About Otto:
Orondaam Otto is committed to providing education and development opportunities for children and youths from underserved demographics. His focus includes improving education outcomes and human capital development policies, promoting reform based leadership and eliminating socio-economic inequalities to achieve sustainable growth within the public and private sectors.
He has been a community organiser, development consultant and a social entrepreneur for over 15 years, working with multilateral organisations across various sectors to design, implement and scale social impact programs. In 2020 he was named amongst 100 Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) in Support of the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent.
In 2012, he founded Slum2School Africa to provide educational scholarships for out-of-school children and create solutions to the poor state of education across Nigeria/Africa.
Slum2School Africa, is one of Africa’s leading volunteer-driven developmental organizations today and over the past 10 years, Orondaam has worked with over 15,110 volunteers across 45 countries to provide educational scholarships and dozens of development support to over 650,400 children and youths from hundreds of communities across Nigeria. He has led his team in building early childhood development centers, adopting public schools, building e-libraries, health centers, as well as technology and Innovation labs serving thousands of children. In 2020 during the Covid pandemic he led his team to build the first virtual learning classroom in Africa, a model currently replicated across schools.
Otto's vision is to see that every child and youth, irrespective of their color, origin, gender, educational level and physical or mental ability is given an equal opportunity to access the best forms of education and developmental opportunities, to enable them maximize their potential and contribute positively to the growth of the global community.
