In 2014, the Daya Primary and Secondary School, located in Tigray, Ethiopia, had unsafe walls and leaking roofs. Students were following the lessons standing on stones. The Butterfly Foundation built the first four classrooms, a rainwater collection tank, and six latrines for 200 students. A
The long war that lasted from 2020 to 2022 caused over 600,000 casualties in the Region of Tigray, Ethiopia, traumas, disabilities, and over one million displaced people, primarily women and girls who were used as war weapons, and subject to violence and sexual abuses. Any
A brand new school will be implemented at ADIGOBYE, Hawzen district, Tigray Region, Ethiopia, thanks to the willingness of the Carnevali Foundation to fund the construction of a primary and secondary school in Africa.
Thousands of students in schools across the Tigray Region have been forced to leave their classrooms for over three years due to the pandemic and the three-year-long war. The school benches have been stolen by the enemy or burned during the winter seasons by the
All students attending schools in the Tigray Region have been forced to stay out of their classrooms for three years, further compromising their already poor education. According to data from the Ministry of Education, over five hundred schools in the Region could not operate after
The St Joseph Millennium School was established as a kindergarten in 2001 with an enrollment of 40 pupils. Later on, the school progressed by establishing a primary school in 2007. The number of students has increased to about 400 kids as of today. The school
During our recent trip to Ethiopia, we visited some schools. We are in a position to confirm that the request for school benches is desperate, and the need to act immediately is real. We were asked to supply 544 benches for a total of 1632 children.
All the students attending the schools of the Tigray Region have been obliged to desert their classrooms for three years due to the long internal war and the COVID pandemic. The above compromised their already poor learning. During wartime, the school benches have been burned
Our present target is the construction of a Kindergarten for 170 additional students aged 3-6 in Daya village, in the northern part of Tigray, Ethiopia.
The project is intended to respond to the urgent need of two additional classrooms at Kibidaga school, in Afar Region, Ethiopia
The Daya school project, implemented in three phases, is still under execution following the war, which prevented the execution of the third project step, foreseeing the construction of a library and a teacher’s room. In 2015, four wholly furnished classrooms were made available to the
At the moment, 900 students attend the primary cycle despite the dire condition of the school, and most of them are obliged to follow the lessons sitting on stones or under the roof of an unsecured building. The school needs a complete rehabilitation and additional furnishing.
