Projects and Results
“The Palm Tree Seed and The Bright Light Project”
Duration: 2022-2024
Location: Sedika, Ethiopia
Ultimate Result
To build the first Kindergarten in Sedika, a Community Centre and a Guest House.
Projects beneficiaries
This project benefits children, their families, and the community.
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What we need Funds for.
Phase 1- Kindergarten
The Fanos Light has been working within the Sedika community for the last 5 years. During these times we have built a strong and meaningful relationships with Sedika community members, school administrators, teachers, and teacher parent committees. Throughout these years we heard from the teachers, the school admins, and the parents’ committees about the lack of access to per-school in Sedika.
We were informed about the challenges and the difficulties these teachers and the school admins faced to teach these children who come to school at later grades. We have learned that most of these children come to start grade one without proper preparation. We learned these children often have difficulties acquiring the required skills in literacy, mathematics, and other areas because they did not have any pre-school experience. As a result of this, teachers find teaching these children difficult. We know that formative years or the early years are very vital in the overall growth and development of children as they provide foundational skills needed to develop motor, communication, language, social, emotional, and other skills before children are actually exposed to literacy.
Listening to all these stories and seeing the challenges of these teachers, The Fanos Light decided to take the challenge of supporting the community to build the very first kindergarten, which we believe will provide so many children a good start in their academic and life pursuits.
Phase 2- Community Centre
The second phase of this project is to build a community center that will provide services to the entire Sedika community, particularly to girls and women. The community center will have various classrooms, auditorium, hall, workshops, and other facilities that will enhance community development. This center will have a place where community members could come to receive training and workshops that will enhance skills, and productivity and livelihood opportunities.
Phase 3- Guest House
The third phase is the building of a guest house that will provide services to the Sedika community and to people who comes to Sedika. The guest house will also provide space for volunteers or others who wish the program in Sedika.
There is an opportunity to create an income generating activity from this guesthouse as well. This phase will be designed once phase 1 and 2 are completed.
