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About us
Who we are
You may be familiar with ActionAid, World Vision or Plan International. They all do a great job. However, EEF take child sponsorship to a completely different level.
Our goal is to help transform Ethiopia’s future by providing excellent education scholarships for severely under privileged yet motivated, academically promising students, empowering them with the skills that will enable them to transform Ethiopia’s future.
Each year we grant around 12 secondary school scholarships (boys & girls) to talented yet severely underprivileged children selected from a pool of government “feeder schools” as well as local charity organisations and across all racial and religious communities.
For all our selected students the scholarships include four years of fully paid tuition, for the period of grade 9-12, at one of Ethiopia’s leading private schools including uniforms, school materials and full boarding at one of our student houses. The facilities of these houses such as computer room with internet access, library and recreational as well educational facilities, 1-2-1 mentoring and group seminars can be used and attended by all eef scholars.
Our track record: After being in operation for just over 15 years we now have 235 students on the programme out of which the first 185 graduated from high school between 2009 and 2019. All 185 graduates are now either studying at university (29 of them in the medical field and six of our students are studying political science, physics and economics at New York University in Abu Dhabi on a full four year scholarship) or they have already graduated from university (50+ engineers and 19 medical doctors) All of them have found excellent employment.
We are making a remarkable difference to a growing number of academically talented youngsters who would otherwise not have had any chance of even secondary education.
