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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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