity to fund and install computers within three Ethiopian schools since 2012.
Within each lab, 25 computers were installed, including software, and teacher training in digital literacy and hardware maintenance.
Our aim now is to raise £5000 to equip a new computer lab for the students of the Lalibela high school.
Any help you can offer to bring technology back to the learning of both female and male students, would be hugely appreciated.
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