Last week a borehole was drilled at our Elementary School site in Adami Tulu. This year, construction of the first 4 classrooms will start. The new school is very near to the Sher Kindergarten that now has 350 students. Preparations have begun for the new Elementary School starting with the basics: water and electricity.

At 77 meters deep water was struck. Thanks to Christian Service International, who are helping us to improve the water availability at all our school-sites. Now we have abundant water to irrigate our trees and plants and flush the lavatories. Borehole water will also be made available, free of charge, via water taps to members of the local community.

Construction of the new Sher Elementary school will bring much needed development in terms of education, employment, and infrastructure.

Recently, three of our 8th grade students participated in a contest of innovation & creativity prepared by the Oromia Education Office. The competition was at regional level, presented as “Oromia female’s students Day.” It was hosted in Addis Ababa at the Oromia Cultural Center.

Helen Yosef, Mahilet Birhanu and Kenenitu Teshome won in the category of handicrafts. They received medals and a certificate. During the day when they were accompanied by teacher Robiti Mengasha, they were given a chance to present their works of art in front of an audience. To celebrate, they went to see the Friendship Park the next day.

Back at Sher School the girls were honored by School Management and their fellow students. Well done girls!

We are looking for a young and energetic, fluently English speaking Secretary/Admin Assistant to support the import processes and to manage the daily secretarial duties at the office in Addis Ababa.

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Sher Ethiopia is looking for an experienced School Director of all our Sher Schools and who is a strong  professional in managing and leading schools at KG, primary, elementary and high school level.

Our current Sher Schools Director will go on retirement and our new colleague will be based in Ziway town, at 2 hours drive from Addis. And will pay regular visits to our other Schools in Tulu, about 5 km from Ziway.

Tasks and Responsibilities

The School Director of the Sher schools is responsible for a proper functioning of all the Sher schools meaning a correct and effective management according to the internal guidelines and policies of the Company and as per set guidelines of the rules and regulation of both Oromia Education Bureau and Federal / Governmental  rules. The School Director ensures that the school and all the staff is working according to the above and coordinates the necessary actions to uphold the (internal) guidelines and policies. He /she is leading the School Management Team and leads by example. The School Principles of each school – KG, primary / elementary and high school, are reporting into this vacant position.

Some of the key tasks of the Sher Schools Director are:

• Ensures national and regional education standards and guidelines are well implemented at all levels in the schools
• Verifies standards and measurements of enrolments set are achieved and fulfilled
• Verifies and ensures proper documentation and records of students are compiled, documented and kept in a modern manner
• Manages, leads, monitors and controls the school principals’ effectiveness in leading the individual Sher schools
• Plans, organizes, manages and controls the Sher schools’ overall enrolment and teaching and learning activities
• Verifies and ensures – in coordination with School Principals and other management team members –  that classrooms, teaching-learning materials, equipment, infrastructure and technologies are sufficiently availed and maintained in the schools that facilitate teaching and learning processes.
• Sets goals and expectations, strategic resourcing and planning and coordinates teaching- learning processes and development of the schools.
• Chairs, manages and leads the management team of the schools
• Timely preparation of various reports of the school to Sher management
• Attends meetings related to the school and interacts pro actively with Company executives
• Monitors school-feed are implemented in accordance with the Company policy
• Plans medium and long term development of the schools, in collaboration and coordination with the Senior Leadership team of the Company

Skills set of the candidate

• Strong leadership and management skills
• Good interpersonal communication skills
• Advanced MS office user (Word, Excel and Powerpoint)
• Good report writing and planning ability
• Ability of writing and speaking in Afan Oromo, Amharic and English language

Required qualification and experiences

• Minimum BA but preferably Masters Degree graduate in educational planning and management or related field of study
• Have minimum of 15 years of work experiences as a School Director, preferably in private or public schools.

Due Date to apply: before 1 February 2023

How to apply:  Qualified applicants who fulfill above mentioned requirements can apply in sending their application letter and CV in English to email address: hrziway@sherethiopia.com

We are very proud of our students that took part in a cleaning event around the school premises today. Members of the environmental club collected hundreds of kilograms of waste. Litter is a persistent problem in Ethiopia. Fortunately, our students show that the new generation is willing to roll up their sleeves. Well done boys and girls!

Recently we hosted a group of 48 teachers and students from Addis Ababa University. After welcoming a brief presentation was given to them about the company and the growing and logistical processes. They showed great interest in the environmental and social practices of the company. The CSR strategy and projects were explained by Mr Aswin Endeman. After the presentation and discussion, a field visit was carried out at the greenhouse, grading and wetland. At the end, the participants declared that they were impressed with Sher Ethiopia’s development on social services and environmental protection. Finally, the group thanked Sher company for their hospitality and time spend with them on such a short notice.

We want to emphasize that we like to share our story with interested people. We do require groups to make an appointment well in advance.

For Sher school we are looking for two new teachers for different subjects.

Interested? Please have a look at our job vacancies for which Ethiojobs is supporting us and apply via their website.

Recently we started a new project for 1300 female students at our Sher-schools: Mela for her. Mela (መላ) means solution in Amharic. A solution for a problem that unfortunately exists for many young women and girls in Africa: a lack of affordable sanitary products.

For many people, menstrual hygiene is an inconvenience or taboo. For millions of girls around the world, it can pose barriers to education, health, self-esteem, and human rights. And for many, the start of menstruation typically means a loss of days in school.

MELA FOR HER is an Ethiopian social start-up enterprise that transforms women and girls’ lives across Ethiopia by providing them with affordable and eco-friendly menstrual products and menstrual health education. The Sher-schools and Mela for her teamed up and with the help of the Dutch Flower Foundation we will provide 1300 girls, in the age of 11-18 years, with a kit of menstrual aid products. Besides the kits, a team of experts will train a group of Sher-school teachers and through the girls-club all 1300 students will be offered a training on menstrual health.

We would like to thank the Mela for her team for the fruitful collaboration and we sincerely thank the Dutch Flower Foundation for their support now and their commitment to this project in the future. Together we contribute to a world where girls can enjoy their right to dignity so they can reach their full potential in life.

On Sunday November 26 Farmer Forest Day was celebrated at the Worja Kamo Hill. In this project we focus on reforestation and restoration of degraded lands together with IDH, VOCDA and the local community. Close to one million trees have been planted over the last 5 years.

During the celebration, attended by approx. 200 persons, the achievements of the project were celebrated. The area of 200 ha has revived, and biodiversity has increased. The project shows that communities can benefit from eco-friendly agriculture, forestry and income generating activities such as organic honey and Moringa soap production.

Recently, researchers have conducted a survey to assess the biodiversity of the rehabilitated area. Their findings are that the Worja micro-catchment is endowed with at least 29 tree and shrub species. This makes the micro-catchment far richer in species diversity and abundance than its adjacent surroundings where only a few tree species are observed scattered in the farm fields. Therefore, Worja micro-catchment can serve as a gene pool and seed reserve hotspot for important tree and shrub species.

Though the abundance of insects found in that area of land is high, their diversity is relatively low which is related to the fact there is lower coverage of vegetation which calls for the conservation and plantation of the area.

During the survey, 99 species of birds were spotted of which 6 are threatened birds’ species. Especially the three vulture species in the area are critically endangered and are found nesting and in good numbers in the area. Even more reason to continue with the project and keep all stakeholders aligned.

We recently started a special project in Ethiopia together with Van Dijk Flora and Dutch Flower Foundation. This school year, 1350 students at Sher schools aged 4 to 6 will receive a portion of probiotic yogurt full of healthy nutrients and building materials twice a week. One serving of milk provides a 5-year-old with 33% of the daily protein requirement and 10% of the daily calories. The yogurt is added to the existing hot meal that all KG-students receive every day at school.

With this project we make sure that children get the nutritious food they need. In this way we reduce the risk of malnutrition and increase the attendance of the children. For this project, there is a collaboration with two local dairy farmers where their sales are guaranteed, which provides work for no fewer than sixteen people.

We are very grateful with this generous help from our partners van Dijk Flora and Dutch Flower Foundation and would like to thank them on behalf of all the children, parents and teachers at the Sher schools.