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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world" -
Nelson Mandela
When spiders unite they can tie up a lion -
Ethiopian Proverb
100% of donations benefit Ehtiopian children and their families
Project Ethiopia has 501(c)(3) status
Judy & Dennis pay for all administrative and travel costs.
We buy local & hire local to benefit local economy
How We Work
- 100% of your donation goes to the projects.
- Judy & Dennis pay for all administrative and travel costs
- Our greatest resource is community support
- We give money to NO ONE - we buy all materials and implement all projects
- We buy local, we hire local when possible to build local economy
- We hire at Ethiopian wages or villagers volunteer labor since they will benefit More
For as little as 7 pennies, you can help!
- $4.70 for a school uniform
- $1.63 for school supplies for a year
- $0.07 for a bar of soap
- $1 for a reading book
- $35 for a triple desk
- $10 for a bench
- $2,300 for school well
- $365 for piped water for a school well
- $0.40 for drinking bottle
- $12,000 for school latrine
- $15 for soccer ball
- $1 for jump rope
- $17.50 for a white cane
- $4.50 for a ream of Braille paper
- $35 for a beehive
- $2 for a sickle for the women or child to weed and harvest
- $78 for a family latrine
- $400 for a concrete floor
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2010:
Project Ethiopia has helped 8 elementary schools and a school of 6,000 students grade 9 and 10.
We have constructed 5 school buildings -
- West Berayta - 3 buildings
- Giraghe school - 2 buildings
Girarghe is a school of 190 students, grades1 - 3. It was an alternate basic education school which means the village had to pay for some person to teach the children to read and write. The construction of the buildings has resulted in it becoming a government school with government paid salary for a certified teacher. We dug the well this year also.
Next September, when school opens, we will give uniforms for all 190 students. Wouldn't it be fun to be there the day they all don their new uniforms.
The school will most likely grow fast since the good buildings with their concrete floors, good windows, new shiny yellow desks, blackboards will attract nearby students. This year a latrine will be built there too.
The classroom before the new building - students sat on the dirt floor and there are holes in walls.
What a difference! Thanks to the generous support of people like you, Project Ethiopia, with the help of local tradesmen and the villagers themselves, these children now have new classrooms with concrete floors, yellow-painted desks and good window shutters. The students are delighted to come to the front of the class and answer questions on the blackboard.
Here's the school buildings finished.
The Giraghe school well ready to go.
and the inauguration of the school.
The school will grow fast now that it is a government school.
West Berayta elementary school - 1,226 students:
The classroom with painted walls, triple desks (although used by 4 students in this class of 53)
The faculty meeting in the new administration/library building - bright painted walls, good door and windows.
The building finished last year and the admin/library building as seen through the window of the old building.
Painting the 3rd building (classrooms) showing library to the left.
Our 2nd school latrine is all above ground so there is no chance of contamination of ground water.
West Berayta latrine: floor for toilet pits is poured and columns ready to support toilet floors and walls.
As Project Ethiopia works with the local trades people, the skills needed for the new school construction and latrines imporve - below is the new cement block production learned during the new building
2009:
Rebuild an unsafe school:
- a new classroom building will keep grades 1 - 4 safe
- a building for grades 5 - 8 will follow
 
U.S. structural engineers declared the West Berayta Elementary School unsafe and unrepairable due to the severe cracking of the block cement walls. Cracks in the walls were from the swelling and contraction of the soil in the rainy and dry seasons.
Project Ethiopia discovered from a German engineering firm that had experience with exactly the same type of soil and conditions that building on such soil was possible...More
Completed school for grades 1-4
The photo above shows the new library and administrative building through a window in the old building. Note the ever-growing cracks in the wall.
Give Access to Education
1,313 children received a uniform, exercise books, pen, bar of soap, story book to keep*, and for this year; a second set of clothes...More
Study Hard, Play Hard
321 Jump Ropes for the Girls
22 Soccer Balls for the Boys
Help Blind Students
Each white cane = independence for 2 people!
The person who has guided the blind person can now be free to go to school themselves.
Judy helping a student with his new cane.
Learning to become self-sufficient.
Two students using their new canes.
Reams of braille paper are also provided, as well as plastic grids and stylus/pins for the students to take notes during class. They take notes by pushing through the heavy paper to make holes. They poke holes from right to left in the paper. Then they turn the paper over to read from the rough side from left to right.
Desperately Needed - Money to Buy New Library Books
 These few books serve all that one school has for its entire library for 1,200 students.
Accomplishments so far in Education:
Qty. to Date Price of Each Item
2 $4,780 - new 4-classroom school building and library/administration building
1313 $5 - school uniform, sewn large enough to last 2 year (only set of clothing for many)
1313 $2 - supplies for a year (5 exercise books, 1 pen, bar of soap)
415 $1 - their own reading book
232 $2 - second set of clothes
130 $35 - desk for 3 students - 780 students have benches (2 shifts)
226 $10 - bench for 3-4 students
22 $15 - high quality soccer ball
321 $1 - jump rope
25 $17 - white cane for a blind student
2 $4 - ream of heavy Braille paper
49 $21 - school black board materials: wood, framing, nails, paint
455 $2 - library books
2 computers and supplies
A Great Beginning - Help Us Do More!
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Projects - Education
