The project will provide educational support to 150 underprivileged indigenous children of forest dependent communities, who hail from the poorest sections of society, in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh. Through the project, Indigenous children, aged of 5 to16, will get quality education and other facility.
The forest dependent communities and children, live in the remote rural areas, and are deprived from quality education in their childhood due to extreme poverty and lack of basic literacy of their parents. According to LGED, Bandarban district literacy rate, which makes up to 28.07%, is much lower than national average (45.3%). Average per capita income is far below the national average of $374. Economic activity rate is also below than national average which indicates a higher underemployment
The goal of this project is to provide best education facilities to the ethnic children of forest dependent communities to be admitted in nearest school for continuing proper education. For this purpose, community teacher is to be provided to take care of their education problem. Besides, the project will also focus on creation of green environment and livelihood development activities to reduce dependency on forest resources.
The education program keeps the 150 forest dependent children in school and ensures continued education for their better future so that they can get involved in mainstream development to break the poverty cycle. Our goal is to start educating the children of poorest section of the society, building up their confidence for developing a better society.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
