Birr Adama Primary School
Birr Adama Primary School is a joint project of Partners in Education, the Bahir Dar University and a local community in the Quarit Woreda of West Gojjam Zone. The school had falling classrooms, no library and no science lab. Teachers did not have any in-service training and were predominantly using the lecture and rote learning method. Partners in Education replaced existing buildings with 16 new cement block, well ventilated classrooms; new desks; a library with reference, fiction and self-help books; a laboratory with science kits; and, an admin block with a teacher resource centre, offices, and an IT room. The new classrooms have reduced the class size from an average of 61 in each shift to 50.
Progress
Teacher training is going well. A well has been dug to provide water both for drinking and irrigation, and planting of multi-purpose trees and establishment of educational vegetable and fruit gardens are underway.
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