| Project: | Classroom Furniture (2009) |
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| School: | Lemat Behibret Elementary School |
| Locality: | Asella |
| Category: | Classrooms |
| Status: | Implementation |
Total raised so far:
£600
(US $885.85 or €600)
Special thanks to:
- » Cradle Hill (£600)
£600
(US $885.85 and €600)
How will this be spent?
20th October 2010
Cradle Hill have raised an amazing £600 towards furniture at Lemat Behibret School. Congratulations!
New pupils22nd September 2010
1,500 new pupils have recently been registered to join Lemat Behibret School. But there are only 600 desk spaces for them.
Please help us raise the money needed to buy desk units for one of their classrooms.
GPS location3rd April 2010
In case you would like to know where Lemat Behibret is, it's GPS location is: 07°57.086′N, 39°07.498′E.
Sadly Google's satellite photography of the school was taken on a cloudy day! But you can nevertheless see these wonderful clouds here: http://bit.ly/lematbehibret
New photos added15th February 2010
More photos of daily life around the school have been uploaded. Enjoy!
Read older news...17th December 2009
Photos of life in and around Lemat Behibret have been uploaded. They include photos showing classrooms with adequate furniture as well as classrooms without adequate furniture.
Project proposal11th August 2009
The Lemat Behibret Elementary School has a reasonable number of classrooms on its site to cope with the number of pupils who attend. But what they do not have is sufficient classroom furniture to use inside these classrooms.
In at least five classrooms the children sit on wooden benches with no desk in front of them. This makes writing very difficult. Pupils sit uncomfortably and write on their laps, or they kneel behind their bench and use it as a makeshift table.
Providing adequate furniture is a real priority for the school.
The challenge is to raise £600 to buy new desks for one of these classrooms. Desk units are not cheap to construct, but they are made locally and are very strong and long-lasting. Please help!
Classrooms and desks are the building blocks of schools. But in Ethiopia many schools lack the number of classrooms they need, many existing classrooms are in need of repair or rebuilding, and many pupils learn with inadequate or non-existent furniture.
In the most rural of schools classrooms are little more than temporary shelters constructed from branches and leaves. These shelters are open to the elements, easily damaged by livestock and, when it rains, no school is possible, which impacts negatively on the ability of children to learn.
Building solid, long-lasting, clean classrooms transforms a school and the education of their children. Providing adequate desks enables pupils to concentrate better, lets them write comfortably, and reduces problems with posture and backache.
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Pupils | 1575 |
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Gender split | 43% male, 57% female |
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Teachers | 60 |
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Classrooms | 19 |
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Grades taught | Grades 1 - 8 |
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Class size | 46 (on average) |
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Shift system? | Yes |
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Library? | Yes |
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Drinking water? | Yes 2 taps |
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Toilets? | 0 male, 3 female |
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Electricity? | Yes |
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Computers? | No |
