Our Focus
Today, our singular focus is to raise enough funds and electrify the school. Once we achieve that milestone, we will be collecting used, refurbished laptops and desk top computers that are loaded with free educational software and ship them to the school.
We believe that having access to the internet and online learning resources will help the students close the gap that exists right now.
Support Zorat
Thanks to our supporters, Zorat Elementary School is one step closer to getting electrified. We have now 135 donation of $66.67 on a goal of 300. We are 45% to our goal We have raised $9000 as of May 13, 2011. We feel blessed to have your support and we know you will take us all the way to $20,000.
18c per day can change 2000 Students in Ethiopia!
About Zorat
Zorat is an elementary school in Northern Ethiopia, near the historic town of Axum. Zorat full elementary school, as it is known, has approximately 2000 students from grades one to eight. The picture you see here is one of the buildings used as classrooms.
What does Zorat need?
Imagine a child sitting on a rock, doing school work on their lap.We would like to prevent students from going back to sitting on rocks. There is an ongoing need to have enough chairs and desks so that no student will ever sit on a rock. Beyond that, the school has no running water or electricity.
Zorat Library
The school has a one room structure that has been designated as a library. They have less than a few hundred books and most of them were donated from different sources.
Zorat Students
Recently, we sent a friend of Zorat to the school and complete a quick survey of what they would like to have that would help them with their learning.
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Recently, a family donated $365.00 to Zorat.org. This is the third time this family has done it. We are so grateful for their continued support. Thank you very much. When ever we visit them around Halloween, they gave us their donation on a brown bag. They save $1/day for the year just for zorat. $1/day seems very small and easy to do but it goes a long way for our cause.
We hope there will be more people who can do the same as this family.
In three years, we have done several projects for the school. We have achieved our goal of having all students a chair and a desk, we have provided funding for uniforms for kids that are Orphaned and we have bought 570 books! Now the Tigrai government has promised us that they will electrify the school.
Our effort will now focus on finding computers loaded with free educational software that can be used by the students. We are looking at logisitics of how many and when we will begin to collect computers. We look forward to your continued support.
18¢ per day can change 2000 Students in Ethiopia!
18/01/2012
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Contact us
117 Sunset Dr.
Fredericton, NB E3A 1A2
Canada
Tel: 506-452-6789
Fax: 506-452-6787
Web: www.zorat.org
Email: school@zorat.org
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Current happenings
News update:
We have been waiting for the regional government where the school is located to deliver a promise they had made last year to us. We met with the president of the state of Tigrai on Good Friday last year and he had let us know that the government would take the initiative to electrify the school. In turn, the government thought that Zorat.org should concentrate on finding computers for the school. To that end, we have been working with UNB in Fredericton to collect used computers to eventually send them to the school. However, we are still waiting for the government to electrify the school. We hope it will be done soon.