Schools

Future School Projects

We are seeking support for future school projects

The Award to your right was made in 2008 to our local partners EYES, for their work in enhancing, access, quality and equity of education in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.

"Only Africa can develop Africa and you can't achieve anything unless you work with Africans" "[you] need to understand Africa and how it thinks and works" "None of the...advocates of aid for Africa are African" "Aid can speed up development that people have already decided to carry out for themselves and have the capacity to do" "it's about doing lots of little things better at grass roots level (with) the emphasis on doing" "small amounts of aid can work well in local contexts" (c) Richard Dowden in his superb book "Africa" 2008 Portobello Books ISBN 978 1 84627 154 0

We do not consider our support as "Aid" in the conventional sense. These school projects are what the communities themselves want and have already committed themselves to by starting construction or gathering local materials. We are helping facilitate what they want to do by providing a local Engineer and supervised funding which are both currently beyond these local communities capacity to raise.

All school projects are only accepted on recommendations by our partners EYES after recommendation by the local Bureau of Education (BoE). We work in fully integrated manner with the BoR and local communty. We only adopt any new community elementary school upgrading projects with a fully commited local community and school staff which are essential to any success. None of our schools have any services like water, elewctricity or communications which is more indicative of the areas we are working in.

When we commit to a school we do what we promise, although whatever we do will depend on our ability to raise funds.

Once a school is completed it is handed over in its entirity to the community and BoE to maintain and provide teachers respectively, so it is effectrively self-supporting from Day 1.

We have further schools awaiting our support from 2010 onwards. Some will initially be done by self-help community labour with A-CET providing technical over-sight and materials. The larger projects will be Contractor supervised using local labour.

Sponsor a classroom for 50+: £7,000 (four rooms in one block). 25 desks for 50: £500 (£20 each). Library/Activity Room £12,000, Staff Room £6,000 & Store £6,000 (all in one block), Latrine for eight: £6,000. We also need other items like blackboards, notice boards, shelves, desk and chairs. Phone 0800-652-9475 or contact David on dgs@a-cet.org to discuss or make a pledge to pay over time.

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