About ODA Boarding School
To improve the current generation life and to pave the way for the future, education has exceptional role. For more than two decades Oromia Development Association has constructed schools and equipped them with basic educational facilities for community services. Providing quality education for our community is one of its major goals. ODA has opened Boarding School, allocating huge budget and work towards raising future competent, committed, responsible, intellectual leaders and model professionals for the region and country at large.
Overview of ODA Boarding School
Boarding school is an institution where children live within premises while being given formal instruction. Students in the boarding school study and live during the school year with their fellow students. The concept of boarding school is an intensive form of education in which students live at school and visit their families only at summer. The history of boarding school goes back over hundreds of years. However in the past, boarding schools were exclusively joined by monasteries and royal families. But now boarding schools are becoming popular even in developing countries and have been used to increase the educational opportunities of marginalized and disadvantaged students as well.
ODA Boarding school is opened at East Showa of Adama and Bishoftu town giving full package services besides providing with quality education.
Adama Boarding school started in Adama town in February 2014G.C/2006 E.C. Since then it has been developed to be a successful boarding school proving a first class education to students from across Oromia. Both schools have been working to assure quality of education since its establishment. The teachers are supporting the students even after school time without additional payment.
Vision and Mission of ODA Boarding School
Vision: Envision seeing ODA Boarding school become the fountain of best minds to create dedicated future leaders who serve humanity in a diverse national and global society.
Mission: To provide high quality education, nurture talent and innovation and to develop moral and spiritual well-being of each student in preparation for a life of service.
Motto: Quality Education for Boarders
Slogan: We are role Models
Boarding School core functions:
- Providing quality education for students.
- Preparing students for excellent national examination results
- Identifying and developing talents of students
- Developing student character to bring out virtue
The specific objectives of ODA Boarding School are:
- To create center of research and excellence in area of science and technology
- To give opportunity to academically high achiever students to exercise their potential in a very comfortable boarding school
- To generate sense of competition and commitment among families and student to join the boarding school after completion of primary education
- Enable to create attraction with the surrounding high school there by share experience and serve as resources center.
Why ODA Boarding School
It is quite clear that the government of Ethiopia has made commendable progress in the provision of education to its citizens in line with its education sector development program, i.e program for accelerated and sustained development for eradication of poverty and the Growth and Transformation Plan.
Similarly, the regional government of Oromia has mobilized all major development actors in the efforts of developing its human resources by expanding access to primary, secondary, TVET and regional college level education within its mandate.
Nevertheless the problems associated with education quality, unless timely addressed may impede production of capable human capitals that can lead the region and the country at large to unprecedented advancement and ensure dignified live for the broader citizen. It is towards this contribution that Oromia Development Association (ODA) envisioned to promote special Boarding Schools for bright and best achieving students, with special focus and preferential treatment for female, physically disabled and underserved area students.
The boarding school is aimed to enroll high academic achiever students from different corners across the region based on the merit of their academic competence. Thus, ODA believes to establish Boarding school a trend that helps to a mass well equipped and cultured professionals as well as citizens who can adequately stand against the imminent life challenges. According to ODA best academic achievers can grasp new technologies, scientific knowledge and skills easily and assist link the world with Oromia in particular and the nation in general. This paves the way to have future capable professionals such as teachers, leaders, scientistss, engineers, doctors, etc.