Berri Maida Tigray ― Sheraro Center

The pilot prototype hostel was built in Seharti-Samre district. This prototype project was designed to meet the needs of high school girls, including extracurricular activities, creativity and critical thinking. The center was meant to be community and hostel residents owned and therefore one step closer to be sustained. Every thinking and effort has been invested to make this project self-sustained and replicable.

These achievements have now encouraged to design a project to expand its services to the Kunama minority. The Kunama people are the smallest nationality in population size in Tigrai. They reside mainly in the district of Lower Adiabo, bordering Eritrea. The great majority of the Kunama in Eritrea are estimated 50 to 60,000. The estimated population in Tigrai is 7 to 8,000 and are scattered in Kafta Humera district (Adebai-in Hilet kuku), Adi Goshu and in Lower Adiabo near Sheraro town in Tabia Lemlem. Although the state government built primary schools enabling them as it does to use their mother tongue to, dropout rates are very high and not many girls complete secondary education. The main reason is inability to afford staying at the nearest town where the secondary school is located away from home requiring more expenses for accommodations and living costs. The need for a hostel is to circumvent that gap.