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the Lalibela project works to ensure that everyone in Lalibela can graduate high school. Education is the main avenue to eliminate poverty in the long term. There are many barriers to getting an education for students and we try to address each one as we encounter it. We provide the meal service mentioned above (it is hard to study on an empty stomach!); we buy uniforms for children who don't have the resources; we came across a group of students who would not go to school because they were getting bullied because they had no shoes (so we bought them shoes!); the project set up a large study group for students who walked 2 hours or more to and from school and could not study after dark (no electricity in many villages) and recruited 3 retired teachers to add value to their study time after donating a generator to a local school to provide a study space after dark; after finding out that 63% of men in prison are illiterate we hired 4 teachers to give basic classes and set up a library..

Also known as: Lalibela Fund

Primary location: New York United States