Today we had the privilege to meet Jane Kurtz who is the co-founder of
Ethiopian Reads and a published author at our church, Olivet Lutheran. Jane is an amazing woman who grew up in Ethiopia, has a passion for reading, and a terrific story teller. Along with Yohannes Gebregeorgis, they founded
Ethiopian Reads in 1998 with the intent to make books available to Ethiopian kids. Their first library called Shola Children's Library opened their doors in 2003. Per Jane, over 40,000 Ethiopian children visited this library the first year! To learn more about Ethiopian Reads and how you can become involved, visit
www.ethiopiareads.org.
Jane Kurtz is an author to many children's books. If you would like to learn more about Jane's books, you can visit her website at www.janekurtz.com. I am so excited to begin reading these fabulous books to Maya!
Here we are with Jane Kurtz
Maya loves her new books!
1 comments:
That is so Great that you were able to meet Jane. We went to the Ethiopia reads library while we were in ET and made a donation of books and also money for them to translate some additional books. They are truely doing an amazing thing!!
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