LEFT: First picture proudly sent to TTE by Nick Crane. School boys in Bahir Dar Ethiopia, showing a TTE-Visual ring binder. They, by the way, react enthusiastically to a girl, modelling on the cover (her parents came from Indonesia to Holland, a student at the school where I used to teach).

Our simple to use teaching tools are a great asset at any school, but especially at schools where nearly everything is lacking and the schoolbooks might not even have illustrations. So every year we send at Mr. Crane’s instructions from our head office in the Netherlands to far away places, one or more pallets with our Visual Encyclopedias and number of projectors and screens.

Click on photo. Tanzania, hospital near Lake Victoria (song and dance): Mr Crane is honoured with songs and dances from nurses and students after providing a working water system and a projector, screen and visuals (TTE’s ‘Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body’). Nick Crane now takes his children over to Africa to see how things develop and he brings new series to other places.
The Amharic State Authorities, governing the North West of Ethiopia learned via his activities about our teaching system and in 2001, it was most rewarding for Mr Crane that all TTE-series were purchased for all their secondary schools. A similar spin-off effect is expected shortly in Eritrea.

Mr. Crane ensured me that it will be a pleasure for him to guide any person or institution with plans for similar activities. If your budget is more than €15.000, he is willing to go on site and arrange everything. He might even take you out in his own airplane on his next visit to a far away place! TTE always works with educational authorities and teacher training centres and provides substantial assistance for training. No-one is better prepared for this job than Bruce Tamagno, widely experienced in the field - see below.

Introducing the new technology to teachers at the Menelik School in Addis Abeba, the oldest secondary school in Ethiopia, founded in 1903. The school has 3000 daytime pupils plus 1700 students attending evening courses after work - in classrooms with 50 to 70 students. In the countryside (below) most secondary schools have 80 to a 120 pupils in a class. This teacher’s only wall map was over 50 years old - Congo was correct (again, after ‘Zaïre’). By now most schools have electricity. But when this fails, a diesel generator powers the overhead projector, like here at the Nazareth School, south of Gondar.