Jigna Primary School

Jigna Primary School (JPS) is located some 45 kms to the North of Bahir Dar, capital  of ANRS. According to data obtained from the local administration, the district/Woreda has a population of about 300,973 (151,511 females) who, in the main, rely on rain fed subsistence agriculture.  The existing school conditions were extremely poor, with the combine desks being so few that most students had to sit on the floor on logs or rocks.  The school had no library or science lab.

One parent who is also a member of the school’s construction committee, shared Partners’ staff a story with a heavy heart.

I came to the school to register my little daughter. Having finished the registration, I took her to her classroom to introduce her to the homeroom teacher and her class mates. Unfortunately, when I got into the room I found children fighting over a log to sit on. I was shocked; there were only two or three desks in the classroom. Imagine your daughter on her first day of schooling without even a stool to sit on. I decided to buy a stools for that classroom. From that day on, I began to mobilize the community for the reconstruction of the school.

The new school will have 12 classrooms in three blocks, a library, a science laboratory, a computer lab, latrine and a teacher resource center/staff room and administration block with office spaces. With the existing one block building, the new facilities will allow JPS to provide children in Jigna Kebele and from the surrounding communities’ access to grade 1-8 and provide over 2000 students (50 students/classroom in two shifts) close to home.  When the block being built by Amhara Development Association is completed, the school’s enrollment capacity in two shifts will grow to 2,400. 

The Debre Tabor University is collaborating with Partners and has agreed to provide learning resources (books, kindergarten materials for the new library and reading corners, science kits, chemicals and reagents, sport materials and equipment, lego, games, and carpet for preschoolers) and school greening and gardening implements for the new school.

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