In the most challenging of years, there’s a happy end in Gendit…

A picture is worth a thousand words, but seeing first hand through your own eyes is a thousand times better. How to describe what I witnessed with my eyes? You are reading this, not seeing directly, but perhaps through words and a couple of photos, I can give you an approximate sense of my experience.

We stopped to collect the plaque, the banner, a giant loaf of bread and 100 bottles of Sprite(!)

The minibus was loaded with various representatives from the ministry of education, myself and the Link Ethiopia team - no chickens today! We set off to drive the 50km to Gendit for the Breaking of the Stone Ceremony…..

I’m getting excited! Just about to get my visa for my next trip to Gendit. I’ll be taking part in ‘The Breaking of The Stone Ceremony’ which I think is the UK equivalent of the breaking of a bottle against the side of a ship. Except that it will launch the digging of the foundations for the next phase of the school build not a cruise.