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Teachers from one of the most
technologically-advanced schools in the
country are today travelling to Africa
to find out how children there manage
without computers or books.Chloe Farrant
and Antonia Dudley, from Broadclyst
Community Primary, plan to set up a link
between the school and those in Ethiopia
after their trip there.
Teachers at Broadclyst use space-age
style computer suites to teach children
but at Bekumsa Biya School in Nekemte
there are around 100 youngsters in just
one class.
As part of the trip, which has been
organised through the Exeter Ethiopia
Link, Chloe and Antonia are taking some
educational resources for the children
in Africa.
After arriving in Addis Ababa today, the
pair will meet Penny Pullen, a member of
the Exeter Ethiopia Link committee,
before travelling the 250 miles to
Nekemte.
Mrs Pullen told Ato Daniel Bekele, the
new director of Bekumsa Biya School,
about the work in Broadclyst and he then
asked the Devon teachers to help him
develop a new educational programme.
Broadclyst headteacher Peter Hicks said:
"Our two schools may be separated by a
world of cultural, economical and even
technological differences - but we all
share one passion, and that passion is
education."
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