As summer draws to a close, travellers return home. Schools reopen. Regular rhythms restart. And so it is, also, with MMR projects. Oasis Tadjourah was the first to reopen, as it is closed for only two months. Thanks to the amazing local staff, Oasis reopens every year at the beginning of September. This year, the …
Oasis Balbala – A library for experiential learning
End of Year Report - June 2025 History and Description Oasis Balbala Library was founded in autumn 2023 and has been open since March 2024. It is located in the Balbala suburbs of Djibouti City and is patterned on the long-established Tadjoura Library. Balbala parents tend to have many children but have low incomes so …
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Oasis Tadjourah – A Full and Busy Season
Oasis Tadjourah has had a full and busy season. More and more children from around the neighbourhood find their way into the centre to read the books and play games. The kitchen set is especially well-loved so if a new person visits, it's highly likely they will be offered an assortment of food and drink …
Progress: Three Steps to Learning – a Story from a Teacher at Oasis Balbala
Have you ever thought about what progress looks like? Maybe the term makes you think of political campaign slogans, science fiction novels or new groundbreaking developments in healthcare. For me, progress makes me think of three little steps. Here is the story to explain why. Oasis Balbala is located in the heart of a neighbourhood …
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Reading for beginners at Oasis Balbala
Although Oasis is not a school, it has a variety of educational games and activities to help the children learn and grow. Exposure to books is critical to children as it helps their brains develop and being exposed to language helps the children grow and expand their own language. With a lot of the younger …
New Ground
Two steps forward, one step back… With any new project, progress is slow. And while Emmanuel English Language Centre is not a new project, it is in a new location and in many ways that is the same thing. The groundbreaking and moving into the community is slow. The building is physically there but the …
Oasis, Tadjoura 2024
The history of Oasis Centres can accessed in Oasis Library - the Early Days while the current, 2024, story is available in Oasis, Tadjoura and Oasis, Balbala. This blog is about the recent developments in Oasis Tadjoura. The Oasis Centre in Tadjourah was closed for a few months over the summer but it has been …
Oasis Balbala – open and active
The Oasis centre in Balbala on the outskirts of Djibouti city opened on Saturday, 28th September ready and excited to greet the neighbours again. So far the opening has gone well with many children coming in the afternoons and evenings. Oasis is open four half days a week for the children. The centre is so …
New site! New group! New term! New start!
Ecole Emmanuel is open! After closing in January 2024, moving to the City of Ali Sabieh, and waiting all summer, the school officially opened on 21st September 2024. The grand opening started at 10am. Local dignitaries, community members, and neighbours were all invited. The school director spoke briefly, addressing the group in English with translations, …
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‘Levelled’ Readers
There are lots of different ways to learn English. And depending on the student, different methods work better than others. One of the great things about EELC is that there is a choice of means to learn English so each learner can discover which way works best for them. There are grammar classes for the …
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