New in 2010: Adopt a Student Action

Jet Grootantink, coordinator CAS program, visited the Wolaitta Liqa School for the first time in june 2010 - Click here for her travel journal!  Jet and ISOB team became aware of the ambitions and the needs of this school. Next to come is the Adopt a Student Action....

Now that a connection between ISSE students and the Wolaitta Liqa school students has been established our help can be more specific!

What are the ambitions of the bright but poor students?

 click here for a powerpoint presentation that shows the ambitions of the Liqua school students.

What are the needs of the school?

Schoolmaterials, laboratory equipment, extra Classrooms, Quality education, A school bus, Cost-of-living allowance of 12 Euro per child per month, dormitory (special for girls, living in the city is unsafe)

How can we help?

This year Jet and her students want to start the Adopt a Student Action;  ISSE Students will work on the plan and find as many parents as possible to "Adopt a student with a minimum of the 12 euros per month".  More news about this action will follow....

About the Ethiopia Help Project

Since January 1999 ISSE (International Secondary School Eindhoven) Students carry out the "Ethiopia Help Project". The aim of this long-term project is twofold:

1. to involve ISSE students in informing parents and other students about the Ethiopia project and organize fund raising activities.
2. to set up some connection and interchange between the ISSE students and the Ethiopian students.  

Every year new team members take over the "Ethiopia Help Project" and continue the activities. At their school students give presentations on what school conditions in Ethiopia are like. The team organize collections of school books and other useful classroom aids and take initiative to setting up various activities to raise funds. It is part of their CAS program.

CAS stands for Creativity, Action and Service. It is a scheme which is an important part of the IB Diploma, and continues education outside the classroom. It is an opportunity for students to develop their own skills and interests, and to contribute to the community of which they are a part. It is intended to help them develop as an individual, through the process of self-assessment and evaluation.

Former fundraising Actions of ISSE students:

• The first group of students organized a sponsored walk from Eindhoven to Amsterdam.
• The second group involved in a sponsored cycle ride to The Hague, a distance of around 170 kilometers;
• The third group held a sponsored training weekend at the Rhine Army Parachute Association where students and staff were jumping from a plane.
• October 2002 a large donation of books has been brought to Amsterdam by the ISSE students of the Ethiopia Help Project.
• The fourth group of students organized a sponsored cycling tour through Holland. This action raised the largest amount of money and broke the record of all others teams so far.
• In 2004/05 ISSE actions were adopted by Wilde Ganzen in Hilversum as a "Youth for Youth action"! Wild Geeze doubled their collected funds up to 70% for the construction of "Soddo Public Library".
• 2006/07 student groups contributed over 400 Euro each! ISOB added this money to the Library project. The money has been used for the dispatch of school books and computers to the Woliatta Liqua Public school in 2009.
• The 2009/10 group have made a questionaire for WODA about the needs of the newly build Liqua school. This group will work out a plan of action according to the answers that WODA gave. 

Most students in Ethiopia lack access to information that is freely available to the students of the Developed world. The precious investment of the ISSE students to the students in South Ethiopia is therefore of uncountable value to the long term development of Secondary Education in Ethiopia.