Since 2012, Pizza Ranch has supported the Tesfa Foundation to help support schools in Ethiopia. $.50 cents per pound of Pizza Ranch coffee used is donated to the Tesfa Foundation. Over $200,000 has been contributed from Pizza Ranch restaurants to the Tesfa Foundation in the last 12 years.

These Funds help support 3 schools with over 800 students:

• Kololo school: Grades Pre-K through 7^th (A 7^th grade class was added for the first time this school year and an 8^th grade class is planned for next school year.)
• Azedebo school: Pre-K and Kindergarten
• Fundame school: Pre-K and Kindergarten

Recently Pizza Ranch sent 2 executives and 3 franchisees to Ethiopia to visit the 3 Tesfa Foundation schools in rural Southern Ethiopia that are supported by Pizza Ranch through the coffee program as well as supported by Pizza Ranch owners and managers that sponsor students. In addition to visiting each of the schools to see class in action, they also got to see the students receiving their school uniforms and backpacks for the year. The Pizza Ranch Team also visited 5 different homes of students from the schools to better understand the lives of Tesfa Foundation students and their families.

Click on the links to learn more about the Tesfa Foundation or to help sponsor an Ethiopian student.