Cooperatives: Financial and personnel support to APDA in Ethiopia to build knowledge on how to start and run cooperatives. Comenced in January 2007. Report from first part of 2007.

Afar Language Development Conference: A project with the primary aim to decide on which character-set to use when writing the Afar language. Representatives from Eritrea, Djibouti and Ethiopia joined for one week in Uppsala, Sweden in May 2007. Continuation will follow in Djibouti during 2008.

Preparation for adult educational activities in Djibouti. Here a report from a reconnoitre tour (3 Mb) (only available in swedish but with interesting pictures).

Now (6-17 November 2007) a team o four from Afarfriends in Sweden will conduct an education for future "adult educational activities" teachers who will help Afars on the Djiboutian countryside to read and write. Teaching manual and reading-book is in the press and will be ready for the educational start.

Culture against AIDS: A project with UDC in Djibouti.

UDC is interpreted "Union pour Dévélopement Culturelle" and work primarily with education.

Together with Afarfriends of Sweden they started a project which aim to spread knowledge about the danger with HIV/AIDS and how to avoid it. A theatre and musical group will spread information on how to avoid HIV to a number of villages and nomads dwelling places during 2007, 2008 and 2009. Together with this they will produce music cassettes with the same message that will be distributed free of charge to minibus drivers and others. 

A report from the first part is, so far, only to be found in swedish slutrapport(sv)  or french  rapport d'activité final (1.8 Mb).

  

Report from evaluation trip in January 2006, (in swedish)

Pictures from evaluation trip,  picture supplement 1 (2,5 Mb)  picture supplement 2 (3,5 Mb)