AHEAD and A Ray of Hope Fund Adola Teachers' Education College - The two organisations have agreed to co-fund the College to purchase the educational resources the College needs to equip its newly formed English Language Improvement Centre (ELIC). The materials to be acquired soon will include: 1. Teaching Grammar 2. Presenting New Language 3. Simple Listening Activities 4. Simple Writing Activities 5. Simple Reading Activities 6. Simple Speaking Activities 7. Classroom English 8. Intercultural Activities 9. Cross-Curricular Activities 10. Practical English Usage 11. English Grammar in Use 12. Advanced Grammar in Use 13. Headway Elementary Student's Book 14. Headway Pre-Intermediate Student's Book 15. Headway Elementary Teacher's Book 16. Headway Pre-Intermediate Teacher's Book 17. English Language story books 18. Digital Camera 19. Laminator 20. 3 MP3 Players

Fund and awareness raising - The AHEAD fundraising team took part in a sport and cultural festival in West London. There were various sport activities and cultural displays – clothes, foods and drinks. The AHEAD’s team distributed AHEAD’s DVD, presented many cultural games such as saddeeqaa, qaphee, ja’aa and fe’iisaa hiik. Festival participants enjoyed the games and admired AHEAD’s good cause. A number of people made donation, obtained a copy of AHEAD’s DVD, while others pledge support. They also gave different suggestions on how AHEAD can raise funds and reach out to more supporters. A few people promised to adopt needy young people through AHEAD. The Mayor of the local Borough also came to AHEAD’S appreciated the charity’s work. The AHEAD's fundraising team AHEAD's DVD can be obtained by emailing info@aheadcharity.org or ring 0757 079 9157 The AHEAD's team with the local Mayor other officials Some of the cultural games AHEAD presented The team tried different strategies, assessed them and also divided itself into smaller groups and pairs to do the work efficiently.

Bule Hora University and AHEAD efforts continue - Bule Hora University and AHEAD contined with their efforts of building the capacity of the University. Dr Balako Gumi, Academic and Research Vice President and Dr Elfneh U. Bariso met in London and discussed strategies on how to moblise human and material resources for the University. They also travelled to Oxford and had a meeting with Dr Paul Jepson of Oxford University. After extensive discussion on the needs of Bule Hora Universities and various options to assist the University, an action plan for future collaboration was agreed. The action plan includes: · exploring a possibility of setting up an MSc programmes in areas such as Mining and Environmental Sciences · designing the curriculum for the newly planned MSc programmes · making an arrangements for Oxford PhD candidates to teach at Bule Hora University · helping with organising e-learning resources to support the Mining and Environmental Sciences programmes and other disciplines such English Languade education and pedagogy in general to enhance the University's provision · mobilising contacts to give Skpe lectures to Bule Hora University staff and students · continuing communicating and sharing ideas and documents via emails, Skype and google docs · liaising and linking with other UK agencies · assessing possibilities of grant funding to undertake research and development projects. Dr Balako explaining the needs of Bule Hora University and communities in its vicinity Dr Paul Jepson responding the Dr Balako and Dr Elfneh's explanation of the Bule Hora University's situation and what needs to be done.