Afedena school

Afedena School
Afedena School
Location
	Afedena; Addi Azmera municipality, Tigray; Ethiopia
Coordinates	13.6543°N 39.2953°E
Information
Type	Public School
School district	Dogu’a Tembien
Staff	3 teachers
Grades	1–3
Gender	Co-Educational
Number of students	111
Language	Tigrinya
Data pertaining to	2019[1]

Afedena School is a public school for grades 1 through 3 in Afedena, Addi Azmera, Dogu’a Tembien, Tigray, Ethiopia.[1]

Description

In 2019, the Afedena School comprised three open-air classes; there were 111 students, 50 girls and 61 boys.[1] There were:

33 students in one class in Grade 1
34 students in one class in Grade 2
44 students in one class in Grade 3

Challenges

School buildings

Schooling is conducted in the shade of trees (“ab igri ‘om”; literally ‘at the foot of the tree’).[2] The blackboard is kept in a nearby homestead and mounted every morning. The children sit on stones while following lessons. Such lack of classrooms is directly related to the large intake in primary schools in Ethiopia over the last decades.[3] In 2019, the EthioTrees project started building classrooms as compensation for the good protection of the village's exclosure, and carbon sequestration. The sequestered carbon[4] is certified using the Plan Vivo voluntary carbon standard,[5] after which carbon credits are sold. The revenues are reinvested in the village; in Afedena the community prioritised the building of classrooms for Afedena school.[6]

Water and sanitation

In 2019, the students used water from the village hand-dug well with handpump. There is no toilet building.[1]

Transportation

All children travel to school on foot. The smaller children may come late or miss school because of fear for hyenas on the way in the early morning.[7]

References

Jeroen Berloo, 2019. Update to baseline study about water and sanitation in eight selected schools by the project ‘School – Watsani’ in the Woreda Dogu’a Tembien. HOWest, Bruges, Belgium.
Mjaaland, T., 2013. At the frontiers of change? Women and girls’ pursuit of education in north-western Tigray, Ethiopia. The University of Bergen. http://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/6361
Hartjen, C.A. and Priyadarsini, S., 2012. Denial of Education. In The Global Victimization of Children (pp. 271-321). Springer, Boston, MA. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-2179-5_8 .
De Deyn, Jonathan (2019). Benefits of reforestation on Carbon storage and water infiltration in the context of climate mitigation in North Ethiopia. Master thesis, Ghent University.
EthioTrees on Plan Vivo website
Reubens, B. and colleagues (2019). Research-based development projects in Dogu’a Tembien. In: Geo-trekking in Ethiopia's Tropical Mountains - The Dogu'a Tembien District. SpringerNature. ISBN 978-3-030-04954-6.
Goele Treuttens and Linde Van Der Vurst, 2018. Baseline study about water and sanitation in ten selected schools by the project ‘School – Watsani’ and in the community around the schools in ten different villages in the Woreda Dogu’a Tembien. HOWest, Bruges, Belgium.

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[jeroen-1] Jeroen Berloo, 2019. Update to baseline study about water and sanitation in eight selected schools by the project ‘School – Watsani’ in the Woreda Dogu’a Tembien. HOWest, Bruges, Belgium.

[2] Mjaaland, T., 2013. At the frontiers of change? Women and girls’ pursuit of education in north-western Tigray, Ethiopia. The University of Bergen. http://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/6361

[3] Hartjen, C.A. and Priyadarsini, S., 2012. Denial of Education. In The Global Victimization of Children (pp. 271-321). Springer, Boston, MA. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-2179-5_8 .

[jona-4] De Deyn, Jonathan (2019). Benefits of reforestation on Carbon storage and water infiltration in the context of climate mitigation in North Ethiopia. Master thesis, Ghent University.

[vivo-5] EthioTrees on Plan Vivo website

[chapter-6] Reubens, B. and colleagues (2019). Research-based development projects in Dogu’a Tembien. In: Geo-trekking in Ethiopia's Tropical Mountains - The Dogu'a Tembien District. SpringerNature. ISBN 978-3-030-04954-6.

[goele-7] Goele Treuttens and Linde Van Der Vurst, 2018. Baseline study about water and sanitation in ten selected schools by the project ‘School – Watsani’ and in the community around the schools in ten different villages in the Woreda Dogu’a Tembien. HOWest, Bruges, Belgium.