ETSK Technical High School

AFRICA’S FUTURE, ONE RWANDAN STUDENT AT A TIME

ETSK is a rural boarding high school set on one of Rwanda’s thousand hills, above a beautiful lake, just a one-hour drive from Kigali, the capital of Rwanda – a country that many believe to be the future development model for all of Africa.

This private vocational high school educates up to 350 motivated boys and girls, teaching the skills necessary to find a job or progress to a university on a government scholarship. Specialties include CONSTRUCTION, COMPUTER SCIENCE, AND CULINARY ARTS.

OUR STORY

In 1968, an Italian-trained, German priest named Father Hermann Schultz started a village for homeless children in Musha, Rwanda.  In his own words:

I discovered the locals were both illiterate and jobless. When I asked what I could do to help them, they answered that they wanted a place to be educated and learn a trade.  So that’s what I gave them – starting with the Youth Village in 1968 and progressing to a separate vocational high school in 2008.

Completely destroyed during the Rwandan genocide, he rebuilt the village even bigger and, at its peak, housed and fed over 1000 displaced children. Then, with extensive donations from friends in Italy, Germany, and Lithuania, Father Hermann started what is now the ETSK Technical High School in 2008, with the big idea of providing job skills.

AN IMPORTANT MISSION

ETSK’s mission is to support Rwanda’s growth and to continue Father Hermann’s vision in one of the poorest areas of Rwanda, by educating young people in the skills necessary for 100% of them to find a job or enroll in a university.

EXCITING PRIORITIES

Our new educational challenge is to become a top trade school in Rwanda, with an emphasis on English proficiency and “self-learning,” so that our students can self-adapt to a rapidly modernizing  Rwandan and African economy. We are currently rated by the Rwandan Government to be #6 out of 97 technical high schools in Rwanda. Our next goal is to be in the top three.

A FABULOUS OPPORTUNITY

To Educate For The Future

It takes a team to build a great school. The base is already there: a competent teaching staff, a motivated administration, and an impressive physical plant.