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Guidi, Pierre – History of Education, 2018
In 1897, four French Franciscan sisters arrived in Ethiopia, having been summoned there by the Capuchin missionaries. In 1925, they ran an orphanage, a dispensary, a leper colony and 10 schools with 350 girl students. The students were freed slaves, orphans and upper-class Ethiopian and European girls. After providing a brief background to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nuns, Educational History, Single Sex Schools