Education for Slum Kids: A Swapnadhara and Hridoya Bangladesh Joint Venture

Project Overview

Swapnadhara is a Dhaka-based nonprofit organization, which promotes education among slum kids. It collects students from the nearby slums, teach them basic education, and vocational training. The parents of these kids are poor and illiterate. Parents are reluctant to send their kids to school, as they think that kids can bring some money for the family, if kids work outside rather than wasting time in schools. Swapnadhara aims to help these kids to get some basic education and motivate them go to school regularly to understand the value of education in improving their lives. The long term goal is to provide them education up to varsity-level so that these kids become self-reliant and help their families to come out of poverty.

Swapnadhara provide food as an incentive, so that kids are interested to attend school regularly. In addition, they provide some basic vocational training to the kids, so that kids can help their parents to income some money. This also motivates parents to send their kids to school. Right now, Swapnadhara teaches kids how to make grocery packaging items and handicrafts.

Swapnadhara has a big dream, but is struggling for financial support to accomplish her dream. Hridoya Bangladesh has partnered with Swapnadhara to materialize this dream. Let us all come forward to make Swapnadhara’s effort successful.

Present Status

Currently Swapnadhara has 74 students, three teachers, and two class-rooms. Due to shortage of money, it provides food only once a week. It bears operating expenses from the donations of the executive committee members and some kind-hearted people. It needs monthly 12,500/= Taka (167 US Dollars) to meet its operating costs.

Swapnadhara needs more teachers and class-rooms as number of students are increasing day by day. In addition, it needs to provide food daily to stop the drop-out of the students. However, as there is no stable source of income or donations, it is very hard for Swapnadhara to continue its current operations.

Class Description:

Class	Students	Class Time
Small Group	38	8 AM - 10 AM
Big Group	14	10 AM - 12 PM
One	12	12 PM - 3 PM
Two	2	12 PM - 3 PM
Three	6	12 PM - 3 PM
Four	2	12 PM - 3 PM

School Location:
Sohag Swapnadhara Patshala-Education
Address: West Duaripara, Pallabi, Mirpur,
Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh.
Established: 7th July 2006, Registered: 7th September 2008

School Contact:

Swapnadhara Pathshala: swapnadhara_bd@yahoo.com
Ahsan Kabeer : ahsan_kabeer@yahoo.com

Executive Committee:

	Name	Designation
1	Shagorika Das	President
2	Md.Aslam Parvez	Vice-President
3	Mosabbir Ahmed	Treasurer
4	Md. Obaidur Rahman	Asst. General Secratary
5	Md. Asraful Alam	Member
6	Masum Sazzad	Member
7	Md. Tariqul Islam	Member
8	Fatematuz Johora (Jhuma)	Member

Operating Cost (Approximate) Break-up:

	Cost	Description	Monthly (Taka)	Yearly (Taka)
1	House Rent	3 x 1,200	3,600	43,200
2	Teachers’ Salary	3 x 1,500	4,500	54,000
3	Tiffin (Once a week)	For 70 Students and 5 Taka per meal	1,400	16,800
4	Office Stationery	Books, pencils, pens, notebook, etc.	1,500	18,000
5	Commute Cost	To Communicate for many kinds of purposes	1000	12,000
6	Gift	Encouragement for the serious students	500	6,000
Total Amount (Taka)			12,500	1,50,000
US Dollar (One dollar = 75 Taka)			167	2,000

How Can You Contribute

Hridoya Bangladesh’s goal is to help Swapndhara by providing financial support so that Swapndhara can continue its great work. We want to raise yearly 2000 US Dollars to meet the operating expenses of Swapndhara. We need your generous donation to reach this goal. You can contribute any amount for this project. We will save your donations in a common fund and periodically distribute it to Swapndhara. In particular, you can sponsors for any of the following specific cost:

1.   Monthly House Rent (Taka 3600/= or US 50 Dollars)
2.   Monthly Teachers’ Salary (Taka 4500/= or US 60 Dollars)
3.   Monthly Tiffin Cost (Taka 1500/= or US 20 Dollars)
4.   Monthly Office Stationery Cost (Taka 1000/= or US 15 Dollars)
5.   Monthly Commute Cost (Taka 1000/= or US 15 Dollars)
6.   Monthly Gift Cost (Taka 500/= or US 10 Dollars)

Please send your contribution via PayPal

Please mention "Swapnadhara" on PayPal Donation Item Description.

OR write a Check to:
Hridoya Bangladesh, 112 Sebastians Run, Austin, TX 78738, USA.

Note: Hridoya Bangladesh has received tax-exempt status. Therefore, you can file for tax benefit from the next fiscal year.

For Further Information

Please send email to Shagorika Das or Ahsan Kabeer.
You can also send email to info@hridoyabangladesh.org.

If you have a suggestion on how we should run our initiatives, we are very interested to hear that. Your Comments.

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