Helen produced illustrations for the Civics textbooks in Ethiopia, an Amharic/English bilingual storybook and an Amharic language magazine for Ethiopian children living in Europe. She also wrote a short story for the bilingual storybook and prepared the layouts for the Civics textbooks which are due to be printed and distributed shortly.
Civics and Ethical Education
Helen was involved in preparing the Ethiopian Civics and Ethical Education textbooks for publication. She edited the English language Grade 9 to 12 books and lay them out in InDesign, adding illustrations, many of which came from her own photographs and sketches. The Amharic Grade 5 to 8 textbooks were prepared in Publisher format with illustrations including many of Helen's own. She edited the English translation of these books. Finally, she wrote and illustrated the teachers' guides for the Grade 9 to 12 books with the head of the Civics and Ethical Department in the Ministry of Education, Addis Ababa.
Illustrated storybooks for Ethiopian Children
While working in Ethiopia, Helen helped produce two of the back-to-back bilingual books for Ethiopian children and included an illustrated story, Lucky Black Cat, for the Tikur Fiyeley (Black Goat) anthology which is for older children.
