About MenelikEducation

 

MenelikEducation is a nonprofit educational organisation, working at minimal cost to ensure that its help and assistance reaches those who need it most.  It is dedicated to expanding people's knowledge  in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  All donations to it are tax deductible because our work is humanitarian.

 

MenelikEducation grew out of the recognition by many Congolese citizens that the current system is failing and that there is a better way to educate children.   MenelikEducation Ltd and the Groupe Scolaire Lembo officially opened the doors of the Lembo-Menelik International Academy in September 2008.   The academy has since formed partnership with Ecole Laique de Kintambo, an abandoned state run school and Ecole St Georges, a catholic run school. 

 

We have gradually gained recognition for the good work we are doing in he DRC and more schools in the capital city of Kinshasa where we are based, are seeking to join the partnership.

 

About our Partnership

 

Our partnership is a regroupment of educational community oriented schools for children aged three to nineteen years. The accommodation in some of our centres are quite modest but we are currently looking at funding opportunities for improvements to make the schools more user-friendly.  They are all situated in very deprived areas therefore provide a plus to the communities.  On reaching the age of seven the children mainly transfer to our Primary and Secondary Schools.

 

We know for certain that Congolese women are more often than not exploited and lack access to capital as well as the ability to generate income.  Therefore, MenelikEducation hopes to establish and provide financial support to “Self-Help” groups.  These groups will predominately be made up of women, to start small-scale income-generating activities through our Micro-enterprise Development Programme. We will provide start-up technology, capital, and other resources to various groups for the implementation of projects such as sewing and tailoring shops, bee-keeping projects, horticulture projects, and fisheries. We will build a network of micro-enterprise groups to whom we will provide, through the Resource Centre, project advice and guidance, as well as assist in facilitating knowledge and resource sharing between the groups.

The schools are based in the following areas:

 

 

1.    Kasa-Vubu,

2.       Ngiri-Ngiri,

3.       Bumbu,

4.       Bandal,

5.       Kintambo, and

6.       Ngaliema.