Imagine you begin your elementary school education in a small classroom with dirt floors and no desks. Parents from the village do their best to teach reading and writing, but only up to 3rd grade. Eventually a government-sponsored school for grades 1 – 8 with classrooms, desks, curricula, and teachers is built near your village. The pathway to high school is now possible where previously no such opportunity existed.

This past fall, Project Ethiopia undertook a search to hire our first-ever Executive Director as founders, Dennis Wilkins and Judy Sanderman, prepared to step back after more than 11 years building and leading the organization. We are pleased to introduce and welcome our new Executive Director, Sue Wilkes, who started this past January!