Tis Abay Pre-Primary & Primary School
Located 30 kilometres southeast of Bahir Dar, Tis Abay Pre-Primary & Primary School (TAPS) serves several farming villages and currently supports over 800 students, nearly half of whom are girls. Before reconstruction, classrooms were dark, overcrowded, and unsafe, with crumbling mud walls, no latrines, water supply, or library, and limited furniture — often seating three to four students per small desk. Teachers had received no formal in-service training.
Since opening in 2021, the new school has transformed learning conditions with modern, well-ventilated classrooms, proper sanitation, and new teaching resources. All programs under our holistic model are now active, and teachers have enthusiastically adopted experiential, student-centred learning methods.
