Category: School build

The Oromia/Ethiopia executive committee of WADA Education Foundation wrote this report to update our status and makes you understand our current situation. The executive committee performed the following activities: –

     Evaluate the performances of the committee during the year 2022 or 2014 E.C and found that the committee didn’t accomplish what was planned.

      Prepared performance report and annual plan for 2022/23 or 2015 Ethiopian fiscal year, and submitted to the Oromia Attorney office 

     Prepared grand summary cost of the construction of classrooms for 400 students, offices and toilets (renewal of license) 

     Renewed the foundation license for the next one year with the support of Tokke Kutaye district education office (It wrote us support letter)

As we already communicated you the plot of land donated by Workneh Dechasa for the school was not sufficient as per the requirements of Oromia Education Bureau for a one Storey build. The discussion on the land requirements which was started earlier was not finalized due to the situation in Oromia. The situation continues to be worse at present. 

Hirpa Abu – Secretary WADA

On May 7th 2021 officers of Hundee Barumsa Warqinaa Dachaasaa (WADA) visited the proposed site of the Workneh Dechasa Memorial School. This is WADA Secretary Hirpa Abu’s account of the visit.

Good morning all!!

We, the executive committee of Workneh Dechasa Education Foundation board traveled to the birth place of Workneh Dachasa, Guder, Melka Dhaga on May 06,2021. The committee held the meeting with officials & community elders from Tokke Kutaye district and Guder town including children of the surrounding of Melka Dhaga.
The participants from the administration & education offices of the district and the Mayor of Guder town appreciate the objectives of the foundation and promised to support particularly the building of the Primary school. The official raised different questions and the committee members gave enough explanations. After discussion, officials suggested the followings:

Ø Complying of the school to be built to the standards/requirements of Oromia education Bureau;

Ø Immediate site plan and handover of the land as donation by Workneh’s family to the Foundation

Ø Obtaining ownership certificate and construction permit from Guder Municipality;

Ø Preparing detail project plan after taking Primary school design and signing agreement with the Oromia Education Bureau;

Ø Starting and accomplishing on time. This is a high concern for them as they experienced with other NGOs.

Community elders & children were very happy and they will wait eagerly for the beginning of the project. They hoped that the project will solve their multisided problems of the learning process. As they told us, the children were very tiresome after going a distance of 5km to 1o km to reach the school and not following the teaching learning processes properly.

The elders also promised to coordinate the community to support by their labor, delivering local building materials, giving security services, follow up and monitoring

Generally we had a beautiful day and accomplished our plan successfully.

At the end, the Committee thanks a lot Workneh’s family for their honored hospitality and invitation of delicious lunch and drinks not only for us but all other guests.

Goodbye

Hirpa Abu