The Fregenet Foundation is dedicated to creating educational opportunities for improvised children in Ethiopia. The Foundation provides high quality early education as a means to overcome poverty, reduce AIDS, and gender inequality for under-served children. The Fregenet Foundation set out to provide this by building a school that has lower teacher / student ratio (1 to 30) and provides everything for free (meals, uniform, books, education, transportation), including a free pre- Kindergarten and Kindergarten program.

The Fregenet Foundation is a non-profit corporation dedicated to providing early childhood education to children from low-income families in Ethiopia. The first Fregenet School (Fregenet KidanLehitsanat) opened its doors in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in the fall of 2004, and enrolled 31 children of ages 4 to 6 from a small and impoverished community in Addis Abeba. The vision for the school was inspired by Fregenet Tafesse Woubshet, an Ethiopian-American, who died in 2003 before she could realize her dream of returning to Ethiopia to help children. Thanks to generous benefactors, in the school's 10 years of operation, the number of students enrolled has grown to 400. About the School: Many students are from single parent households, while some others are from families of unemployed parents or from precariously employed families. Students are selected in a fair manner and in accordance with the nondiscrimination policy of the Foundation and the School. We believe that some of the students, if not all, may not have had the opportunity to go to school had it not been for the Foundation. The school currently supports 370 students. There are two classes for the Kindergarten, or "KG." KG 1: These are the youngest children, ages 3 to 4, in their first months at a teaching establishment. KG 2: These students have completed one year of KG and are able to identify letters and numbers and to think in logical patterns. Grade 1: Students in Grade 1 are 5 to 6 years old and are developing reading and writing skills in Amharic (the national language of Ethiopia) and English. Grade 2: These students have completed Grade 1, and their curriculum consists of reading and writing in English and Amharic, as well as arithmetic, science, social studies and other core academic subjects. Lessons are given in accordance with the curriculum required by the Federal Ministry of Education. The textbooks used are also those prepared and approved by the relevant educational authorities of the country. All students receive education at no charge. School uniforms and school supplies are also distributed to each student at no cost to their families.