Registration and governance
Meskot Education is a charitable nonprofit organization, registered in Ethiopia and in the United States. This page sets out where it is registered and who governs it.
Registration
Meskot Education is a charitable nonprofit organization registered in Ethiopia and the United States. Ethiopia CSO Registry No. 5476 | U.S. EIN: 38-4273390.
- Ethiopia
- Registered with the Agency for Civil Society Organizations as a local organization on 1 March 2021, Registry No. 5476, under the Organization of Civil Societies Proclamation No. 1113/2019
- United States
- Meskot Education Inc, recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 38-4273390. Tax-exempt since 13 June 2023; gifts from U.S. donors are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
- Annual returns
- Form 990-N filed with the IRS for 2023, 2024 and 2025
- Locations
- Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia ▪ Reno, Nevada, USA
What Meskot is
A charitable nonprofit, not a school.
Meskot Education is a charitable nonprofit organization, not a school or academic institution. We develop educational resources and work with teachers, schools, and communities to help children learn, wherever access to good education is limited.
Meskot does not run schools, charge fees or award qualifications. Schools that host an Offline Learning Corner remain their own; Meskot provides lessons and equipment, trains teachers and follows up.
Governance
A board oversees Meskot's work; the Founder and Managing Director leads it day to day.
Founder and Managing Director
Board
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Hiyabu Desta
Board chair
Read about Hiyabu Desta
Hiyabu Desta is an electrical engineer. He founded Electromechanical Engineering PLC, heads the Addis Ababa light railway electric supply coordination office at the Ethiopian Electric Utility Corporation, and serves on the board of the Ethiopian Standards Agency.
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Fitsum Worknhe
Board member
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Yonas Tesfay
Board member; lead operations manager
Read about Yonas Tesfay
Yonas Tesfay has more than 12 years' experience in information technology and runs his own business. He manages Meskot's operations.
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Betreyosef Yohanes
Board member; designer
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Yishak Abreham
Board member; learning coordinator
Read about Yishak Abreham
Yishak Abreham taught for more than five years and ran a school's educational resources portal and IT centre. He coordinates learning at Meskot.
Team
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Tadesse Araya
Pedagogy consultant
Read about Tadesse Araya
Tadesse Araya has worked for more than 30 years as an educator and as the principal of a public school. He oversees the content of Meskot's lessons.
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Haftamu Hailu
Content development head
Read about Haftamu Hailu
Haftamu Hailu is a full-stack developer with more than 11 years' experience. He leads Meskot's content development.
Child safeguarding
How Meskot keeps children safe in its programs.
Meskot's programs bring adults into contact with children, in Offline Learning Corners and in school-supply distributions. Our child safeguarding policy sets out how everyone who works with Meskot keeps children safe, and how anyone can raise a concern.
No adult is ever alone with a child in a Meskot program, children are photographed only with consent, and every concern is reported the same day.