So, we Believe:
1. Education is a way to end poverty.
2. Education is the best way to end poverty.
3. Education is the only way to end poverty.
In particular, poverty has been linked strongly to education and employment. In essence, education is an important contribution to the social and economic development of a country.
Thus, we have taken some initiative to give education to the children of those poor peoples for their welfare.
OUR LIBRARY:
Though we have lack of Books collection, but here from our Library everyone can borrow books by fully free without any formal membership fees.
Our target and next step is to establish at least one Library in every Villages of Bangladesh.
As a part of our effort, we already have established 38 Libraries at various rural Villages all over the Country.
OUR COLLEGE:
Sign Board of our College:
Land for our College:
Before construction works started:
After construction works started:
Participation of Volunteers in College construction works:
We are going to establish a College in very rural flood affected Village called Arjuna. The village is situated beside the River Jamuna in Bhuapur Upazila of Tangail District. According to the Local Administrators- About 70% of Arjuna union is submerged by floodwaters every year. There is no another College established in this Union. So, Students need to go almost 10 Kilometers away to get higher study. But their families generally are not willing to send them as far, because they also have a lot of household works to do with their Parents.
So we felt necessity to establish a College here in Arjuna union. We already have collected some fund from villagers and some conscious figures and started our works to establish the College with help of some Volunteers (Majority are high school Students), but those amount is not enough to establish a quality College.
Sign Board of our College:
Land for our College:
Before construction works started:
After construction works started:
Participation of Volunteers in College construction works:
Construction works in Progress: 
Present situation: 
OUR STEPS WHEN DISASTERS:
Bangladesh is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to natural hazards and disasters. It's geographical location makes it subject to annual monsoon floods, cyclones droughts, and there are also a number of other risks the country has to cope with.
As it is considered to be the country most affected by climate change, the risk for major hydro-meteorological disasters is also increasing. Widespread poverty and an extremely high population density add to the country’s vulnerability to disaster.
Thus, we have been trying our best to help the affected Peoples when any disaster hits them.
We generally provide them foods, clothes and also try to help them to rebuild their Homes.
BUILDING PASSENGER TERMINAL:
We also built a Passenger Terminal at Village Arjuna of Bhuapur Upazila beside the main Road. Because we observed that, the Passengers be standing long times in even hot & cold environment (the Women & Children also) for Bus to go their destinations, even sometimes they miss the desired Bus for already over loaded and be standing for next Bus.
So, we felt necessity to build a Passenger Terminal here and just started works with some volunteers (majority are high School Students) and built that.
Our next plan is to build Terminals at other rural areas also where Peoples have been suffering as same, but government has no initiative.
CULTURAL PROGRAMS ARRANGED BY US:
Bangladesh is a land of festivity. Culture refers to the way of life of the people of Bangladesh . The land, the rivers, and the lives of the Bengali people formed a rich heritage with marked differences from other Countries.
RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS: Peoples of various religions celebrate their holly festivals here without fear.
Majority Peoples of our Country is Muslims (around 90%), they celebrate:
Eid-ul-Fitr (The biggest Muslim festival observed throughout the world. This is held on the day following the Ramadan),
Eid-ul-Azha (Second biggest festival of the Muslims. It is held marking the Hajj in Mecca on the 10 th Zilhaj, the lunar month),
Eid-e-Miladunnabi (The birth and death day of Prophet Muhammad (SM:). The day on 12th Rabiul Awal of Lunar Month),
Muharram (On 10th Muharram in memory of the tragic martyrdom of Imam Hussain (RA:) on this day at Karbala in Iraq.) etc.
The 2nd majority peoples of Bangladesh are Hindus, they observe:
Durga Puja (the biggest festival of the Hindu community continues for ten days), and also Kali Puja & Saraswati Puja among others.
The 3rd majority Peoples of Bangladesh are the Buddhists, they observe:
Buddho Purnima (is the biggest festival for Bengali Buddhists),
The 4th majority peoples of Bangladesh are Christians, they observe:
Christmas (popularly called "Bara Din (the Big Day)", is celebrated by the Christians) and
People from several tribal communities also have their respective festival as well.
NATIONAL FESTIVALS: Various National festivals are also observed by whole Nations throughout the Country together, those are:
Pahela Baishakh (The advent of Bengali New Year),
Victory Day (December 16 is a day of Victory of Bangladesh),
Independence Day (March 26 is the day of Independence of Bangladesh),
Independence Day (March 26 is the day of Independence of Bangladesh),
National Mourning Day and World Mother Language Day (on 21 February),
Rabindra Jayanti (Birth anniversary of the Noble laureate Rabindranath Tagore on 25 th Baishakh on May) and
Nazrul Jayanti (Birth anniversary of the National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam on 11th Jaystha on May) We try to arrange cultural programs in those various festive days for the recreation of the rural peoples and encourage them to get education.
OTHER PROGRAMS ARRANGED BY US:
We arrange various meetings and dialogues with conscious Peoples for their valuable suggestions on us for conducting our activities in a proper way, we also arrange sports competitions, Math & others intelligence competitions, book fair and also various Mobile education programs.
If you want, you may also join us to make our tasks & hopes accomplished. So, give your hands with our works:
The population in Bangladesh is predominantly rural, with almost 80 percent of the population living in rural areas. Many people live in remote areas that lack services such as education, health clinics, and adequate roads.
An estimated 36 percent of the population in rural areas lives below the poverty line. They suffer from persistent food insecurity, own no land and assets, are often uneducated, and may also suffer serious illnesses or disabilities. For their livelihood they work hard from morning to evening. Even Children are also responsible to collect food for their family from various sources.
This natural disasters creates a vicious cycle for the poor of Bangladesh. Because the poor may not be able to afford safer housing, they have to live near the river which raises their risk of flooding. This would result in greater damage suffered from the floods, driving the poor into selling assets and pushing them further into poverty. They would be further deprived of sufficient resources needed to prevent extensive damage from flooding, resulting in even more flood damage and poverty. It then becomes even harder to escape this cycle. Even those farmers slightly above the poverty line are but just one bad flood away from the ranks of the poor.
In order to rebuild their homes, they often have to resort to moneylenders, and that causes them to fall deeper into poverty. Of these, households engaged in farming and fishing suffer a greater loss relative to income. These Bangladeshis have limited access to health care, healthy Sanitation system and also to clean drinking water causes of poverty.
WHY WE FELT NECESSITY FOR OUR WORKS?
Bandesh is one of the world's most density populated countries with 160 million People, 26 percent of whom live below the national poverty line of US $2 per day. In addition, child malnutrition rate rates of 48 percent, in condition that is tied to the low social status of women in Bangladeshi society.
There are many problems in economy in bangladesh like, poor infrastructure, political instability and insufficient power supplies etc. The rural area Peoples of Bangladesh with lower economic class completely bear a different picture. They lag behind in all aspects of their needs as compared to Peoples of middle and higher classes. They are deprived of education opportunity because of their poverty, social barriers and indifferent attitude of the authorities towards them.
As a result, in one way or other, they are deprived of economic opportunities too. They live in rural areas with their three or more children together. Some of them, with a large number of members live in a joint family.
The population in Bangladesh is predominantly rural, with almost 80 percent of the population living in rural areas. Many people live in remote areas that lack services such as education, health clinics, and adequate roads.
An estimated 36 percent of the population in rural areas lives below the poverty line. They suffer from persistent food insecurity, own no land and assets, are often uneducated, and may also suffer serious illnesses or disabilities. For their livelihood they work hard from morning to evening. Even Children are also responsible to collect food for their family from various sources.
They mostly live on agriculture. They grow vegetable, flower plants, make toys, baskets and breed poultry/cattle for their additional income. They majority having no land, usually work out of upper class peoples' houses, brick fields, nursery and agricultural fields in daily basis and cultivate others' land in partnership basis.
Another 29 percent of the rural population is considered moderately poor. Though they may own a small plot of land and some livestock and generally have enough to eat, but their diets lack nutritional value. As a result of health problems or natural disasters, they are at risk of sliding deeper into poverty.
Another main causes of rural poverty is due the country’s geographical and demographic characteristics. A large proportion of the country is low-lying, and thus is at a high risk to flooding. Many of the rural poor live in areas that are prone to extreme annual flooding which cause huge damage to their crops, homes and livelihoods. About 16% of household income per year is lost due to flooding, with roughly 89% of the loss in property and assets.
This natural disasters creates a vicious cycle for the poor of Bangladesh. Because the poor may not be able to afford safer housing, they have to live near the river which raises their risk of flooding. This would result in greater damage suffered from the floods, driving the poor into selling assets and pushing them further into poverty. They would be further deprived of sufficient resources needed to prevent extensive damage from flooding, resulting in even more flood damage and poverty. It then becomes even harder to escape this cycle. Even those farmers slightly above the poverty line are but just one bad flood away from the ranks of the poor.
In addition, these natural disasters also cause outbreaks of cholera and other waterborne diseases such as dengue and malaria which will affect them physically and lower their productivity levels. Another cause of rural poverty is due to the fast growing population rate. It places huge pressure on the environment, causing problems such as erosion and flooding, which in turn leads to low agricultural productivity. Of those poor Peoples, the life of illiterate women in workplace is somewhat harder. They normally work in garments factories in very below wages rate and many of them work in residence as maid servant.
There is a dire need to educate the rural women. But in fact, these women are not familiar with education. They are also not aware about their social rights and obligations. Neither they are concerned about their own living standard.
But they are surprisingly conscious about the health and education of their children. But for poverty matters their dreams always remain helpless. Because it affects many factors of growth – education, population growth rates, health, nutrition and living standard.
So, through proper support, advice and counseling they can be motivated and encouraged towards education. And during the learning period, some incentive, such as food, cloth, toy, or free health services for their children may be very effective to retain them in learning process. Forming of groups, selection of classroom, appointment of teacher, class time, duration of course and the proper follow up system are necessary.
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