Ashenafi, one of our workshop participants, is working for a Tsaara radio program.

He told me about his last visit in the village where he was born. One of the elders came to him and said with tears in his eyes: "Do you see this child, my grandchild? So many years we wish for roads and a medical station to be built, and for our language to be written down. Now I am old, and I will die soon. Please, make your most possible effort so that this child will be able to learn reading and writing our language!"

Ashenafi himself had tears in his eyes while reporting this to us at the workshop in March 2018.

The following June we were able to publish a first reading book, and deliver it to the community.

...  I will go on a journey with Wycliffe Ethiopia

1) literacy for adults

- training more Tsaara literacy teachers, so that in each of their villages a reading class can be started

- advising Tsaara story tellers how to become authors for new books for advanced readers

2) language studies

- researching Tsaara grammar with the Bible translation team, so that the New Testament draft will become consistent concerning orthography rules

- developing a trilingual dictionary (Tsaara - Amharic - English)

3) children's education

- training Tsaara primary school teachers in translation principles, so that they are equipped to prepare a mothertongue curriculum for Tsaara children