Our Schools
We increase enrollment and attendance through building accessible schools not far from childrens’ homes. We upgrade physical facilities, replacing dark, broken down mud classrooms with new cement block structures with tile floors. No longer do schools have to take Friday afternoons off in order for students to spread dung on classroom floors to keep the dust down. At each school, we also build a library, administration block, science laboratories and latrines and menstrual health management facilities. We furnish all buildings with locally made desks and chairs, and we provide sports equipment and library books. The regional education department provides teachers and textbooks.
We are very proud of what we have accomplished since coming together as an organization in 2015. In that short time we have upgraded the entire physical facilities of 12 primary schools and built 4 new primary and 7 high schools. We are implementing our holistic approach in all the 23 schools, benefiting 32,500 children in 2023. Of the total students, 165 are learning in the special needs units in nine of our primary schools.
Sebatamit pre-primary & primary School
Our first project, now flourishing with gardens and an educational gardening program
Dr. Getnet pre-primary & primary School (formerly Azena)
A centre of excellence in the Awi zone, home to innovative teaching methods and resources
Abichikili High School
One of our two high schools, already bursting at the seams because of its excellent programs
Wotet Abay pre-primary & primary School
A centre of excellence that is home to a special needs program, innovative teaching, and a flourishing educational gardening program
Misraq Ghion pre-primary & primary school (formerly abay mado First Cycle Elementary School)
Our first two-storey building that makes the best use of limited land availability
Birr Adama pre-primary & Primary School
Our most rural school, located in a mountainous region in the West Gojjam Zone
Gimjabet High School
A high school opened in 2018, built to ease the pressure of increasing student enrollment in the region
Addis Amba pre-primary & Primary School
A three-storey pre-primary & primary school on the outskirts of Bahir Dar, being built to accommodate a growing student population in a relatively small space
merawi pre-primary & Primary School
A 2019 project built in partnership with the Merawi community and Bahir Dar University
debre work pre-primary & Primary School
Our first project in the East Gojjam region, the community has provided Partners with funding to hire a junior education expert dedicated to the region for three years.
bezawit pre-primary &Primary School
A 2019 school built to replace the existing broken down mud facility which was without water, latrines or a playground
FIRIN pre-primary & primary SCHOOL
The replacement school is be a great addition to the area where most families are low income.
tis abay pre-primary & primary school
Serving a number of farming villages in the rural Kebele 30 km Southeast of Bahir Dar, construction began in December 2019 and the school opened in 2021. .
jigna pre-primary & primary school
Jigna Primary School opened in 2022. The non-construction aspects of the project have been provided in collaboration with Debre Tabor University and ISEE-urk.
debre work ayer tena high school
Construction on the new Debre Work High School began in 2021. It opened in 2022.
Gezahara high school
Partners was invited by the Gezehara and five other nearby communities to help them address the long standing and long overdue request for access to high school education.
motta pre-primary &primary school
Motta Primary School, which was fully funded by a US Foundation, opened in 2022.
ayer menged pre-primary & primary school
Construction on the new Pre-Primary & Primary School in Hadassie began in 2021. It opened in 2022.
