Mikayil Aliyev, Baku
ABC is a non-profit education initiative owned by Azerbaijan International Education Centre (AIEC) and sponsored by Azerbaijan’s State Oil Company, (SOCAR). ABC was established as a British School in 2012, on a site west of central Baku. After three months of intensive staff training in the SOCAR Training Centre, the school opened the EYFS department and Year 1 on the 1st November 2012. At that time, there were 14 teachers and a total of 20 children, a number that had grown to 25 by June 2013.