Fresh and Green Academy was started by Muday (pronounced Moo-dye) Mitiku in the Yeka Kifle Ketema neighborhood in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2000. Originally it was founded as a for-profit school, but when Muday saw there were so many hungry children begging on the streets, she started to let them in to the school. The parents of the students who were paying tuition objected to their children going to school with the street children and pulled out.
Enter some intrepid flight attendants. On a life-changing volunteer trip to Fresh and Green Academy, they saw the school was in dire need of funds or it would fold. Trish Hack-Rubinstein, Amir Schutzer and Tim McNamee founded “Friends of Fresh and Green” as a not-for-profit corporation, whose sole mission is to keep the school going.
Today the school provides three meals a day, an education and basic medical care to 140 students, pre-Kindergarten through 6th grade. It also supports a Mother’s Cooperative that allows the mothers of the students to make crafts, thus empowering them and allowing them to feed their other children and themselves.
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, under the guidance of Muday Mitiku, Fresh and Green Academy has taught and brought literacy to hundreds of children since 2000.
The school is located 12 km northeast of the city center on Amsara Road, directly across from the beginning of the wall that surrounds the Kotebe Teacher’s College.
phone-251 911 718 205