EEI’s flagship project is the Haile-Manas Academy (HMA). HMA will be a world-class co-educational secondary boarding school for 400 students of promise recruited from across the country, opening to its first class of 9th graders in September 2020. We aspire to admit students without regard to financial circumstances.

Through depth of inquiry, hands-on problem solving, and the sustained shared experiences that a residential setting allows, we will build resilient, independent thinkers, purposeful, community-minded individuals and engaged, enterprising young citizens. 

We expect our graduates to have significant impact on their communities – whether those communities are local, national or global.

The Haile-Manas Academy will be a model school for Ethiopia

HMA will model innovative, student-centered approaches to teaching and learning.  We are designing a program that will be self-reflective and data driven, so that we can systematically share our results with others.  We have established strong connections to local, regional and national educational and governmental institutions whose representatives will be frequent visitors to the Academy, and we will continue to nurture and expand such relationships. 

Please scroll below to see our campus plan, architectural renderings and photos of construction progress.