100% of donations benefit Ehtiopian children and their families
Project Ethiopia has 501(c)(3) status
Judy & Dennis pay for all administrative and travel costs.
We buy local & hire local to benefit local economy
What does it take to improve the life of a child?
For as little as 7 pennies, you can help!
- $4.70 for a school uniform
- $1.63 for school supplies for a year
- $0.07 for a bar of soap
- $1 for a reading book
- $35 for a triple desk
- $10 for a bench
- $2,300 for school well
- $365 for piped water for a school well
- $0.40 for drinking bottle
- $12,000 for school latrine
- $15 for soccer ball
- $1 for jump rope
- $17.50 for a white cane
- $4.50 for a ream of Braille paper
- $35 for a beehive
- $2 for a sickle for the women or child to weed and harvest
- $78 for a family latrine
- $400 for a concrete floor
- $2,100 for a village well
Other School News:
- Microscope supplies for the high school
- Telephone connection for one school
- School library books
- 25 white canes were given to blind children
New School Building almost at completion
Structural cracks in walls of old school building.
When spiders unite they can tie up a lion
- Ethiopian proverb
Rebuild an unsafe school:
- a new classroom building will keep grades 1 - 4 safe
- a building for grades 5 - 8 will follow
U.S. structural engineers declared the West Berayta Elementary School unsafe and unrepairable due to the severe cracking of the block cement walls. Cracks in the walls were from the swelling and contraction of the soil in the rainy and dry seasons.
Project Ethiopia discovered from a German engineering firm that had experience with exactly the same type of soil and conditions that building on such soil was possible...See more -
Give Access to Education
1,313 children received a uniform, exercise books, pen, bar of soap, story book to keep*, and for this year; a second set of clothes...See more -
Study Hard & Play Hard!
321 Jump Ropes for Girls
22 Soccer Ball for Boys
Help Blind Students
Each white cane = independence for 2 people!
The person who has guided the blind person can now be free to go to school themselves.
Reams of braille paper are also provided, as well as plastic grids and stylus/pins for the students to take notes during class. They take notes by pushing through the heavy paper to make holes. They poke holes from right to left in the paper. Then they turn the paper over to read from the rough side from left to right.
Desperately Needed - money to buy library books!
This is the entire library for 1,200 students -
Will You Help Us? Click here to see how
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world" -
Nelson Mandela
