ADDIS ABABA (WAM) – The Al Maktoum Foundation has officially opened two schools in Addis Ababa, which will offer students from poor and middle-class families the opportunity to an education.
The schools opened under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Minister of Finance, in the presence of a delegation headed by Mirza Al Sayegh, member of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees.
The Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid School in the Ayat district of the capital Addis Ababa has a 405-student capacity and spans grades five to nine. It includes a computer lab that accommodates 40 students as well as a chemistry lab.
Meanwhile, the Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum School in Nifas Silk district boasts 12 classrooms and accommodates 513 students also in grades five to nine.
The school’s principal, Jerma Nagors expressed his appreciation for the opening of the school which, he said, will offer many local children the opportunity to learn.
About the Al Maktoum Foundation
Based in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Al Maktoum Foundation is a non-governmental, nonprofit organization founded to support charitable and humanitarian work across the world. The Foundation began its career and charitable journey in the fields of humanitarian work in 1997 in Dublin, Ireland, through the Islamic Cultural Center in the city, and extended its presence to more than 69 countries in all continents of the world.
In 1997, the Foundation started its educational program in Africa to build ten high schools with full equipment in a number of African countries, a program that is still continuing as the number of these schools and colleges has reached nearly forty in more than twenty African countries. The educational program of the Foundation has helped thousands of African students to enter colleges and higher educational streams.
Source: UAE News Agency (WAM)