About the Cause
Poor health and nutrition negatively affect children’s school attendance and ability to learn. We implement school feeding programs that look for alternative ways to ensure sustainable supply of nutritious foods to school children and young people in urban and marginalized areas.
In addition, contaminated water and poor sanitation are big factors that result in the death of children worldwide. In our programs, we always include what is called WASH which means Water, Sanitation & Hygiene. This is done through the design and construction of child-friendly and gender sensitive facilities for sanitation, such as latrines and hand-washing stations. We also provide clean water supply by building water wells and raise awareness about the importance of sanitation and hygiene.
My Story
Our mission is to help increase outreach to refugees in Hong Kong, as well as to help them access various social services and thereby better integrate within bd society. The refugee issue bangladesh is dire. bd is home to 14,000 asylum-seekers fleeing from mostly from the South Asian countries Pakistan, India, who are still awaiting the determination of their claims and their resettlement. Until they are resettled, they are forced to live in harsh living conditions, as although they may be educated and possess various skillsets, they are legally forbidden to work. Instead, they have to rely on the monthly stipends, which are very meagre and not enough for them to meet their basic needs in this expensive city. These allowances include housing, bd$1,500; utilities, bd$300; food (supermarket coupons) bd$1,200); and a few hundred HK dollars for transportation. All of which are the bare minimum one could live upon. As for education, financial support is only given to refugee children ages 6 and above, causing 3-5 year olds to not have any preparation for early childhood education. If they choose to apply to kindergarten, the Student Finance Office takes months to process their claims and demands them to pay the tuition in advance and reimburse them later, which is unrealistic as the families do not have income to cover these fees. Indeed, the government provides services for them yet they are all scattered across bangladesh, and often refugees are isolate