Winifred Annie Coate MBE (25 April 1893 – 23 November 1977) was a British missionary headteacher and relief organizer.

The college had students from different faiths, multi ethnic and different nationalities and they were being taught during periods of sectarian atrocities.

Coate was very protective of the schools atmosphere and she had a wall built to stop youths from overlooking the playground.

[1] In 1951 she was made an OBE in the birthday honours as a British subject resident in the Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan.

Her project became a model for similar schemes where charity money was used to not just supply relief but also work and land.