The Hanna Mariam Kindergarten and Elementary School is located in the town of Adwa, Kebele Hayelom. Adwa (also spelled Adowa, Aduwa, or Adua) is a market town in northern Ethiopia, and best known as the community closest to the decisive Battle of Adowa fought in 1896 with Italian troops. Notably, Ethiopian soldiers won the battle, thus being the only African nation to thwart European colonialism aside from Liberia. Located around 1000 k.m. from Addis Abeba (the capital city of Ethiopia).

Adwa’s population is than 44500. The city is a semi-desert and surrounded by chain-mountains.

 

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The parents of the children pay a nominal fee per month to cover partial costs for providing the pupils with uniforms and the necessary school utensils. The school takes care of the rest of the expenses. The fee will be reassessed from time to time, in keeping with the standard of the poor people of the area.

It was partially finished when the first group of 100 children (age 4) started their learning pre-school trajectory in September 2004. With this project, Mrs. Tarreke and late Sr. Florinda Benoni was answering to the request of the parents as well as the authority of Adwa. In January 2005, the kindergarten was inaugurated by the Mayor of Adwa, representative of the Educational office, as well as some representatives from Catholic religious congregations.

The construction of the Hanna Mariam Kindergarten School was started in December 2001 by Mrs. Mebrat Tarreke & late Sr. Florinda Benoni with the help of family, friends and private donors. The school was named after an Italian late Sister Florinda (Anna Maria/ or Hanna Mariam in Amharic/Tigrigna), who had been a member of the Comboni Missionary Sisters that have served the children in need for 40 years, both in Ethiopia and Eritrea.