(00:19- 00:22) We’ve been able to successfully get… (00:22- 00:24) Ethiopian children back to school, (00:24- 00:27) but in reading, writing and arithmetic skills. (00:27-00:29) research shows they are not meeting standards. (00:31-00:35) Engaging communities is an important part of the effort… (00:35-00:38) to provide access to books and reading materials… (00:39- 00:43) as well as daily opportunities for children to read. (00:43- 00:45) Through Read Community Outreach activity, (00:45-00:51) we are committed to helping teachers and communities use the many books that we’re developing. (00:51-00:56) We’re also training teachers to help the students develop their own reading materials. (00:56-01:01) We are assisting by training parent teacher student association members to… (01:01-01:06) to mobilize local resources and select and buy quality books for students. (01:07-01:11) They are also establishing reading rooms for early grade reading students…. (01:11-01:15) and using the school improvement grants to buy books. (01:16-01:19) I am pleased to know that we are introducing so many quality books… (01:19-01:25) and other reading materials into schools and communities beginning here at Soyama Primary School. (01:26-01:31) Equipped with over 100 new and existing book titles from the local market, (01:31-01:38) this school is a model of the kind of access to reading materials that’s possible throughout Ethiopia. (01:38-01:44) Take these stories home and tell your parents and your grandparents what you read at school today. (01:44-01:51) And that will make your parents happy, and that will make the people back in America happy too. (01:51-01:56) We love to see children read, and learn, and grow.