Student at Worku Jember High School. Thanks to our supporters, the boarding students do not have to travel to fetch water. Now it comes to their dorm steps.
Gebru – age 20
Gebru is a second-year student. He is the son of farmers and is from a village 35 km away. Gebru walks to school early evenings on Sundays with his weekly meal of a single round loaf of bread. He is renting a room close to the school. He goes home on Fridays to help his father on the farm and earn his rent money. He is learning masonry and IT.
Hadas – age 18
Hadas is a first-year student. She is studying IT. Hadas comes from a village 30 km away. She is the oldest of three siblings. Her father is a farmer. It takes her around three hours one way to walk to the school every week. Hadas brings her weekly meal from home. She hopes to finish school and work to help her family and serve her community. Hadas wants to stay in Ethiopia and does not want to migrate like most of her friends who are forced to go abroad to seek work to support their family.
Muluberhan – age 20
Muluberhan is a first-year student. He is from neighboring village. His father is an 80-year-old farmer. He is the youngest of seven children. Muluberhan is interested in IT. He is very frustrated that most of the donated computers at the school don’t even function. The electricity is not reliable, and the lack of materials makes going to school very discouraging. If he completes school successfully, he wants to be a teacher at the school. He does not want the future students to experience the struggles he is facing.