Sandford International School was known until the recent change of name as the Sandford English Community School. The origins of the school can be traced back to the early 1940s when Mrs. Christine Sandford, wanted to establish an Englishspeaking school for her children. The English –speaking community was very small at the time but the Ethiopian nobility also wanted access to an English education for their children. Christine Sandford was the wife of Colonel Sandford, the Head of British Military Mission to Ethiopia during World War II, who along with Cunningham and Wingate, led the British contingent that was dispatched by the British Government to help Emperor Haile Selassie I and the Ethiopian army reclaim the country from 5 year of Italian occupation under Mussolini’s Government.

Address: Sandford International School P.O Box 30056MA, Addis Ababa Ethiopia.
Telephone: 00251-11-123 38 92
Fax: 00251-11-1233728
Website: http://www.sandfordschool.org/