Education impact report - Winter 2025

An update on MCC education projects

A group photo of top scoring students and staff of the RPC Preschool in Adama Ethiopia in March 2024.

Ethiopia Bolivia — Feb 2025

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Education
February 14, 2025

A strong start in Ethiopia

You are creating new opportunities for vulnerable children to learn, grow and connect
Five-year-old Sudeyis Sherif, collects his award for standing 1st in his nursery school class from MCC staff Solomon along at the morning assembly cermony of RPC Preschool, Adama Ethiopia, March 2024.
Because of your support, hundreds of orphans and vulnerable children like Sudeyis Sherif now go to preschool. Five-year-old Sudeyis spends his days learning to count, read, create art, listen to music and play with his friends. He is thriving and was awarded top student in his nursery class (pictured here). (MCC photo/Nafkot Gebeyehu)

In Ethiopia, children from the poorest households are four times more likely to be out of school than those from the wealthiest families. With the generous support of donors like you, MCC partner, Remember the Poorest Community (RPC), has helped 276 children attend preschool over the past three years.

This support has been focused on orphans and vulnerable children who face significant financial and social barriers to accessing preschool education, providing them with the education materials they need to thrive in school. 

Here’s an overview of the difference you made in the lives of these children:

  • 275 children (137 boys and 139 girls) received
    education materials to improve literacy and
    numeracy.
     
  • 270 students passed successfully from first to
    second semester.
     
  • 62 students (35 boys and 27 girls) experienced
    improved food security and nutrition at home.
    Their caregivers participated in a loan program
    specifically geared toward enhancing their
    families’ income-generating activities.

A haven of safety and connection

In Bolivia, you’re providing a stable community for children at risk
Eymi Dayana Cruz Cuevas, age 14, attends Casa de Amistad in Bolivia.
You’ve championed a safe space for teenagers like Eymi Dayana Cruz Cuevas to come after school. Eymi enjoys seeing her friends, working in the kitchen to create tasty snacks and appreciates the extra help she gets on her school work. (MCC photo/Anna Yoder)

In the heart of Cochabamba, Bolivia, there is a safe haven for children facing significant challenges. Some have an incarcerated parent. Others have parents who work as street vendors and are out late into the evening trying to make a living.

For all 175 children at Casa de la Amistad & Jireh daycares, a welcoming place to go to after school helps keep them safe.

Because of your compassionate support, these two daycares, run by MCC partner, Baptist Organization of Social Development (OBADES), are thriving. Every day, staff provide thoughtful care and vital services to some of Cochabamba’s most vulnerable children and youth.

Here's how you championed these children this past year:

Five days a week, 128 children ate lunch and snacks and received after-school academic support.

114 children had access to a medical check up and 26 children received dental care.

Seven teenagers participated in vocational training.

128 children participated in a hygiene workshop where they learned how to brush their teeth and wash their faces and hands.

Partner spotlight: Baptist Organization of Social Development (OBADES)

OBADES has been an MCC in Bolivia partner since 2016 and is an affiliate of the Baptist Church. OBADES is dedicated to improving the quality of life for vulnerable children, adolescents, and their families. Many of the children and adolescents supported by the organziation are from families where parents are incarcerated. OBADES’s work aligns with MCC’s operational principles by addressing economic and social inequities while emphasizing non-violence.

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