We here at Friendship believe that education in any form – primary, adolescence or adult - makes development sustainable and thus, is an integral part of our organization’s work focus. Our education programme does not only focus on eradicating illiteracy, but on ways to provide awareness, training, and income generation skills for all ages. Our varied education programme was first implemented in 2005. The programme is based on innovative and appropriate approaches to increase access to education as well to develop an infrastructure for proper education service delivery. Primary educational services (formal and non-formal), satellite schools, child to child peer education and vocational training for adolescents are some of the key components of Friendship’s interventions for spreading education in the char and riverbank areas.
Friendship introduced centres for primary, adolescent and adult education in the Jamuna chars and recently began education programmes in the southern districts of Bagerhat, Patuakhali and Borguna. As part of the project, we have till date established 79 learning centres with about 3500 students in two districts in the north and 3 districts in the southern part of Bangladesh.
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Primary EducationAlthough primary education is free and mandatory in Bangladesh, inaccessibility prevents many children from coming under mainstream education programmes. In the char and riverbank areas there are only a few primary schools that are fully functional. Most children have either . . . |
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Adult & Adolescent Functional Literacy ProgrammeSince many char dwellers still cannot read or write at a functional level, as part of our holistic approach to education, in 2007, we initiated our Functional Literacy Programme under which there is Adult Literacy Project with 10 learning centres in 10 chars of Gaibandha district. Classes are held. . . |
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Training ProgrammeTeachers of Friendship’s schools are selected from the chars where the schools are located. They are required to have a certain level of education in order to be capable of teaching primary level classes. Through its training programme, Friendship provides every teacher a month-long . . . |
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Accessing a better lifeFriendship’s Rural Social Education has been incorporated in a larger project titled Accessing a Better Life which will be carried out in collaboration with the Manusher Jonno Foundation. The aim of the project is to provide the char dwellers with rights-based awareness and improving their . . . |
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