As in the first story about Ethiopia explained, the group of SAP’ Executives visited various ‘School Feeding’ projects with members of the UN WFP.
One of their first stops was at a school and orphanage in Mekele. This School Feeding supported institution picks up children from families affected by HIV and helps with HIV prevention activities. In towns such as Mekele, the HIV/AIDS-ration is about 15 to 19.9 percent and lot’s of children are orphaned because of that disease. If parents die in Ethiopia, firstly friends and family members care about the children. Only in case, that this first safety net is not holding, need the children help and shelter from institutions like this.
This orphanage also has a library, which is not very well stocked and the children have to share books among themselves when reading. But the visitors realized quickly that the children are happy to have books at all, no matter with whom they had to read them. To the question what types of books they need most, a 14-years-old spokesperson answered: “Math books! Because to become a math teacher, one must understand numbers.” 
