Abaarso School

About the organization

Abaarso School of Science and Technology (Abaarso School) is a non-profit, co-educational boarding school in Abaarso, located in Maroodi Jeex, Somali-land. It was founded in 2009 by Jonathan Starr, an American former finance executive. After donating half a million dollars of his own money, he gathered an international teaching staff.[1] Within six years, the school has sent over 60 of its students to elite prep schools and colleges, including Amherst, Georgetown, MIT and Harvard.