ADDIS ABABA – Al Maktom foundation has opened two schools in Addis Ababa that will offer students from poor and middle-class families educational opportunities.
The schools opened under the patronage of Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Minister of Finance, in the presence of a delegation of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees by the start of this week, according to gulfnews.
The Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid School in the Ayat district has a 405-student capacity and spans grades five to nine. It includes a computer lab that accommodates 40 students as well as a chemistry lab. Meanwhile, the Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum School in Nifas Silk boasts 12 classrooms and accommodates 513 students also in grades five to nine.
The school’s principal, Jerma Nagors expressed his appreciation for the opening of the school, which, he said, will offer many local children the opportunity to learn. The Foundation’s members of Board of Trustees have also held discussions with Takele Uma, Mayor Office of Addis Ababa.
The Office then announced that the Foundation has reached agreement with the Office and City Administration’s Education Bureau to work jointly in improving education quality, particularly in secondary schools and technical and vocational education. Mayor Takele on his part said that his administration has more than ever been striving to ensure education quality and the partnership would support its cause.
The Ethiopian Herald, January 10/2019
BY ESSEYE MENGISTE
