Ethiopia Education Initiatives (EEI) was founded to provide world-class educational opportunities for talented Ethiopian students and to help ignite positive change in education more broadly. Their first project is the creation of the Haile-Manas Academy (HMA). The Academy will be a model school in and for Ethiopia, and the first of its kind.  It will provide Ethiopia’s most promising secondary students a world-class education and will help transform the education available to all Ethiopian students.

The timing is right for this transformative undertaking. As one of the world’s poorest countries, with a GDP of just $722 per person (PPP $2,100), Ethiopia is burdened with an antiquated education system, yet it has the world’s fastest-growing economy in 2018 and a population of over 109 million with a median age of just 18. Ethiopia is ready to transform itself into a regional leader and economic powerhouse – but Ethiopia’s young people, its greatest asset, must be equipped to forge the way forward.