Virginia will arrive in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to the Abugida school on 8th May to start up the classrooms for blind children. In 2002, Virginia Pérez won first prize in a competition in Spain for her innovative invention. A doll – called Braillin – which helps the blind to learn Braille. Today it is very ...
The April group of volunteers are installed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at Mediterranea’s Abugida School. They are working and are happy. Each one has started with their entrusted tasks: Nacho is laying synthetic flooring in the classrooms of the nursery and blind children. In this way the floors will be softer and less cold. He ...
I’m a little girl 22 months old. I have been going to the Abugida kindergarten since it started in June of last year. My life until then was sad, as is the case with many of the children who live here in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I was born with the “evil illness” of Africa, we ...
You (friends, supporters, volunteers of Mediterranea) already know that last summer we experienced some difficulties at the Abugida schools in Ethiopia, due to a corrupt group that formed part of the administration: the Edgedet Behibret. We managed to get rid of these heartless, cruel people from the school (although they continue intriguing as much as ...
Are you an Ophthalmologist? In Akaki, some 12.5 miles from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, blindness and partial blindness are a common and serious problem for the children and teenagers in this community. The blindness and partial blindness are due to congenital cataracts, trauma, intrauterine infections, vitamin A deficiency, extreme myopias, etc. The blind and partially blind ...
Thank you to everyone who has responded to our request for help with ideas and handicraft skills, to produce items for the deaf and blind children of Akaki Mengist School, Ethiopia. We are on the way. If anyone else would like to help please write to Ana at apadrinamediterranea@gmail.com Ana is coordinating the work group. ...
First off, we shall tell you the story of the Braillin doll as a tribute to its creator Virginia Araceli Perez de Vallejo, a teacher from the province of Corrientes in Argentina. She is one of these anonymous heroines who has contributed and invented great things for humanity. Virginia is a teacher at the Corrientes ...
We’d like to share with you some of Mediterranea’s plans for this 2011 coming year. We want to dedicate ourselves more to the disabled children of Ethiopia. It is a sector of the child population which is incredibly vulnerable, children who have virtually no present or future. Sami, the education delegate of the Akaki kebele ...
At last Mediterranea has started to provide breakfast for the 198 children of the Biru Tesfa Primary School in Akaki, Ethiopia. The breakfast is composed of bread, eggs and milk, on other days rice and other nutritious ingredients. This is an important contribution to the dietary needs of these children who eat nothing or very ...
We would like to introduce you to Deratu (on the left of the photo) and Hannaniya (on the right) who are students of the Akaki Mengist Public School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. They, together with other children and teenagers, attend the two classes provided for those with sensory and psychological disabilities. Deratu and Hannaniya are ...
Please see brief recaps on various projects, volunteers and general help Mediterranea has given as a non-profit organization during...
I look at this US-based website when, in April, I last updated and moved blog posts and news items...
Virginia will arrive in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to the Abugida school on 8th May to start up the classrooms...
The April group of volunteers are installed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at Mediterranea’s Abugida School. They are working and...
Below we give an overview of the projects that we are currently working on. We run solely on volunteer...
I’m a little girl 22 months old. I have been going to the Abugida kindergarten since it started in...
You (friends, supporters, volunteers of Mediterranea) already know that last summer we experienced some difficulties at the Abugida schools...
Are you an Ophthalmologist? In Akaki, some 12.5 miles from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, blindness and partial blindness are a...
Mediterranea is a non-governmental (NGO), non-profit organization founded in Mallorca, Spain in 1999. The Organization has no internal expenses and believes that all the funds accumulated should be spent directly on people in need. The organization is made up of 100% volunteers.
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