Education young children in Benishanul Gumuz region, Ethiopia

The project
In the Benishangul
Gumuz Region in the west of Ethiopia the educational performance of children in primary schools are the lowest in Ethiopia. This is mainly because the children are taught in Amharic and not in their own mother tongue. This causes a very high school drop-out. The Ethiopian government has officially designated this region as ‘neglected region’.

Purpose and activities

Wycliffe and its local partner SIL set up an educational program in the local mother tongue for 20 schools in three different language groups. They will realize this in a three-year project together with the Regional Education Office of the Benishangul Gumuz State.  The goal of the project is to improve access to and quality of primary education for 15,000 children, through the introduction of mother tongue education (developing teaching materials and train teachers).

Contribution Huisman Foundation

The Huisman Foundation is one of the donors of this three-year project (€ 181,064). In 2013 we financed the first part, and in 2015 we will do an additional donation.

Click on the following link to find more information about our education project in the Benishangul Gumuz State in Ethiopia. Project document on education in Benishangul Gumuz.