Following her tragic death, the parents, family and friends of the late Barbara Gill raised more than €100,000 for Self Help Africa, to build a school in the remote Eritrean village.
Barbara Gill had herself visited the village with Self Help Africa two years earlier - and had been so shocked by the poor conditions that she had pledged to raise funds, so that the children of Adi Gebru could have a better school.The elderly parents of an Irish schoolteacher who died tragically in early 2007, travelled to Eritrea recently to perform the official opening of a new school that was built in her memory.
Margaret and William Gill from Offaly, Ireland, travelled with Self Help to Adi Gebru, where they unveiled a memorial to their daughter at the site of a school that has been built in her memory. Following her tragic death, the parents, family and friends of the late Barbara Gill raised more than €100,000 for Self Help Africa, to build a school in the remote Eritrean village.
Barbara Gill had herself visited the village with Self Help Africa two years earlier - and had been so shocked by the poor conditions that she had pledged to raise funds, so that the children of Adi Gebru could have a better school. |
