Room to Read, an organisation working on literacy and gender equality in education, received a donation worth Tk 15 lakh from Rehana Siddiqi (RS) Fund, a local charity organisation, yesterday.
RS Fund Chairman Rehana Siddiqi handed over the check to Zaki Hasan, country director of Room to Read, at a city restaurant.
Dr Muhammad Ibrahim, chair of Federation of NGOs in Bangladesh, was present on the occasion as the chief guest while Dr Badiul Alam Majumder, country director of Hunger Project-Bangladesh, Farida Akhter, executive director of Nari Gronthho Probortona and Rehana Siddiqi spoke at the programme.
The secondary level students are getting tutorial support for mathematics and English as well as life skill support from Room to Read while the primary level students are learning to read properly at their mother tongue through programmes like language game, school library and reading festival, Zaki Hasan said at the programme.
Room to Read is currently covering 275 government primary and registered schools in Sirajganj and Brahmanbaria to develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among the school children.
At the same time, it is providing need-based support to a total of 544 secondary level girl students of different char areas of Sirajganj so that they can go for higher education.
Source : The Daily Star
