Laelay Weste Grade 1-4 Primary School

Children’s horizons expand under a low roof in a school of twigs and stones. With a four classroom school their possibilities will soar.
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A Story from Laelay Weste

For as many years as he can remember teaching, Principal Ato Abraham’s students have packed into open-air classes, and learned in a school built roughly of rocks, branches and straw. Year after year, he has done his best to inspire their learning despite the poor learning environment where children are crowded uncomfortably together on stone seats and dirt floors.

Ato Abraham and his students will remember 2010 as the year everything changed. They will remember it as the year their village cleared their mountain road, one boulder at a time, so that school construction could begin. They will remember it as they year their village mobilized to help build a school with four spacious classrooms, proper desks, blackboards, and learning materials. They will remember 2010 as the year their entire village renewed their hope in their children’s education and in their community’s future.

Goals

  • Build a four-room concrete and stone school for 400 students to replace Weste’s open air school.
  • Provide furniture, textbooks, learning materials and sports equipment.
  • Support teachers with training and materials.
  • Mobilize and train a Parent Teacher Association (PTA) to lead and steward the future of the school.
  • Build girls’ and boys’ latrines.
  • Plant trees and a garden and provide environmental training programs to generate income for the school’s future.
  • Build a roof water catchment system to irrigate school crops.