To commemorate friendship day, we present to you the meaning of friendship, as expressed by children in our schools. Samima Age: 10 Friendship Learning Centre Rohingya refugee camp, Cox’s Bazar Song of Friendship Mst. Jasmine Akther Grade: IV Friendship School, Sidhai...
Education
A Family Knit Close : A woman uses her new literacy to turn her life around
Despite the fact that Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in education, national data reports 41% of the population are still illiterate, with the bulk of these unfortunate people in the remote hard-to-reach areas. Musammat Banisa Begum, hailing from the very...
Hope Remains for Cobra : Friendship Secondary Schools Stop Early Marriage
Girls of secondary school age are particularly vulnerable to the practice of early marriage in rural Bangladesh. The situation is even worse in remote areas where majority don’t have the means to attend distant secondary schools. UNICEF reports that in Bangladesh,...