QUICK FACTS

• Over three million children in Ethiopia do not go to school.
• $50,000 can build a four classroom school for 400 students.
• $21.33 can fund one bag of cement for the floor of a school.
• imagine1day currently works with 30 communities in Tigray, Ethiopia.
• 2,000 trees are planted in every community. $15.67 pays for 100 trees and ecology training.
• In order to fully fund our project commitments for the next three years we need 10,000 people to donate $40.
• It costs $85,000 to build a full community school project including a four classroom school, an eight stall latrine, a water point and everything that goes into the school to make it whole and complete.
• It is estimated that over 200,000 classrooms need to be built to provide access for the over 3 million children out of school and to reduce the classroom student/teacher ratios to acceptable levels.
• One imagine1day desk seats three children.
• All materials used in imagine1day projects are locally sourced.
• Ethiopia has an estimated population in excess of 70 million spread over an area of 1.1 million square kilometers.
• The total population of Ethiopia is estimated to reach 81.3 million by 2010, with 16.5 million children of primary school age.
• imagine1day is currently bringing quality education to over 10,000 children and their families in 30 communities in the northern state of Tigray in Ethiopia.