Comments from Signe Aanby Master in Biology, University of Life Science (UMB) Teacher at Linderud secondary school, Norway In February 2013, me and a student colleague were fortunate to visit the EDS (Education for Deprived Students), Mirerdanga , Fulbariget in the city of Khulna. We were invited to come to Bangladesh to do part of our internship in studies in pedagogy. In Bangladesh we learned that EDS gives children the chance to get an education and focus on developing both socially, ethical and educational skills. EDS vision is to “assist poor families to improve their livelihood through education and development of their children and to influence the children to be responsible and help others” In EDS, we found a very friendly environment; with children working together to develop good learning skills and strong friendship with a motivation to get an education. In this environment the children felt appreciated, and are respected as individuals. In EDS they practice the meaning of; “by helping others, you are helping yourself” and “by teaching others, you learn more yourself”. We were highly impressed by the way EDS organised the teaching of all 400 children involved in the programme. The students meet at EDS early in the morning before they go to ordinary school and after school time they even meet again at EDS. The children are real hard working and committed to get a good education. We were especially impressed by the teachers who were using their free time to teach children at EDS. The teachers are from the age of 14 and have good teaching skills and are qualified to the field they are teaching. They are young people who committed themselves to teach deprived students so the children in the local community could manage to get through the school curriculum. We saw that they were teaching the same curricula as in the ordinary school so the children could more easily pass all the difficult tests in the education system in Bangladesh. And all these young people did it for free, on voluntary basis. We come from a country which value the principle of voluntarism and such work warms our hearts. We have never seen such unselfish act amongst young people, and know for sure that Norwegian students at the same age wouldn’t do anything without gaining, either economically or socially. To meet such highly committed teachers were an inspiration for us. Md Alamin are the organizer of EDS and the main person in getting the programme to succeed on every day basis. It is really hard work, his schedule is tight and responsibilities are many. He is both teaching and care for all the EDS children. EDS puts children first and leave no child out of the community. Alamin gives a helping hand to everyone in need. If someone, either EDS teacher, parent or child in the local community meet any problem, Alamin is helping with all his skills and capacity. Alamin dedicates his time and effort to improve the conditions within the local community. He shows strong skills of leadership. His capacity of listening, involving and engaging children in different activities gives him high qualification as a leader. Alamin is particularly persistent and dedicated to the goals of EDS and local community. He seeks to improve and strengthen the welfare of the organization at all levels. Alamin told me that he wants to do work with deprived children for the rest of his life; helping them to build self-esteem so they can better meet different challenges in life. He says that every child and youth deserve the chance to live a secure and worthy life.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:22:58 +0000
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