22/09/2020
Hello family, friends, and supporters,
It has been some time since we last communicated with you, and we are extremely happy to share with you what will be our final update on the progress of the Key Amba School Renovation Project.
First of all, we would like to sincerely thank each of you that has donated your time, resources, and moral support to us over these past 2 years as we embarked on this journey. None of the progress we have made since then would be possible without each of your contributions. Thanks to your invaluable support, thousands of children will reap the benefits of an improved learning environment over the years to come.
We are very pleased to share with you that we are nearly finished with the construction of the second block of classrooms at Key Amba, which will be named the , which will complement the already-completed Queen Zewditu block of classrooms that were inaugurated one year ago. Despite the many challenges faced over the course of the past year, and in particular, a grueling six months as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are now on track to finish the second classroom block within the next two weeks. We are sharing these pictures and video with you so that you can see the current status of the construction as of today.
With the donations and in-kind contributions we have received to date, we can now cover all of the remaining materials to complete the construction of the block. However, we will require approximately $400 more in order to pay for the labor costs for this final work. Any final support you can provide us to meet these last costs would thus be incredibly helpful.
We were also recently notified by Go Fund Me that they will be closing all fundraisers as of 30 September 2020, as they are transitioning to a new financial management system. As a result, our fundraiser (https://gf.me/u/yucszn) will likely be closed as of that date. Before this occurs, we wanted to share this final update with all of you, and to thank you once more for all of the support you have provided us through this project. We are eternally grateful to each one of you, and we hope to build upon this project with similar efforts in the years ahead.
With sincere thanks,
Axumite and Jason