Adventist builds Ethiopians school
A USA based Adventist Ethiopian man has spent $600 000 on building a high school in his native homeland.
Adu Worku, director of Pacific Union College’s Nelson Memorial Library was honored at a two day festival before about 6000 people for funding and directing the construction of a large school campus.
According to the Adventist Network website, Worku believed the facility was for students to rise from high school to tertiary education.
“Completion of high school is a requirement to a college or university education. That is the reason this new high school is important,” Worku told The Adventist Network in Angwin, California.
According to the Network, the honor was also a result of the struggle the man had gone through to educate himself where and when an elementary education lacked.
“The pattern of a man’s life where I lived ,was that you shepherded sheep and goats from age seven until you are twelve,” he said.
He explained that at twelve boys graduated into farmers which life they would live till death.
Worku holds a master’s degree in history and education from Andrews University in Michigan.
He also has a master’s degree in library science from the University of California and an honorary doctorate from Southwestern Adventist University in Texas.
Worku raised the money from friends and two foundations before constructing the school named Worku Memorial Academy where the first graduation will occur this year.
Adu Worku, director of Pacific Union College’s Nelson Memorial Library was honored at a two day festival before about 6000 people for funding and directing the construction of a large school campus.
According to the Adventist Network website, Worku believed the facility was for students to rise from high school to tertiary education.
“Completion of high school is a requirement to a college or university education. That is the reason this new high school is important,” Worku told The Adventist Network in Angwin, California.
According to the Network, the honor was also a result of the struggle the man had gone through to educate himself where and when an elementary education lacked.
“The pattern of a man’s life where I lived ,was that you shepherded sheep and goats from age seven until you are twelve,” he said.
He explained that at twelve boys graduated into farmers which life they would live till death.
Worku holds a master’s degree in history and education from Andrews University in Michigan.
He also has a master’s degree in library science from the University of California and an honorary doctorate from Southwestern Adventist University in Texas.
Worku raised the money from friends and two foundations before constructing the school named Worku Memorial Academy where the first graduation will occur this year.