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SCHOOL NAME: St. Michael Primary School - Aiga DISTRICT: Irob YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT: 1972 G.C. BENEFICIARIES: 3320 An Italian group in Cornuda is currently helping to sponsor this school. Saint Michael Primary School of Aiga is in Irob district. It is located near the Eritrean border on the top of Mount Aiga, which is one of the highest mountains in the Eastern zone of Tigray Region. Aiga is 66 km. From Adigrat and is accessible to vehicle. Eastern Tigray where most of our diocesan schools are located is somewhat semiarid mountainous region and is densely populated. The land is eroded and degraded, and the rains are scarce and notoriously unreliable. The entire population lives in poverty and long distance from next nearest school. That was why the Catholic Church had built the school of St. Michael primary school in Aiga in order to enable the people to make the best of a bad situation and to improve quality of life. The occupation of the majority of the people is farming, beekeeping, and raising cattle is also practiced. The school has contributed a lot to the community by giving formal education according to the curriculum and policy of education of the country. Moral education is also given at all grades with the vision: "to establish the kingdom of God through promoting integral human development, focusing on the development of person in general body-soul." The community appreciates the way the school cultivates the young with academic subjects and above all its commitment to foster the spiritual and moral values of Catholic Church. The basic ideas of Christian ethics are taught and reflected in the day-to-day activities of the school. The school has been teaching and serving to promote peace, justice and love, in the community.In the year 1998 when the Ethio-Eritrean border conflict remained for more than two years it was most affected parish and community because fighting occurred there to uproot the invading Eritrean forces from the place and liberate it from the occupation, as it is naturally a strategic location. The people of Aiga and its surrounding were displaced during those years and lost a lot of their belongings. The parish Church and the school had to be rehabilitated/ rebuild anew by the Catholic Church which costed a lot of funds. |