Before the first lesson: listening to families and preparing teachers
Before the Adikentibay Offline Learning Corner opens, about 100 community members took part in Meskot's orientation, and 13 teachers were trained to run it.
Meskot's work starts with the community it serves. Before the Adikentibay Offline Learning Corner opens at Adikentibay Complete Primary School in Shire, the team did two things first, in May 2026.
Listening to families
About 100 parents and community members took part in Meskot's orientation. It explained what an Offline Learning Corner is and how it will work, and gave families the chance to say what their children need. Families, together with the school's principal and deputy principal, help decide which children the corner should serve first.
Preparing the teachers
Thirteen teachers took part in an orientation and training. They worked through how the corner will run day to day: playing Meskot's Tigrinya video lessons from USB drives, guiding children in small groups by grade, helping each child choose the lessons they need, and keeping records of attendance and lesson use.
Those records matter. They show which lessons children use and how often they come, and they are how Meskot will learn what to improve.
Photographs: Mikael Kiros and the Meskot Education team.