Holy Trinity helps African school peers 

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Pupils & staff at Holy Trinity School in Cookham have been fundraising for Partners For Change Ethiopia, helping their peers in Africa. But more is needed! Could you help? 

The kind staff and pupils at Holy Trinity School have been raising funds to help their peers at Tibase M. School in Debre Birhan, Ethiopia. 

Earlier this year, PFC Ethiopia Ambassador and former Holy Trinity parent Sarah Parfitt visited with the Partners For Change Ethiopia team, including John Binns, Rose Yombo Djema and Caroline Field (pictured here with Mulugeta Gebru, executive director of Ethiopian partner charity JeCCDO), delivering letters from pupils. “We were moved by the fact that, in a community where there is so much poverty and so many people displaced by conflict, there was so much joy,” says Sarah. “Some families at Tibase M. School struggle to feed, clothe and educate their children. Along with our friends from Holy Trinity and William Hogarth School in Chiswick, we’ve raised over £7,000 and opened a Breakfast Club. The bad news if that we don’t raise more we won’t be able to keep the breakfast club open. We also want to offer some mums small business training so that, together we can bring about sustainable change. 

“Amazingly, this is the fifth school/friendship link Holy Trinity School has helped us with; the other schools are: Gende Tesfa School, Biruf Tesfa School, Basso School and Chole Schools. Just to give you an idea it costs £160 to provide a child with breakfast, clothes, stationery and some TLC for a year.”