The evaluation team has confirmed that all the visited schools as indicated above have additional classrooms at the end of the project and even now. For example Gizachew Lerebo, principal, Bifola Primary School, Misha Woreda of SNNPR witnessed saying “my school has increased from initial 3 classrooms when LIA-E established it to 5 at the end of the project and now we have six and working towards adding one more. The number of teachers grew from 4 at the start to 10 at present. The support to the schools from the government and the community has continued after the end of the project up to this day. The support to from government in most schools came in the forms of block grant (financial support to each school from the woreda administration based on per child enrolled in the school) and School grant (financial support from the Federal based on per child enrolled in the school). While the block grant amount varied from woreda to woreda based on the availability of resources, school grants are provided uniformly all over the country. All the visited schools have confirmed that they receive both grants. In addition to the block grants some woredas such as Siraro have built a modern 4 classroom structure with a total of Birr 700,000.00 immediately after ADAA handed over the school. For the upgrading of Bifola school in Misha Woreda of SNNPR, the local government has agreed to provide teachers, textbooks and other school expenses while the community has already contributed money and material for the expansion which will be ready for the academic year that starts in September 2018. According to the PTA members of Afer Gebeya primary school, The PTA and the school administration decided to temporarily hire a teacher from the schools own income to replace a teacher on maternity leave so that children will not miss class which is an evidence of giving high value to education. The school principal also confirmed that a female teacher has been assigned. Taking about this matter, Mekuanint Haile a member of the PTA stated that they hired the teacher temporarily because they learned the value of education from WCAT, and cared that children should not miss class. The evidence so far indicates that the schools have continued to obtain support from local government and the community. However, no donor or other NGO supports to the schools was reported after the end of the Kinderpostzegels assisted projects ended. There were however, isolated cases where, World Vision provided playing materials for preschool classes in Siraro woreda. The present information exchange between the NGOs and the WEOs/school with regard to former schools is almost nil with the exception of occasional experience sharing visits of former CLFZ 22
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