More TrueLight students headed to University!

In Ethiopia each year hundreds of thousands of 12th grade students take a National Exam, and TLC students are no exception.  The government uses the results of this exam to determine whether students can go on to University, to which Universities they will attend, as well as which field they will study.  Students have no say in where they go to school, or what they study.  Students who score the highest on the exam will attend Universities, and others will attend colleges and vocational schools.

This year, the national pass rate for University was only 3%.  Thirteen TrueLight students took the National Exam, and of those 13, 5 scored well enough to move on to University. That is a pass rate of 38%!  We know that these scores are the fruit of years of study and hard work by the students, as well as countless hours of support and tutoring provided by TLC staff.  We praise God for the ways that He is using TLC to change the trajectory of our student's lives.

Those students will not be attending University, will go on to  study at a local college or vocational school.  This will allow them to transition to the workplace with necessary skills to become self supporting citizens.  In the fall of 2023 there will be a total of 22 TLC students who are attending University or college. 

The expenses for these students is markedly more than TLC children who are still in grade school, although the cost is minimal compared to US college expenses.  $1500 will cover the school fees, supplies, transportation cost, and monthly food stipends for a student's entire 4 years of study.