Let's Go to Maji

Explore the beautiful remote wilderness of southern Ethiopia and learn to read in Ethiopian languages in Let’s Go to Maji, where the Dizi people sing from hill to hill and the monkeys and leopards roam the mountainsides. Lush watercolors of the forested southern Ethiopian landscape complement bilingual text in English and Ethiopian languages including Amharic, Tigrinya or Afaan Oromo. Maji is an ancient area of Ethiopia where the first British Consulate was built. The Dizi people who inhabit the area are forest people who mourn their shrinking environment, and work to protect what remains.

Caroline Kurtz learned to read in Maji, where she spent her early school years. She returned to teach English there, and now is working to bring power and clean water to the area with off-the-grid sustainable solutions.