Ethiopia projects by numbers

135 are the children we have in our school in Yeka and we employ 13 people there. 2000 euros a month approximately is what it costs us.
165 is the number of children we have in the Abugida school in Akaki where we employ 18 staff. This costs us about 2200 euros.
It is estimated that one person employed in Africa supports on average 10 other people. Therefore Mediterranea through the jobs created indirectly helps support up to 310 people.
More than 900 meals are served every day to children in our schools in Ethiopia.
Counting students, staff and those that indirectly depend on these programs, about 610 people live thanks to these projects.
1000 euros is the monthly budget we have for medical supplies for the health centres in Yeka , Akaki and Kaliti.
240 euros will be what renting premises in Addis Ababa for our future HQ in Ethiopia will cost us.
20 euros a month is approximately what it costs us to feed three times a day, educate and dress a child in our schools.

And we are only 130 members in the organisation...... Imagine what we could do if we were 300!

AGM 2008

Dear Members
On the 24th of October at 5pm we will hold the Mediterranea NGO AGM in the Sta.Ponsa Country Club.
We hope to count with your presence.
If you should not be able to come we will inform you about it through email.
Warm regards,
Michael Stoma (President)

If you have not recieved this as an email it means that we have a wrong address for you. Please send us an email so we can correct our address book.
Thank you.

At last, Mediterranea Medical teams for Ethiopia!

We have at laaaaaast been authorised to send in medical teams to work as volunteers in Addis Ababa. Our first team is ready to head out in the next two weeks form Barcelona and no doubt this will encourage other teams of volunteers. This has not been easy and is a particularly good piece of news as the help these people can provide is of great importance and of course, greatly needed.

Mothers Lodge

Dr.Philip sent us an update on the evolution of the building of the Mothers Lodge. He feels that the job might be finished by Xmas. This would be great as we could inaugurate it early in the new year along with our physiotherapy department.

Reading and writing lessons for women.

It seems a few men crept in to the classes, I guess we will just have to let them stay on. The students are full of enthusiasm and keen to learn. These classes were stared at the same time we started to include first year primary in to the school.

The classes in the Yeka school started in the third week in September. We have now contracted all the staff for the kitchen, dining hall, and the guardians who will be providing security 24hrs a day. At the same time the new teaching staff who will help the senior teachers have been contracted.
We will have three classrooms for the smaller children (140 of them) and the elder ones will use the dining room as a class room.
The Yeka school is special in that it accepts children of any age who have never had the chance of going to school before. There they will spend two years till they catch up with their contemporaries. Rain slowed down the final phase of the construction of the dining hall. But we are up and running now.

Roland and the staff at the Hotel Gran Vista

Every week Roland (a member of Mediterranea) and his staff carry out an activity to raise funds for our projects. Their support is very important for our projects.

We would like it if other businesses would follow in their generous steps.