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Activity Report: Bangladesh
HFW Bangladesh is running projects in 40 villages in 3 districts. Women, youth, government officers, and other NGOs are all giving strong support. “\1 from Japan will give 15 taka” is the catchphrase among the people of the community. Their projects are also widely covered by newspaper + TV in Bangladesh.
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Education for Boys!
Students who have received scholarships. The woman on the right is one of the teachers. |
In Bangladesh, quite a few children cannot go to school or drop out because of poverty. HFW-Bangladesh has implemented a scholarship program, the “Hunger Free Hiro Scholarship”. But in order to accept boys, we started the new scholarship program from January 2005.
Eleven scholars from 5 to 13 years old were selected in the first year of the program; including Rabiul Islam, whose family’s financial position was severe despite his farther working as a street vendor and his grandmother took him in to continue studying under her care; and Azizul Hakkim, whose parents are farmers but their earnings are so few that it is difficult to take care of a big family. Scholars were selected from among students from poor families, father-less families, and orphans, having met the condition of a strong desire to study. Four of them receive 50 Takas per month, another four receive 75 Takas, and another three receive 100 Takas.
As this scholarship program is operated by utilizing interest from long-term savings accounts to supply the scholarship payments, we can continually finance students in subsequent years. We have 10,000 Takas in savings, \154,240 ($1,200 =70,524 Takas) kindly provided by Nihon Kanji Noryoku Kentei Kyokai, plus funds that HFW-Bangladesh gathered within the country. The interest from these is the financial source of the scholarship. （2005.2)
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List of development projects: Bangladesh 2004-2007
（Project name／Target group, number）
■ Past Field Reports; Bangladesh （Project name／Target group, number）
- Power of Art in community development／December 2005
- Diary of an intern／9 August, 2005〜23 September 2005
- Field Report by HFW Head Office Staff／January 2004
- Diary of HFW Head Office Staff／August 2003
- Field Report from Intern／6 February 2003〜7 March 2003
- National Youth Cnference of YEH／August 2003
- Baseline Survey／2002
- Children's Education／August 2002〜
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