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=**What we would like to do**=

We’ve explored a lot of information on the lack of education in Ethiopia, but what have we done and what are we going to do about it? SOW is an organization that is working towards a solution to diminish Ethiopia’s lack of education and schools. We have a lot of goals in mind, and here are just some of them:

First of all, we want to inform the general public that we are out there and what we’re about. If more people are aware of our organization, we can spread the word around and tell everyone our message. We are doing this through the school community and our public blog. COEEF, the organization we are modeled after, raises its awareness through various activities, their website, and a group of sponsored African children (the Mesgana Dancers) that dance for awareness. We also want to raise the same level of awareness in our community, and possibly beyond. // The Mesgana Dancers // http://chicagoparent.com/cs/blogs/windycity/archive/2007/11/16/paying-forward.aspx Already, we can see awareness being raised within Ethiopia itself by the organizations that are overlooking education in Ethiopia. With the influence of everyone that is supporting Ethiopia’s education, changes have been made. “ Community leaders and members of women’s groups are oriented to great awareness on the importance of education of girls ” – Development of Education in Ethiopia, UNESCO; this shows great change in a country where boys are favoured in both general terms and educational terms. //UNESCO’s Educational, Scientifical and Cultural Organization // Next, we want to give information on what is actually happening with Ethiopia’s lack of education. Not everyone is helping because not everyone knows about it. If we can attract more attention to Ethiopia’s education problem, then there will be more people and more activities geared towards resolving this problem. Our information is given out through our blog, which holds a variety of information. We also have already held a workshop session for both classmates and parents at our school, and we look forward to spreading more information through our blog and other resources.

If we become more successful with raising awareness, then maybe we can look towards directly helping Ethiopian children. This is one of our long term goals, and if we can go and help the children not only do we get to solve some of the problem ourselves we also can motivate others to do the same. Directly helping children is one of the solutions that can ensure that Ethiopia’s problem IS getting solved, because we can actually see it being done and see the things that are accomplished by it. Like Norm, co-founder of COEEF said: “ ** And we are doing it [saving lives] one child at a time ** ” media type="youtube" key="ngawuK7UPxQ&rel=1" height="355" width="425" There are a lot of things that we can do and are hoping to do, and these are just some of them. SOW was inspired by **coeef**, and we hope that we can be as successful as they are with Ethiopia. // ... by Jiayi // // Resources // //“And we are doing it [saving lives] one child at a time” – Norm // //http://www.coeef.org/normmessage.shtml // //Coeef // //[|http://www.coeef.org] // // The Mesgana Dancers // http://chicagoparent.com/cs/blogs/windycity/archive/2007/11/16/paying-forward.aspx  Community leaders and members of women’s groups are oriented to great awareness on the importance of education of girls” – Development of Education in Ethiopia, UNESCO http://www.ibe.unesco.org/International/ICE47/English/Natreps/reports/ethiopia_scan.pdf