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Updated: December 11, 2007

Scientists and students donate school supplies
(December 2004)

Research scientists and graduate students at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) at Colorado State University donated $700 to purchase school supplies for primary schools near Bale Mountains National Park. The majority of funds were used to purchase textbooks and materials for the teachers, while the rest was used for student supplies and learning games. Materials included textbooks on georaphy, botany, physics, zoology, geology, and math, and dictionaries in English, Amharic, and Oromian. Posters of the world, endemic animals, and the alphabet were also delivered to schools, along with 300 pocket dictionaries and over 1,700 pencils for students.

The materials, distributed among ten schools, were officially presented at the school in Dinsho by TMF staff and BMNP officials. They were honored by a brief ceremony with teachers, regional educators, and students then touredthe classrooms, school grounds, and a community forestry project started by the school's nature club.