The project was financed with the help of Mercedes Benz Bank and donations received during the Menschen für Menschen Road Show in 2007. The new Degem Higher Secondary School is the first Higher Secondary School in a region of 110.000 inhabitants.

Ralf Bos and Eckart Witzigmann won their bet to Karlheinz Böhm. They raised over 250,000 Euro within 100 days to build a school in Ethiopia. Now the action goes on.