Newsletter - 1st Quarter 2010
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Dee in Hosanna
Dee is now in her sixth year of serving as a missionary educator in Ethiopia. She worked to set up a kindergarten for 200+ students near Butajira, Ethiopia. When the teachers were competent in managing their own school she went to Hosanna, Ethiopia. Now, her focus is on training teachers to become trainers of other teachers. The lab school is the Kindergarten of the Hosanna Kale Heywet Church. Dee is also working with Hanna's Orphans to set up an orphanage which opened there in July of 2009.
Dee's mailing address is: Dr. Dee Donalson, P.O. Box 38, Hosanna, Ethiopia
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Newsletter - 1st Quarter 2009
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Monday, March 16, 2009
The third gift this week
This young man told me, today, that he is 17 years old and in grade 7. Since birth, he has not been able to walk. Every day he has been a student he has walked to school on his hands and knees (which are calloused as the soles of the feet of those who walk bare-footed here in Ethiopia). Even though it is a tricycle designed for the physically challenged, it takes practice to learn to maneuver. I believe this young man will learn quickly and his mother, who was present, was also overjoyed. She said she had been crying and praying for this for a long time. God is so Good!
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Friday, March 13, 2009
God has opened the door!
My first visit the Kindergarten of the Kale Heywet Church in Hosanna. This week I started training 6 Kindergarten Teachers at this school.
The children scrambled to see the forengie (foreigner)---that was me. I have been the only American in this region for more than a year. This week I met a young man from Kentucky who has just come to serve here in the Peace Corp.
The children scrambled to see the forengie (foreigner)---that was me. I have been the only American in this region for more than a year. This week I met a young man from Kentucky who has just come to serve here in the Peace Corp.
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See what God has done this week in Hosanna
Women's Bible Study
The group is growing and so are the babies. The wives of the students are being encouraged to think of starting their own small Bible Study group wherever they go after their husbands graduate from the ministerial college in June.
The group is growing and so are the babies. The wives of the students are being encouraged to think of starting their own small Bible Study group wherever they go after their husbands graduate from the ministerial college in June.
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Thursday, February 05, 2009
New directions
Psalms 37:5
Commit your way to the Lord,
Trust also in Him,
And He shall bring it to pass.
This is a time that I really need to understand this scripture as it applies to my present situation. Many good things are unfolding as I search how to better serve here in Ethiopia. It is so evident that the college only wanted me there to meet their curriculum requirements. They are barely staying afloat in their college program so of course they are not eager to add kindergarten as another program to be responsible for.
Meanwhile, I am developing partnerships with other organizations where I can train teachers. While praying about this, I was given the idea of going to the Ethiopian communities in the US and seeking out teachers of Early Childhood Education to train to conduct team workshops for Kindergarten teachers here, The Kale Heywet Church has many kindergartens and needs trainers. Christian Children's Foundation has several KGs and also need trainers.
Hope for Children---a children's home for HIV positive children needs trainers and I conducted 2 for them 3 years ago. Hanna's Orphans is the fourth organization that needs trainers and I went with her to the President of the High Court in Hosanna last Friday to get permission to take the children, who are in prison with their moms, out to live in a group home in that community where the mothers will be allowed to visit with them monthly.
I am thinking that four teams of 6 (three Ethiopian and 3 American teachers) to be assigned to visit with each of the above programs annually for a two-week workshop is the plan to follow. It is exciting and I am looking forward to the opportunity to see many more children have a good foundation for the rest of their life as learners.
I also feel led to set up a kindergarten in the village of Hosanna, build my home there, and train teachers to manage it. Then, as I did for Project Mercy I will leave the supervisory position and set up another school to do the same.
Commit your way to the Lord,
Trust also in Him,
And He shall bring it to pass.
This is a time that I really need to understand this scripture as it applies to my present situation. Many good things are unfolding as I search how to better serve here in Ethiopia. It is so evident that the college only wanted me there to meet their curriculum requirements. They are barely staying afloat in their college program so of course they are not eager to add kindergarten as another program to be responsible for.
Meanwhile, I am developing partnerships with other organizations where I can train teachers. While praying about this, I was given the idea of going to the Ethiopian communities in the US and seeking out teachers of Early Childhood Education to train to conduct team workshops for Kindergarten teachers here, The Kale Heywet Church has many kindergartens and needs trainers. Christian Children's Foundation has several KGs and also need trainers.
Hope for Children---a children's home for HIV positive children needs trainers and I conducted 2 for them 3 years ago. Hanna's Orphans is the fourth organization that needs trainers and I went with her to the President of the High Court in Hosanna last Friday to get permission to take the children, who are in prison with their moms, out to live in a group home in that community where the mothers will be allowed to visit with them monthly.
I am thinking that four teams of 6 (three Ethiopian and 3 American teachers) to be assigned to visit with each of the above programs annually for a two-week workshop is the plan to follow. It is exciting and I am looking forward to the opportunity to see many more children have a good foundation for the rest of their life as learners.
I also feel led to set up a kindergarten in the village of Hosanna, build my home there, and train teachers to manage it. Then, as I did for Project Mercy I will leave the supervisory position and set up another school to do the same.
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