School Support for 130 orphan children-Addis Ababa

                                                                                                                                  22/01/2024

This is the project report of YengatBirhan Charity Organization on school support for 130 orphan children from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Report period from September – December, 2023 

Introduction

Yengat Birhan Charity organization is a local non-governmental and non-profit organization that works on children education, women empowerment and health since 2016.

On this reporting period, we performed different activities under the school support project for the 130 (65 female and 65 male) school children. We provided tutorial class three days a week, including ethics class every other week alternatively with English free speaking. We provided it with snack since students took tutorial class after school.  

In general, we provide the following support for all 130 school children in this reporting period:

• Tutorial class, it was given by our organization totally by hiring par time teacher from privet school.
• The tutorial classes focused on English, Mathematics, Physics/Chemistry and Ethics and we are now working in collaboration with Tesfa Birhan governmental Secondary school. 

The new tutorial classes that planned to start on February will be focused on English, Mathematics, Physics/Chemistry and Ethics and we are still planned to works with the collaboration of Tesfa Birhan governmental Secondary school and have the flowing points:

• The Tutorial class planned to be on every Tuesday and Thursday and the other services to be on every Saturday.
• Both services of Tutorial class will provide at Tesfa Birhan School but Grade KG to grade 2 at YB class room, including summer program.
• Regarding teachers, as much as possible we have a plan to get a degree holder for all subject in spite of the student grade level in order to use them for all grade as our time table.
• We keep English, Mathematics and Ethics teachers including July and August by the thinking of summer program, we have a plan to come all children for two half days by dividing all students in two groups.
• The previous English, Mathematics, Physics and Ethics teachers will continue with the new tutorial arrangement to cover on Tuesday and Thursday as usual but Physics teacher will cover both Saturday for grade 9 and 10 to teach Physics and on the working days General Science for grade 7 and 8.

Here is the class room arrangement and number of students in each class together with all 85, the additional 41

and 21 non sponsored students from the other group:

- KG to grade 2 = total 10 students

- Grade 3 = total 18 students

- Grade 4 = total 11 Students

- Grade 5 = total 13 Students

- Grade 6 = total 21 Students

- Grade 7 = total 13 students

- Grad 8 = total 32 Students

- Grade 9 = total 16 Students

- Grade 10 = total 12 Students

Total all together students, 146. One student grade 11 preferred to study at home with the supportive materials.

Grade: 4, 5, 9 and 10, Tutorial classes will be provided on every Saturday starting from the Month of January year 2024 (From

3:00 – 6:30 Local Time, (9:00am to 12:30pm), including snack time) and

Grade: KG to grade 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8,

Tutorial Class will be provided on every Tuesday and Thursday from the Month of

January year 2024 (From 9:30 – 11:30 Local Time, (3:30pm to 5:30pm) including snack time). Please refer the time table.  

On this quarter the Ethics Class topics were:

• “Successful Live Choice- Select Your Friend Wisely”
•  The sub-topics that were raised were about vision, bravery, eliminating laziness and choose your friend wisely. Students have stated their vision and were engaged in the interactive class. 

The students regularly doing sport training every Saturday in the afternoon at Biruh Tesfa school but girl students not able to play because we didn’t provide sport wear for girls’ students because of budget constraints.

Regarding health-related support, we could covered health insurance fee for 130 students’ family birr 1000/childe family and that helps to get medical help of all the family members and we able to provide hygiene items like soap 250 mg 3 piece, hair oil 125 ml for children and sanitary pad for 41 girls as the quarterly plan.

We also could provide parenting training for children family and the staff also attended a training name project management in this quarter.

 We keep also purchased different food items like milk powder, peanut butter, fruit Jam for 4 different students, who needs additional support and we keep buying some food items weekly and paying electricity bills regularly for two students. 

Thank you for your contribution to bring change in the life of the school children! 

God Bless you!

Keep sharing Yengat Birhan for others so that we can involve in other school children to change their lives.    

Thank you again!

Meseret Tesfaye, Director

Yengat Birhan Charity Organizatio