Founded
on 9 March 1996
in honour of Dr. Hermann
Gmeiner, the visionary founder of SOS Children’s Village
International, SOS Hermann Gmeiner College Bogura is located in Baropur, 5 km north of
the town centre. It was established to provide quality education to orphaned and
disadvantaged children from SOS Children’s Village Bogura, alongside local day
scholars.
Operating
under the Board of
Intermediate and Secondary Education, Rajshahi and managed by SOS Bangladesh, the
institution follows the motto:
“Honesty is education,
education is peace and peace is progress.”
It upholds values of merit,
discipline, and integrity, focusing on academic excellence, moral development,
and extracurricular engagement.
The
college first presented SSC candidates in 2000 and HSC candidates in 2004, gaining official
recognition at the Higher Secondary level in December 1999 (EIIN: 132281). It offers
education from Prep-1 to
Class XII in the Bengali medium, with streams in Science.
Facilities include modern classrooms, science laboratories, library, computer lab, playground, and basketball court, set in a green and welcoming campus.