GENKIプログラム対象校の子どもたちの将来の夢
【2019年12月の活動報告】
Approximately 540,000 meals (progress rate: 25.7%) were distributed by December against Euglena cookie distribution target of 2.1 million meals for this term (October 2019 to September 2020).
1. Future dreams of children at GENKI program target schools
Do you know the enrollment rate in middle school in Bangladesh? In Japan, the enrollment rate in junior high school, which is compulsory education, is 99% or more, which is the highest level in the world. On the other hand, in Bangladesh, compulsory education is required up to elementary school, and the enrollment rate in junior high school is about 74%, and about 1 in 4 people have not yet received education above junior high school. Compulsory education up to elementary school was established by law in 1990, and along with this, the literacy rate of the younger generation (15 to 24 years old) increased from 45% (1990) to over 90% (2016). Dramatically improved (* UNESCO statistical data). The rate of enrollment in higher education such as universities and junior colleges has doubled from about 10% to about 20% in the last 10 years, and it can be said that the chances of children receiving education are steadily increasing.
Club Ten BDP Elementary School, which is attended by 80 children at GENKI program target schools, has only one classroom and no schoolyard or toilet. However, 4th grade Monilla, who attends this school, has a dream of becoming a doctor and using the income earned by helping others to establish a well-equipped school for children like herself. I will. The rate of enrollment in higher education is currently around 20%, but it will be even better 10 years after Monilla grows up. We will continue and expand the GENKI program so that they can get good nutrition every day and devote themselves to their daily studies.
Photo-1: Many children in a classroom with only one
Photo-2: Monilla who wants to build a school in the future
2. Introduction of Raihan who goes to school while helping his father's small store
What did you do when you were in elementary school when it came to helping out at home? This month, I would like to introduce Mr. Raihan (10 years old) who is studying hard while helping his father's shop. Raihan is a 4th grade student at City Coloni BDP Elementary School in Dhaka, a school subject to the GENKI program. Born as the youngest of six siblings, two older sisters and three older brothers are already married and living separately, so now they are living with a 63-year-old dad and mom. Raihan is willing to help a small store to help his aging father.
Raihan leaves school after taking classes from 9 am to 11 am, stands at the store from 11:30 pm to 1 pm, and handles everything from customer service to accounting by himself. The store is a small space of about 1 tsubo, but it handles dozens of products, from daily necessities such as subdivided soaps and detergents to selling rice by weight and PET bottled beverages. After the store number is over, it's my daily routine to go home and do my school homework and self-study, and when it's almost evening, I join my friends and play my favorite cricket. Raihan told me that he likes studying as much as playing with his friends.
Raihan's dream is to become a police officer, saying that he wants to continue to help his parents in place of his older brother and sister who live apart. "I want to be a police officer who is respected as a model for others, and I want to do my best to be a person who will follow me," he said. The father, who was listening to it sideways, happily encouraged Raihan, saying, "Do your best to study and make your dreams come true."
Photo-3: Mr. Raihan, who sells rice by weight alone
Photo-4: Report the account in the store number to the father
Photo-5: I know a customer in the neighborhood
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Euglena Co., Ltd.
Overseas Business Development Department / Bangladesh Office