Project status: Completed
In this region, 99% of the children were unable to go to secondary school as the nearest one was 3 hours walk away.
The Costa Foundation has built and furnished a brand new high school with eight classrooms for 480 children, new accommodation for teachers and a library complete with reference books.
The school provides facilities for four feeder schools in twelve parishes within the region and benefits a total population of over 100,000. As a result of the Costa's investment, electricity was provided locally for the first time in this community.
The investment has enabled Phillips to donate 8 flat screen TV's to the school to enable "remote education" allowing teacher's who live too far away to travel to the school, to give "one-way" lessons by DVD.
Some of the images on the right show the first group of High School children attending class in May 2008. Below is a video showing progress made through 2008.
"True change to our farmer's lives can only be through education"
Mr Tadesse Meskela, the Oromia Coffee Farmers Co-operative Union
Click on the video below to see a video diary of the progress in Kilenso Rasa.
