New website

The new website is finally up and running! It has take a long time but I finally made the switch and transferred the new Wordpress site over to For-ethiopia.

Using a fantastic theme by TheMolitor we managed to get some of the old content across and have drafted some new pages. More importantly the Facebook and Twitter feeds link nicely and photos can be drawn in from our Flickr account.

The old site can still be found at www.old.for-ethiopia.com although old links on other sites no longer work but hopefully the new site will quickly update.

We have a couple of events coming up in the next few months, details of which can be found on the website.

Solarsense to team up with For-ethiopia

We are pleased to announce that Solarsense will be raising money for us and plan to go out to Ethiopia to install some solar panels on the health clinics in Addis Alem.

Solarsense have carried our a number of projects overseas for charities and we hope that this could be the start of a long-term relationship.

Staff of Solarsense will be running the Bristol Half Marathon in September to raise money for their trip.

They will also be at Glastonbury this year and have a stand displaying their energy products. They will also be allowing festival goers to charge their mobiles with the pedicab, which is fitted with a solar panel for a donation to For-ethiopia.

Solarsense are installing one of the largest solar installation in the UK at Worthy farm and you can follow their blog here.

A Taste for Ethiopia is back

A Taste for Ethiopia on October 17th 2009 is your chance to experience real Ethiopian food and culture in Bristol.

Tickets cost £15 to book please email: event@for-ethiopia.com

The venue is Woodlands, Belgrave Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2AB.

Help needed

We really want to get a new website up and running and would like to go for a content management system to enable all the trustees to be able to post to the site and reduce the reliance on a webmaster.

Ideally we want to use a free system such as Joomla! but have no experience in what to use and how to go about setting it up. We would need to port across much of the content from our existing site although once up and running we should be able to manage this ourselves.

So, we are after help! If anyone is into CMS and would be willing to do some work for us free of charge, please get in touch either via our website or add a comment to the blog.