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What's happening in 2008:



29th April - The New Nation - Bangladesh
Allocation for Adivasi's in next budget likely
This year the theme of the week is "Quality Education for All: End Exclusion Now." Prof Mesbah Kamal presided over the roundtable. ...

The massive number of people mobilized by CAMPE for the World’s Biggest Lesson has necessitated opening of  a Central Control Office which will operate 24 hours on 23 April 2008 to get instant information on the World’s Biggest Lesson from every part of the country. Over three million people have so far been mobilized to be part of the World’s Biggest Lesson.

First Planning Meeting on GCE’s Global Action Week (21-27 April) 2008 held

As part of GCE’s worldwide activities underlining the issue of Education for All, CAMPE organized the 1st Planning Meeting on observing Global Action Week (GAW)-2008 in Bangladesh, at Dhaka on Tuesday, 16 January 2008 at 3:00 pm. The meeting was presided over by Mr. Muhammad Azizul Haque, Director-in-Charge, CAMPE. About 180 persons representing CAMPE partner NGOs, civil society groups, government departments, teachers’ association, women and children focused organizations, organizations working with disability issues, members of MDG journalist forums and research organizations attended the meeting.

Mr. Sayed-Ul-Alam Kazal read out some excerpts from GCE’s Planning Pack for observance of GAW 2008. He mentioned some possible activities to observe GAW 2008 in Bangladesh and also asked the participants to undertake some innovative programs to highlight the theme ‘Quality Education to End Exclusion’. Mr. Kazal also informed that as an important activity of the worldwide observance of GAW 2008 a World’s Biggest Lesson will be held on 23 April 2008 at 10:00 am, Bangladesh time where politicians, policy makers and representatives from the civil society groups will be present. And it will be an important task for the GAW partners to count the number of the participating people and send to GCE through fax and e-mail. If successfully done, this can have room in the Guinness Book of Records as a New World Record, he added.

Apart from the World’s Biggest Lesson, the following activities can be carried out in Bangladesh as the GAW partners did in the previous years: discussion session on the GAW 2008 theme, courtyard meeting, cultural programs, street play, art competition, hand-writing competition, essay competition, rally, human chain and some other motivational/awareness raising innovative programs and/or campaign that partners are capable to do.

Finalization of GAW 2008 theme in Bangla

Mr. Sayed-Ul-Alam Kazal on behalf of the Secretariat proposed some themes in Bangla
well-fitting to the global theme of this year—‘Quality Education to End Exclusion’. The participants reviewed the themes and finally set the Bangla theme Ôev` cov wbim‡b gvbm¤§Z wk¶vÕ (Bad Pora Niroshone Man Shommoto Shikkha).

Preliminary outline of the activities to mark GAW 2008

Some of the GAW partners informed that including the World’s Biggest Lesson they would be interested to undertake the following other activities to mark the action week in Bangladesh for 2008:
  1. A civil society representative from Rajshahi told that they would hold an assembly of the girl students at a local primary school to put importance on retaining enrolment rate that the school achieved in the previous year;
  2. TSP (Pabna), a local NGO, will arrange a rally and discussion session with adibasi children and guardians;
  3. Karok (Pabna), a local NGO, wants to arrange art competition, rally, discussion session and press conference for the disadvantaged children;
  4. Polli Sahitya Sangstha (Panchgarh), a local NGO, will hold a meeting with local people to stop hazardous child labours. Kobi gan and jari gan (indigenous form of performance) will also be arranged.
  5. CARE, an international organization, will extend education facilities to the excluded children in 30 areas in the country and undertake some supplementary programs to prevent dropping out;
  6. IDEA (Sylhet), a local NGO, will hold a discussion meeting with the Deputy Commissioner and some other programs for the street children in Sunamganj;
  7. Udayan Shabalombi Sangstha (Gaibandha), a local NGO, will take measures for enrolment of the excluded children;
  8. MUF (Faridpur), a local NGO, wants to organize rally with disabled children and stage street plays in the action week;
  9. ISOL (Jamalpur), a local NGO, proposed that a proposition should be placed to the government to take measures for preventing hazardous child labours;
  10. VPKA (Rajbari), a local NGO, proposed that some activities could be carried out at the Union and Upozila level jointly by a group of organizations;
  11. Protibandhi Kalyan Samiti, a local NGO working with the disabled, proposed to hold programs for the children in the chitmahal areas.
Date of Next Planning Meeting: 27 February 2008 at Dhaka

Download the details of the highlights on GAW 2008 in Bangladesh here With the attachment (GAW 2008 Highlights) and also include "Get the List of particpating organisations here with the accompanying attachment.


Media Coverage:

27th April - The Daily Star – Bangladesh
The luckiest 3 among the Mro community

22nd April - the Daily Star - Bangladesh
New textbooks for all pry students from next year

22nd April - The New Nation - Bangladesh
New books for all pry students from next year


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What happened in 2007?

An amazing turn out for activities in Bangladesh resulted in 1.2 million people uniting with the Education for All Movement, who called for fresh commitments to establish everybody’s Right to Education. The main activities included a human chain, rally, discussion forums, roundtables, courtyard meetings, sports and art competitions as well as essay writing competitions.




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