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The US Based Shashamane Foundation faces the challenge and have assumed the responsibility of subsidizing and underwriting the budget for the school. This is a formidable ongoing challenge for our grassroots fundraising efforts through our community of friends, family and well wishers.
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Welcome to Shashamane!

Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements. - Haile Selassie
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The general mission of foundation is to To support the Educational Project of the Jamaican Rastafarian Development Community Organization (JRDC) a local Non-Governmental community organization in Ethiopia, wherein we serve as the primary financial sponsor of their ongoing educational project, the JRDC Kindergarten & Elementary School in Shashamane. This has been made made possible by the ongoing financial and material support of hundreds of private goodwill donors and contributors worldwide.
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contribute to education

Your small help can make a difference

The US Based Shashamane Foundation faces the challenge and have assumed the responsibility of subsidizing and underwriting the budget for the school. This is a formidable ongoing challenge for our grassroots fundraising efforts through our community of friends, family and well wishers.
Donate fund Read More

Welcome to Shashamane!

Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements. - Haile Selassie
Donate fund Read More

Be the Difference

together we can change lives

The general mission of foundation is to To support the Educational Project of the Jamaican Rastafarian Development Community Organization (JRDC) a local Non-Governmental community organization in Ethiopia, wherein we serve as the primary financial sponsor of their ongoing educational project, the JRDC Kindergarten & Elementary School in Shashamane. This has been made made possible by the ongoing financial and material support of hundreds of private goodwill donors and contributors worldwide.
Donate fund Read More

contribute to education

Your small help can make a difference

The US Based Shashamane Foundation faces the challenge and have assumed the responsibility of subsidizing and underwriting the budget for the school. This is a formidable ongoing challenge for our grassroots fundraising efforts through our community of friends, family and well wishers.
Donate fund Read More

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Africans Helping Africa

With the formal inauguration of the JRDC in 2002, the school was adopted and brought into its portfolio, as the first phase of its government-approved NGO education project. The U.S.A based Shashamane Foundation was listed and authorized as its primary overseas financial sponsor registered with the Ethiopian authorities. We have current student population of roughly 400, a staff of 29 and annual operating budget of roughly U.S. $45,000, the school receive no government funding whatsoever and the JRDC relies totally on an established parent cost-sharing arrangement; our is to become self-sustainable.
  • School Inauguration in 2002
  • Full-Day learning program
  • Regional school excellence
  • 8 Classroom Facility plus new Kindergarten & Playground

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"It is the duty of the educated few to fulfill the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many." - H.I.M Haile Sellasie

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