Tsegereda serves thirty kindergarteners and thirty children in grades one to four. These latter are graduates from our kindergarten program. As our flagship school, we hope to make a model program out of Tsegereda. Many visitors from Europe and the United States have mentored our teachers, adding their distinct talents and ideas to our classroom experience.Bright Life School, Mojo
The second Tesfa school opened in October 2006 in Mojo, a small town 100 kilometres south of Addis Ababa. Nine staff serve 120 kindergarteners from disadvantaged families. This is Tesfa’s first foray into non-formal primary education for rural populations. This school will serve 200 farmers' children from the area around the village of Gobame, outside Bahir Dar in the north of Ethiopia, with a condensed primary education delivered on a schedule amenable to the daily and annual schedules of farming families.
On registration day, 500 families showed up to apply. The need is real! This school is now administered by an Ethiopian NGO called Bright Life for Children.
Tsegereda, Debre Zeit and Tsereha Tsion School, Mojo
Both founded in autumn 2007, these schools are twinned in an experiment in sustainability and diversification of services. Can schools simultaneously boost the standards of early childhood education among families that can afford the low-level tuitions while also helping to fund schools for families that can afford none? It can be done: these schools are a success.
