- German Church School
The German Church School (GCS) is a social project of the
Protestant German Speaking Congregation in theEthiopia ncapital ofAddis Ababa . Their origins go back to the year1966 .The school is the first, and up to now only, integrative educational program in Ethiopia, in which blind and seeing children are taught jointly.
A few
relief organizations support the project. In the main the school is carried financially through the Protestant German SpeakingCongregation in Ethiopia and private donors inEurope and theUSA .The instruction at the school is reserved exclusively for Ethiopian children of the poorest families from that the slum areas in the vicinity of the Church grounds. The staff of the school are completely Ethiopian men and women.
In the year 2004, the school was visited by the German Federal Chancellor
Gerhard Schröder andEva Köhler , the wife of the German PresidentHorst Köhler , who praised the German Church School and the decades of work of the Protestant German Speaking Congregation in Ethiopia, which has membership in theEvangelical Church in Germany (EKD).The financing of the work of the school is covered through personal
sponsorships (donations for support of specific children) and private fosterships (donations for specific projects) as well as various undesignated donations and subsidies from relief organizations.External links
* [http://www.germanchurchschool.de/ German Church School] (german-english website)
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