Marci Rose remembers hearing an ambulance siren for the first time in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital city. The first cohort of ER doctors graduated from Addis Ababa University in 2013. This pioneering group of life-saving physicians is one of the many successes of the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC), a partnership between the University of Toronto and Addis Ababa University (AAU) where experts in both countries work to build robust graduate programs in Ethiopia’s capital. Even in the limited number of sessions with the children, there were improvements in their speech, language and listening abilities, says Ganek. All graduates of the speech language pathology program intend to stay and practice in the country – echoing TAAAC’s high graduate retention rate of over 90 per cent.

Source: Ethiopian News December 03, 2018 16:52 UTC