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 ...
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 ...
This Christmas, at Mediterranea, we received some good news: at last it seems that we have found a substitute mother for a child at Abugida who is on the point of becoming orphaned. This little boy, of six years old, only has his mother and she, tragically, is gravely ill with AIDS and terminal breast ...
We met Zoraida four years ago when we first started in the Abugida school in Ethiopia. She is a girl who had everything until the HIV+ illness, that killed her husband, affected her and has radically changed her life. She had to return to Akaki to live with her family who, because of her illness, ...
The person on the right of the photo below is Sami. Sami is the representative of Education for the Akaki Kaliti kebele (neighborhood) in Ethiopia. Sami is very intelligent, with an enviably quick mind. Sami is totally blind. In his youth he was the only blind boy in the area to attend a state school. ...
There are not twenty mattresses, Neither a pea nor a castle; They sleep on the earth floor; In rooms made of paper walls. In my stories the princesses Are born with red blood, Are dressed in rags, Have skin that shines like satin. The princesses of my stories Don’t eat every day, But show a ...
Yesterday was a happy day in the public school Fitawrari Abaninya of Akaki, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The 70 children, most 10 years old, who began a bridge course in reading, writing and basic mathematics last April, have finished the course. Mediterranea covered the expenses of these courses by paying for school materials for the children ...
Remember our friend Mikias? The young Ethiopian boy who has been spending a little time with us in Mallorca for treatment of his chronic osteomyelitis? Well, after four months, the clinging, multiresistant and mutating bacteria that has been an inseparable companion to Mikias for the last four years, and the cause of the destruction of ...
We received this wonderful report from one of our “Cutie Pies” attending the Abugida Nursery School in Ethiopia, telling us about how well they all seem to be spending their days at the new school: Dear Mediterranea, So, the first few days at the nursery school were strange. We all cried a lot because we ...
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...
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