Dr. Deberework Debebe, Dean of College of Law & Governance, Hawassa University, receiving ILBF books from Mulugeta Woldetsadik.

This is to gratefully acknowledge the receipt of books donated by the ILBF to Hawassa University. We believe that these books will significantly enrich our library book collections and benefit our students, academic staff, and researchers immensely.

Dr. Eng. Fisiiha Getachew, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Hawassa University We received all the books and we are making it ready to avail in our library to students, for its part College of Law & Governance expressed its delight at the donated books and expressed its sincere appreciation to the organization behind the donation ILBF which is the first organization to make such donation to College of Law & Governance, Hawassa University, particularly to Katrina Crossley (CEO of ILBF), and all ILBF staff.

Dr. Deberework Debebe, Dean of College of Law & Governance, Hawassa University

Mulugeta Woldetsadik played a vital role in the success of the donation, for both Hawassa University and as an intermediary for Dilla University. He has reflected on his international professional networking experience in his Professional Blog:

Consequently, I have been connected & communicated with International Law Book Facility (ILBF) on the web particularly with Katrina Crossley, ILBF CEO on her Twitter, and create & build a healthy network of professional work partnerships between ILBF & Hawassa University. What makes different this ILBF Law Books Donation is that both Katrina & I were operating the facilitation process at the time of lockdown via Twitter and email from our home.

I am very pleased for the law books donation from International Law Books Facility. I hereby approved that the donated books are technical processed & added to our library Online Public Access Catalogue/OPAC/ in order to give service to our students, thanks once again to ILBF.

Behailu Eshetu, Head of School of Law, Hawassa University

The ILBF is very fortunate to be able to assist two Universities in one shipment, as this considerably reduces the costs and administrative burden for everyone. We hope to make a further shipment to Ethiopia over the next few months to provide additional legal resources in support of law students and academics.

Finally, the ILBF relies heavily on the collaboration of all our partners, both in the UK and overseas, and we are particularly grateful to Mulugeta for his assistance with this shipment. Having expert help to manage the goods clearance process once the books reach their destination is invaluable!

If you’d like to find out more about how these shipments were prepared during a worldwide pandemic and the incredible help the ILBF received from Thomson Reuters, see our article on Shipments in the time of Covid-19.

For more information, visit the following link: https://ilbf.org.uk/2021/05/latest-donations-reach-ethiopia/