“My daughter wouldn’t have been able to attend school. We couldn't afford to buy her school supplies. Having been living in a conflict setting, the opportunity has done more for my daughter than give her access to an education. It's also enabled her to cope with the trauma she's experienced from being displaced. Before she
“The students of government school have quitted their education two weeks earlier than the regular school closing time. They didn’t start class for the last three weeks because of the drought in the community. However we have been attending class without interruption for imagine1day is providing us water every other day,” says Abdi Mesela, 14
Wesley is a senior school student at Vancouver College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is volunteering as a social media intern with Imagine1day and got inspired by what he saw to fundraise for a school improvement project in Anole.Wesley lived in Africa for two months with his family and saw the need for school infrastructure
Imagine1day has identified a critical need to upgrade the school facilities in Anole, in the Oromia Region in southeastern Ethiopia. We are fundraising for a project to build 8 new classrooms, 2 blocks of gender-segregated latrines, a new library and a new playground will cost over $270,000. 53% of the funds have already been secured
The Educate A Girl project provides opportunities for girls who have completed grade 8 to continue their studies at high schools in nearby urban centers. The program fully funds the... (read more)Education, transformational leadership training, WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) and child protection are our current pillars of intervention. We have impacted over… (read more)Help
Imagine1day has continued its humanitarian response to people affected by the current crisis in Tigray Region.In partnership with UNICEF, we have launched an education and child protection project for Internally Displaced People in the Mekelle and Shire towns of Tigray region. This project will impact over 7,600 children with Education in Emergency program and over
“I had lost all hope that my life could be any better, but then imagine1day’s education opportunity enabled me to dream of a bright future,” says Kaliti Galgalo, who was able to access at-home education via radio after a more than a two-year absence from school.Kaliti was just 10 years old when she was displaced
Nedi, Godana’s mother “After what my son experienced, it is a privilege that he is able to access education. Given his individualist nature of dealing with his problems on his own, I was worried about his fate with no education,” says Nedi, Godana’s mother.Godana Wariyo, 13 years old, had suffered the trauma of displacement
In Buluk community, like many remote villages in Ethiopia, girls spend a lot of their day on the endless task of fetching water. Sometimes they travel as much as four hours back and forth, with only river water available. And even then they must share with their cattle. “The river water we use for drinking
imagine1day Project Update February 2021 Over the last three years, imagine1day has partnered with the Costa Foundation to carry on the critical work of granting access to education for out-of-school children across Ethiopia. Since 2017, they have constructed a total of nine schools together.Here is our project update on the three latest critical school openings. In the Oromia
