A useful website run by a Swedish father and daughter, Bengt and Gennet Herrman, that lists organisations worldwide working to help Ethiopia. www.aidethiopia.com

A global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs. www.ashoka.org

A new mobile social reading platform, connecting writers and readers around the world. Ether publishes "made for mobile" Quick Reads straight to Smart Phones, the fastest growing digital reading device on the planet. Discover talented new and bestselling writers right from your pocket. Kate's short story, Olive Tree at Sunset, can be downloaded from Ether. www.etherbooks.com

An award-winning professional photographer, Janine globetrots all over the world to take stunning photographs of weddings. She donated the Samsung digital camera that Kate uses in Ethiopia to take photographs for this website. www.janinehallphotography.com

A professional writer, Nina Milton runs courses on creative writing. Kate is doing one of Nina's Kitchen Table Notepad programmes called Enchanted Pen, which is a distance-learning course on writing for children. http://kitchentablewriters.blogspot.com

A publisher of short fiction, micro-fiction and poetry by new and established authors. Two commended pieces of Kate's short fiction were published in an anthology called Pod available from Leaf. www.leafbooks.co.uk

A UK-based charity working to support education in Ethiopia by linking schools between the UK and Ethiopia as well as funding resourcing projects and teaching spoken English in Ethiopian schools. Link Ethiopia accepts donations for Empress Mentewab School. www.linkethiopia.org

The college offers distance-learning courses in Creative Writing, Art, Photography, Textiles and Music to students worldwide. www.oca-uk.com

A charity that Kate set up in 2000 to help needy animals in Ethiopia. www.dinkenesh.org

A charity that Kate set up in 1998 to help needy children in Ethiopia. www.kindutrust.org

Funded by the Arts Council, this website allows writers to review each other's unpublished short stories and opening chapters of novels. www.youwriteon.com