*3.12.2 Preschool and moral education (theme-12b)*

The researcher observed the kindergarten or the preschool, which was built by the community before the government built the schools. In the preschool, as Participant:1 said "the children differentiate the Amharic and English alphabet and learn numbers in the pre-school. In addition to this they learn moral education, like avoiding lying, being captious, making conflict between individuals and so on. At the end of every daily lesson the children say the slogan '*We growing children do not take anyone's property, if we find s.th lost somewhere we will return to back to the owner. We work collaboratively and sympathetically. Our peaceful life will progress*' this slogan is also applied in the community and have two messages; the first one is we believe that if we work in unity and sympathy we will reach what the other world reached, the second one is that anything that we get by our effort is belongs to us but anything that we get dropped from others should be return to the owner, if we did not get the owner we give it to the committee who organized to do this work, the committee search the owner and return it."

In the community taking people's money is a crime; the children also are learning it. The children learn not only in word but also in practice, because the community believe that speech and work should go in the same way, if the adults teach the children and fail to apply, the children give more attention to what is seen than what they listen to. So, the community teaches the children not only in word but also in practice, when the children's age becomes 7, they are sent to formal school (**Figure 8**).

There are kindergarten, primary and senior secondary and preparatory schools in the village. The kindergarten and the senior secondary (grade 9 to grade 10) schools were built by the community themselves and the primary school (grade 1 to grade 8) and preparatory school (grade 11 to grade 12) were built by the government, and the community also built public library (**Figures 9** and **10**).

### *3.12.3 Heath services*

There is one health center in the community and still managed by the board selected from the community.

**Figure 8.** *The community preschool, built by the community (photo of the author).* *An Ethnographic Study on Sense of a Community: The "Awramba" Experience DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.105953*

#### **Figure 9.**

*The community preparatory school (photo of the author).*

**Figure 10.** *The community public library (photo of the author).*
