In Ethiopia, a new school bears the names of three Maltese
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- 27 Jan 2023
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Rebecca Zammit Lupi, Karl Pace and Jonathan Chetcuti remembered with 1,000-strong school
Around 1,000 children in Ethiopia will be educated at a new school dedicated to the memory of three Maltese people.
The school in Jimma Bonga includes kindergarten, primary and secondary school classrooms and was inaugurated on Monday with a ceremony led by local bishop Markos Ghebremedhin.
It was funded through donations, including a crowdfunding campaign and support from the Sigma Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of the Sigma Group.
The secondary school will bear the name of Rebecca Zammit Lupi, Jonathan Chetcuti and Karl Pace, who all died in tragic circumstances within the past few years.
The school’s junior secondary school will be dedicated to Zammit Lupi, who was just 15 when she died due to cancer two years ago.
The kindergarten will bear Pace’s name. Pace died in a boat fire at the M?arr marina in 2020.
The school’s playgrounds are dedicated to Chetcuti, an avid volleyball player and sports enthusiast who was just 41 when he died in 2020.
Zammit Lupi’s father, Darrin, described the inauguration as “a dream come true, though a dream I wish I never had to have. Read More…
