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How to Contact ADOA

Armacheho Developmental Organization and

Association (ADOA), Inc.
Mailing Address: ADOA
Post Office Box 4242
Redlands, Ca. 92375 / (USA)
Telephone: 909-561-1434
Fax: xxx-xxx-xxxx
E-Mail: info@armacheho.com
Website: http://www.armacheho.com

2. About ADOA

The Armacheho Developmental Organization and Association (ADOA), Inc... Is a

non political, non governmental and non profitable public benefit organization.
ADOA's mission is to provide critical relief and developmental assistance
primarily to the ADOA community both in Ethiopia and Diaspora.

3. Mission Statement
ADOA is a non-profitable public beneficial corporation that will register under
Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. We are dedicated to the
promotion and enhancement of development, educational and charitable
organization and are committed to assisting the ADOA people in Ethiopia—
victims of both natural disasters such as drought and man-made problems, such
as wars, forced displacement, and the destruction of its socio-economic fabric.
ADOA is a nonsectarian organization, which embraces a policy prohibiting
discriminate against people because of their creed, race, color, gender, or
political opinions.
One of the main objectives of ADOA is to provide relief and rehabilitation
services through medical assistance to children, senior citizens, and other
vulnerable people primarily in the ADOA Region (northwest Ethiopia).
With adequate resources, ADOA will expand its coverage to other affected areas
of Ethiopia.
It is important to have enough food and nutrition security for the people of ADOA
whenever exposed to drought. Rehabilitating the people of ADOA who have
been adversely affected by the border war between Ethiopia and Sudan and
assisting the people of ADOA to achieve socio-economic self-reliance is also
very crucial.
ADOA is dedicated to organizing, developing and supporting sustainable
programs in partnership with local governmental, religious, and private agencies
on site. In order to achieve the goals and objectives of its mission and
philosophy, ADOA will seek internal and external as well as national and
international resources.

4. The Goals of ADOA

Promote ideas of development and education for the ADOA.

Campaign against illiteracy and backwardness, both in the cultural setting and
economic realm, so as to accelerate the development march of ADOA in the 21st
century.
Encourage all interested regions to prioritize educational development in an
effort to enhance.
Encourage ADOA to facilitate good governance and the culture of democracy,
and inevitably permit the development of market forces with a human face.
Appeal to the relatively developed nations or potential donors to accelerate their
investment in ADOA in an effort to promote genuine economic development.
Diagnose the real problems encountered by Ethiopian Regions especially in
Armacheho in their inability to realize a development and education agenda that
can overhaul their respective states economy.
Formulate development and educational policies and strategies [including
designing curriculum for schools and higher institutions of learning as well as
political economy analysis on the state of development] for Armacheho in
general and specific regions in particular.
Solicit funds and services from foundations, organizations, governments, and
generous donors for fulfilling the goals of ADOA.
On top of the above important goals, ADOA will provide a moral support to
recognize ADOA member students, both in Ethiopian and Diaspora, with awards.

5. Vision of ADOA
Our vision is that all people in the ADOA land: Have enough food whenever
exposed to drought and famine, attain a permanent solution to their recurrent
drought and lack of water problems through dam-building and irrigation projects,
get access to clean water for drinking through well-digging and water purification
projects, get appropriate care they need for the HIV, tuberculosis, and other
endemic diseases through therapeutic and preventive measures and empower
the people with developmental and educational programs in order to achieve
socio-economic self-reliance.

6. Objectives of ADOA
To achieve its goals and fulfill its mission, ADOA will carry out the following
objectives:
Coordinate and mobilize all ADOA descendants—in Ethiopia and in the
Diasporas—to commit themselves to support the people of Armacheho ( ) in
need of humanitarian, developmental and educational assistance;
Coordinate activities with national and international groups to enable and
strengthen humanitarian, rehabilitative, educational and developmental outreach
endeavors by educating the public through the Internet and other communication
media as well as by seeking and raising necessary resources.
Seek national and international partnership with various sectors of American
society interested in enabling ADOA to achieve and implement its goals of
helping the Armacheho minority of Ethiopia.
Develop a short and long term strategic plan of one to ten years for the ADOA to
make its outreach programs effective and operational.
Produce and circulate a periodic newsletter to serve as a vehicle of
communication between ADOA in the United States and to keep ALMM (  in
the homeland aware of the work of ADOA on their behalf.
Provide information, including photographs and videos as well as oral briefings,
to media organizations and charitable groups about conditions in Armacheho
land, the needs of its people and the activities of ADOA and other official and
non-governmental organizations aimed at helping the Armacheho people.

7. What Will Armacheho Developmental and

Organizational Association / ADOA Do?
Projects to Support:
ADOA will support and assist in funding the following projects in Armacheho land
in collaboration with existing agencies and institutions in that particular
geographical area:

A Relief/Emergency Projects
Water Projects
 Strengthen famine early warning
 Household food security and nutrition projects
 Health Projects
Housing and Family Rehab Projects
 School Building Rehabilitation Projects
Education Projects
Agricultural Projects
 Animal livestock Projects
Industrial Projects
 Scholarship Projects
 Historical Sites Preservation Projects and
Promote the ADOA culture and amplify its legacies.
8. How Will ADOA Execute Its Mission?
In Armacheho land (Ethiopia)
ADOA will fulfill its mission of relief and rehabilitation as well as educational and
developmental operations for the Armacheho people by:

Empowering the People of ADOA

ADOA is committed to empowering the Armacheho people toward economic,
educational and developmental self-reliance by materially and morally supporting
them and helping them getting organized locally, nationally and internationally as
well as by the employment of intellectual and skilled-professional resources
available within the educated class of the urban ADOA community to invest in the
larger rural needy ADOA communities.

Subsidizing and Supporting Grass-root Organizations of ADOA

ADOA strongly believes in the importance of establishing and supporting grass-
root organizations of ADOA for the Armacheho people and therefore is strongly
committed to help develop and assist such organizations, which will be
instrumental in implementing ADOA’s programs locally in the Armacheho land as
well as nationally for the needy ADOA communities at large.
 Collaborating with Other Existing Governmental, Church, Private, and
International

Agencies Interested or Involved in the Armacheho land

ADOA is particularly interested in, and committed to, long-term and
permanent solutions for the Armacheho people’s recurrent problems.
They include drought, war, poverty, as well as widespread diseases.
The latter will be addressed through education and supply of medicine.
Poverty is to be reduced through development of sustaining projects
that focus on economic-self-reliance.
 Supporting Improvements of Education Systems for the ADOA People by:

a) Supplying text books and educational materials

b) Introducing computer and electronic technologies
c) Helping establishes or expands libraries in existing unsophisticated or
public schools in the Armacheho Wereda
d) Improving and expanding existing school facilities
e) Hire qualified teachers with competitive salaries required by the
Governmental education system for remote rural areas
f) Sponsoring and assisting 25-50 underprivileged students in elementary
and secondary educations at a cost of 1,000 Birr (local currency) per
student per year
g) Sponsoring 10-20 high achiever students to continue higher education in
colleges and universities in Ethiopia at a cost of 2,000 Birr per student
per year
h) Assisting to obtain scholarship opportunities for outstanding students to
pursue graduate and postgraduate studies abroad
I) Providing moral and material support to professionals and intellectuals
or to enhance living conditions of ADOA at large.
j) Maintain Churches (Gedames) and provide necessary supplies

 Sponsoring Health Care Professionals traveling from Home and Abroad

 Collecting and Supplying Medicine from abroad
 Raising Necessary Funds in the United States and abroad
Monitoring Regularly the Implementation of the Funded Programs
 Assessing and Evaluating the Successes and Weaknesses of the Projects
Reporting Annually on the Progress

9. Governance and Management of ADOA:

A. Corporate Members
B. Board of Directors
 Chief Executive Officers
Sub-Committees
C. Auditors and
D. Nominating committees

 Management / Operations Goals and Objectives of ADOA:

Resource Development: To acquire stable, broad-based, financial and non-
financial
Resources to support the programs and growth envisioned by the organization.

Board of Directors: To develop and maintain an effective, and informed Board

Of Directors whose managerial governance and support roles help the
achievement of ADOA’s mission

Planning and Evaluation: To guarantee that we meet the needs of our

constituencies and that all programs provide the highest level of service to the
Armacheho people.
Public Relations/Marketing: To increase the visibility and community awareness
of ADOA and to make sure that ADOA is properly recognized for its
achievements and closely identified as a premier nonprofit organization providing
help to the Armacheho ( ) people.

Infrastructure: To increase the operational and management efficiency and

effectiveness of ADOA.

Networking and Collaboration: To maximize closer communication with other

agencies in order to maximize national and international communities’
involvement and ensure increased coordination and collaboration among
humanitarian, developmental, and educational service providers and
organizations doing related projects.

10. How Will ADOA Secure Funds for its

Operations?
Fund-Raising Methods:
 As a public charity organization, ADOA is interested in and committed to
exploring various methods and techniques of fundraising to implement and
sustain its charitable, educational and developmental programs as defined in
its mission statement. Some of the methods are the following:

• Pledges from ADOA natives in the United States, Canada and aboard
• Contributions from other supporting members
• Community fundraising activities
• Letter and Internet solicitations and appeals to the general public
• Grant seeking through proposals from foundations, corporations, church-
related Charities and different private contributors
Governmental grants: ADOA will seek substantial funding from such as the US-
AID for programs in the Armacheho land in Ethiopia and from other
governmental agencies for domestic programs in the United States.
ADOA will have two type of fundraising committees: one committee of volunteers
to coordinate fundraiser-activities of ADOA and supporters (such as dinners,
cultural nights, picnics, etc.) in various States and another committee of
volunteers to raise funds through proposals writings to potential funding agencies
and direct letter appeals to the general public.