Inclusivity – Open Hearts Big Dreams

Keeping Learning Alive Through 1,000+ Days Without School

Ellenore Angelidis — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:09:55 +0000

Keeping Learning Alive Through 1,000+ Days Without School A Community Story from Rural Ethiopia Yohannes Bimrew When the sun rises over the Choke Mountains in Gojjam, children used to begin their long walk to school. They followed narrow paths, crossed rocky ground, and faced cold, windy mornings just to learn. Birtukan was one of them. Every day, she and her friends made…

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IBBY Ethiopia and Open Hearts Big Dreams Announce Exciting New International Developments

Ellenore Angelidis — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:56:25 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Yoseph Ayalew phone: 251 965 696 969 / 911 227 650 / email: yosephopenheartbigdreams@gmail.com Ellenore Angelidis phone: 425-295-8841 / email: ellenore@openheartsbigdreams.org IBBY Ethiopia and Open Hearts Big Dreams Announce Exciting New International Developments March 2024 – The Ethiopian Section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY…

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Connecting to Roots and Giving Back Through Children’s Books

Ellenore Angelidis — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 19:34:11 +0000

My name is Nadine Roose. I am 17 years old and I am a senior at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California. My mom is Ethiopian, and my dad is Dutch and almost every summer since I was 5, my family and I have visited Ethiopia. I always stay with my grandparents in Addis Ababa, but throughout my visits I see many aunts, uncles, and cousins. I love going to Ethiopia, I feel at home there and…

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Bilingual Children’s Books delight Ethiopian and Greek kids in Greece

Ellenore Angelidis — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 05:37:35 +0000

We have a wonderful collaboration with Pelargos that helps bring Greek and Amharic versions of some our favorite books to kids in Greece. Below is a translation, thank you Michael Angelidis, from a recent article in Greece about this initiative. For those that read Greek, here is the original Did you know that Andromeda, the well-known princess from Greek Mythology – who is also a…

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Advice from a OHBD CS Grad: Let’s build a future that the next generation will be thankful for

Ellenore Angelidis — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:00:49 +0000

In late 2020, we were awarded a grant from the American Corners to run Computer Science and Entrepreneurship Boot Camps along with a series of leadership talks. It was the most challenging of environments with conflict and the virus each presenting what seemed like insurmountable challenges. The OHBD team had to consistently reinvent and reimagine to support our students from Dire Dawa…

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Celebrating Jane Kurtz IBBY Reading Promoter Award and her volunteer efforts with OHBD – Blog Post Three the Creative Process for OHBD Ready Set Go Books Project

Ellenore Angelidis — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 22:31:37 +0000

Process and Creative are often oxymorons. But with this project we needed to make them play nice together. We need to be creative without losing sight of our goals to create many culturally appropriate bilingual books for children in Ethiopia and beyond. And we needed process that would overwhelm or undermine being creative especially since much of our team are volunteers and don’t work…

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Global Emerging Leadership in Action: OHBD CS Graduate in Ethiopia Supporting LJL Founded by High School Junior in Seattle

Ellenore Angelidis — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:19:16 +0000

I am an incoming High School Junior, founder of Linguistics Justice League (LJL) and a Youth Board Member of Invest in Youth. I have been working at the intersection of Data Science, NLP and ML, earning a Society of Women Engineers Next (SWE) STEM in Action award, National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) award and a publication in the Journal of Student Research.

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A Book’s Tale

Ellenore Angelidis — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 20:00:03 +0000

Hi! My title is Little Lion. My sentences are short because I like to teach kindergarten children who are just learning to put sounds to words. One of my best features is the colorful pictures on my pages. The children love looking at my pictures! They invite them into the story about life in Ethiopia. I am part of a large family of children’s books called Ready-Set-Go books for all reading…

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OHBD Language Preservation – Dizin Children’s Books for Maji Ethiopia: “an amazing treasure”

Ellenore Angelidis — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 18:23:42 +0000

How do we do it—pull meaning from symbols on paper, or from bits of light and dark in flickering electric impulses? This miracle is called reading. I learned to read in Maji, in deep southern Ethiopia. My mother taught me in my own childhood language of English. As I filled workbooks at our dining room table, I heard Ethiopian children in the little school nearby chanting their reading lessons…

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Creating OHBD RSG Books to Enhance Reading Comprehension Skills

Ellenore Angelidis — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 17:44:13 +0000

Learning to decode words — transforming marks on a page (or screen) into sounds in our brains — is one big reading skill. Learning to read those words fluently in sentences is another. The Creative Team considers those skills as we create Ready Set Go Books. But other skills are needed for understanding the sentences and paragraphs we read. When I was a senior lecturer in the English Department…

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