By Md Masum Billah Khan | Country Representative (Bangladesh)
Bangladesh
Progress Report of "Zakat Can Empower Poor Parents in Bangladesh" Project of GlobalGiving
Period: July-September,2024
Dear Friends,
Dakbhanga Bangladesh (DBD) has been operating two primary schools in the remote Ramu sub-district of Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, since 1998 as part of a primary education project for underprivileged children, thanks to generous contributors like you. The project students receive ECD to Grade V education at schools and with limited support for their secondary and postsecondary education.
The Zakat initiative has been supporting impoverished and needy school-age children within the catchment area of the Dakbahanga Education Project. These initiatives depend on the collection of Zakat from potential donors, including the staff of Dakbhanga Bangladesh and friends from home and abroad. The aim of the project is to enhance the living conditions of low-income families whose children are enrolled in our project schools. They are studying with our regular students of both schools, but we support them from our Zakat fund for school dress, books, and other materials, and sometimes with cash support to ease their living.
We are supporting a few families now with this Zakat fund selected from our 4 school community. We are also thinking of capacitizing the families through kitchen gardening, goat rearing, and home-based poltry farming to increase their family income. We are dedicated to assisting low-income families so that their children can complete primary school and continue their education until they reach eighteen. However, Dakbhanga lacks resources, so to sustain our activities, parents urgently require help from the global humanitarian community and some support from local sources. Operating this initiative is challenging without the generous backing of friends from home and overseas.
To sustain its initiatives, Dakbhanga Bangladesh (DBD) needs to continue Zakat support to the chosen community of two primary schools and two feeder schools that provided ECD to the children. To help deserving parents reach their goal of financing their children's education to a certain secured level, a minimum 18-year-old age limit is set, allowing them to forge a brighter future with a minimum standard of livelihood prospects. We are welcoming more contributors to donate Zakat funds to continue the noble initiatives for a few more years.
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