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Ensuring Quality Education for Children from Rural Areas in Bangladesh

The situation

Going to school in Bangladesh can be a frightening experience. Teaching is by rote learning and children may be beaten for simply asking a question or making a mistake. Children from impoverished rural communities are usually first-generation learners and struggle to keep up.

Primary school drop-out rates are high and although preschool education is important for preparing children for primary school, just 23% of children receive any early childhood education.

With your support, Plan is working to help rural and semi-rural Bangladeshi children get a better start to life through access to quality education.

Your support can:

• Provide early learning spaces for young children, and tuition at out-of-school sessions and Learning Camps for older children
• Assist children starting primary school through transition camps
• Provide training activities for schools including positive discipline and school management
• Create supportive, inclusive, child-friendly schools and promote punishment-free environments by working with School Committees, principals and district and provincial education authorities
• Promote a child's fundamental right to education, highlighting the importance of education for both girls and boys
• Provide employment opportunities for women as preschool teachers and teachers' aides

Your donation makes a big difference

$11	can provide play materials for one playgroup of 3-4 year olds
$60	can provide one preschool with learning materials such as puzzles, books and puppets
$213	can provide learning materials such as books and teacher resource guides for one primary school

This project is also supported with funding from AusAID – the Australian Government Agency for International Development. If Plan receives more than is required for the current financial year, the donations in excess will be applied to subsequent years of this project or to other Priority Projects.

About Plan

Plan is one of the oldest and largest children's development organisations in the world. We work with communities in 50 developing countries and raise funds to support our work in 21 countries like Australia. By actively involving children, and working at a grassroots level with no religious or political agenda, we unite and inspire people around the globe to transform the world for children.