Catholic Mission is committed to supporting LCCS by actively monitoring the delivery of their activities, management of their finances, and reporting against their performance. This project will be directed by Father Tekle Mekonnen.
Lideta Scholarship Program
Priority is given to orphans, children of single mothers, children with parents who are unemployed or on a low-income, and children of parents who are no longer working and have no access to a pension.
As a safe and formative space for students, the school’s vision is to produce graduates capable of becoming future leaders in Ethiopia.
The overall aim of this project is to ensure that all children in the region, regardless of their situation, can attend school and gain a quality education that will support them in the future.
Lideta Catholic Cathedral School caters to students from Year 5 to Year 12.
Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people
and the planet, now and into the future. Catholic Mission is committed to achieving the SDGs. In working
with our partners to develop projects, we consider the SDGs and how each activity might contribute
strategically to this shared global vision.
A range of SDGs can be seen being implemented in this project’s planned activities.
Through this project the LCCS aims to:
Maintain the good quality of education and keep school fees affordable for all the students.
Build the future of Ethiopia through offering scholarships to future doctors, engineers and other professions that will give the entire nation the foundation it needs to alleviate many of the problems it faces today.
Build the future of Ethiopia through offering scholarships to future doctors, engineers and other professions that will give the entire nation the foundation it needs to alleviate many of the problems it faces today.
The scholarships sponsor financially poor students and their parents, maintain low costs of education, and support the socio-pastoral activities of the Archdiocese by creating programs for over 1,200 women and youth in the area.
In another Catholic Mission supported project, the school is going to generate income by renting out spaces in a soon to be constructed commercial building to local businesses.
Cross-cutting policies
Catholic Mission has a code of conduct and cross-cutting policies that apply to every aspect of our work. We require project partners to comply with these policies before work on a project can commence. Each of these policies can be read in detail on the Catholic Mission website, by following the link “All Policies” at the bottom of the homepage.
The Archdiocese of Addis Ababa issued a Child Protection Policy in 2018, which binds clergy, religious, and all laypeople -no matter what their religious affiliation is- employed by Catholic institutions.
LCCS employs teachers of both genders on equal standards. Since there is another only girl’s school on the same premises, Grade 1 – 6 students are only boys. Girls are admitted from Grade 7 upwards. The classes are mixed and equally divided among the sexes.
Currently, the school provides scholarships both at the Junior and high school for about 260 students permanently, at junior school which is a boy’s school, 120 students are receiving a subsided fee of up to 80% of the annual fee, and the remaining 140 students are girls at the high school who receive the same amount of subsidising. This gender equality format will continue in the future when the scholarship program reaches its target goal in the coming three years.
Although there are still ethnic conflicts in the country, the students come from all backgrounds and are taught tolerance and acceptance. They celebrate the national feasts together. No specific group is privileged. Teachers are employed from all ethnic backgrounds provided they have the right qualifications.
Additionally, the school has a human rights club and organize several awareness programs and activities on human rights issues.