Project Report
| Mar 10, 2010
Scholarship Presentation Ceremony: Bangladesh
By Amano Tetsuya | Director, IRFF-Bangladesh
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Scholarship Recipients
On February 20, 2010 IRFF-Bangladesh held its scholarship presentation ceremony for the students of the Jaigeer and Utter Bakchar Primary Schools who were receiving scholarships from Supporting Success. The event was held at the Jaigeer Peace Center of the Jaigeer School and over two hundred students, guests, government officials and local residents attended the ceremony. The chief guest was the renowned lawyer and social worker, Advocate Aftab Hossain, and the Master of Ceremonies was the Assistant Head Teacher Shamsul Huq. During the ceremony, one student representative of the scholarship recipients, one guardian, and teachers of each school gave a speech expressing their gratitude for the scholarships and the impact they are having on the local children.
This is the third year that IRFF has provided scholarships to children from the villages of Jaigeer and Utter Bakchar, allowing them to continue their studies into high school. In total, thirty local children are now having all of their expenses for school covered and are going to have the opportunity to finish high school, a rare thing in the rural areas of Bangladesh. Many of these students would not be able to attend school beyond the fifth grade without the support of IRFF’s program and their lives have been changed as a result. Thank you to all of you who donated so generously to Supporting Success for making this a reality for them.
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Children outside the Jaigeer Primary School
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Nov 10, 2009
News about Supporting Success
By Paul Byrne | Assistant Executive Director
Dear Friends and Supporters,
As you know, the Supporting Success Scholarship Fund has been providing scholarships to primary school students in Zambia whose families could not afford the cost of a public education, which was not free. We are now happy to announce that the national government of Zambia has recently decided to provide a free education to all students through the seventh grade. Supporting Success is excited about the potential to expand educational opportunities to many more children in Zambia, but we will monitor the situation to determine the effectiveness of the government's efforts. We will also continue to sponsor those students that are entering the 8th grade with scholarships, and will continue to provide scholarships to our current students when they reach that grade.
Because of the decreased need for our support in Zambia, we are now shifting our fundraising focus to the students that we support in Bangladesh, where we will be providing scholarships to 30 students this year. Our page on GlobalGiving.com now reflects that change.
We look forward to your continued generosity as we continue our efforts to expand access to education in developing countries. Supporting Success will be participating in GlobalGiving's Give More - Get More Challenge from now until December 1st, where each donation will be matched by up to 50%. We also have the chance to win up to $5,000 in bonus prizes. Thank you again for your support, and please donate now!
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Oct 13, 2009
Update on Supporting Success
By Paul Byrne | Assistant International Executive Director
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the new 5th grade classroom
Dear Friends,
As we head into the final quarter of 2009, I can’t help feeling that it has been a very good year for the Supporting Success Scholarship Fund and the children that we sponsor, and I hope that it will only get better. In the past nine months, we have not only sponsored 25 students in Zambia and 20 in Bangladesh (our largest classes ever), but we also built a 5th grade classroom at the Mackenzie Community School in Zambia, which will allow us to keep more students there in school longer. We are now also exploring possibilities to build a school in Bangladesh in the coming months, a project that we are very excited about.
Over the course of this pat school year, our students that you are supporting in Zambia have all been working hard at the Dzikomo Government School. They have been studying diligently and are currently on track to pass their grades at the end of the school year in December. The 5th grade classroom that we built at the Mackenzie Community School with a grant from the Posterus Foundation (www.posterus.org) is complete and is awaiting final approval from the government to allow the new class of 5th graders to start next year. In the meantime, the classroom is being used by the school for its art classes, for small group sessions for students who have fallen behind, and as an exam room. The classroom has been furnished by two volunteers from Switzerland who built benches and tables and who also brought books for the library. IRFF volunteers at the United Nations International School in New York also collected books and school supplies for the students over this past year and have just recently shipped them to Zambia.
Here at Supporting Success, we are now gearing up for our end-of-year fundraiser and would deeply appreciate your continued support for the children whose lives you have touched so profoundly. While we anticipate that the Mackenzie Community School will be able to hold a 5th grade class next year and will therefore not require scholarships for a new class, the students that we sponsored in past years still need your support. We realize that this has been a difficult year for many of us, but without your help these students would not be attending school right now and your continued generosity is critical to allowing them to continue their education for another year.
Please look for Supporting Success in GlobalGiving’s upcoming “Give More - Get More Challenge”, where your donations will be matched by up to 50% beginning November 10th, or donate now to help Supporting Success earn prize money in Facebook’s “America’s Giving Challenge” at http://apps.facebook.com/causes/44294/7071163?m=611088da.
Thank you again for your generosity and support.
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students in the new classroom
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