One Day, One school in Ethiopia – Auxilium Catholic School

Primary school pupils were now many and grew quickly. Although students loved playing football together, the pitch was too small for everyone. In 2015 a larger soccer field has been built for the children where they can play during breaks, during the sports lessons and in the summer school in the organized tournaments. Moreover, at the end of the lessons a mister trains girls and boys who want to learn to play football.

New Flower in Africa from the beginning has supported this project with the idea of overcoming disparities funding the spread of knowledge, information and best practices alongside a formal education for all the children and young people of the Bole Bulbula district. In particular, this collaboration with the work of the Salesian Sisters represents the desire to empower women and young people living in poverty to have access to alphabetisation, formal education, higher grades of secondary schools and therefore universities.

In 2016, the number of children attending the kindergarten is around 200, divided into two classes of 50 students per each of 2 years of kindergarten. Elementary school students are about 600. In total the children attending the school are 800. Current teachers of elementary school are 23. The indirect beneficiaries of the project are about 3.000.

In the future, when the pupils continuing their studies will reach the grade 8 conclusive of the primary school the number of primary students will be around 800. To them it will be added the 200 children of the kindergarten and the 400 high school students.

Bole Bulbula district, where the New Flower in Africa project is located, is a peripheral area in great expansion. In few years the villages, meadows, small crops and pastures for goats were dumped from huge modern buildings and several shops. Although in this area is still predominantly inhabited by poor families living in small huts, is gradually rising a rich community involved in a process of urbanization.