Free-of-cost School for Underprivileged Children

JAAGO Starts 2018 with New Promises

This year 2018, JAAGO Foundation starts its journey with same promises of eradicating poverty through providing quality education to those who cannot afford.  The journey hasn’t been easy when it started in slum of Rayerbazar with only 17 children, a white board and a mat. Since then, JAAGO is shaping and constructing dreams of deprived children’s and injecting new hope for a better life to them & families. Starting from a very few students, currently we have 3000 students in all 13 Schools across Bangladesh.

Dream is the word which has different meanings to different people. To our young stars of JAAGO, dream is something which pushes them to chase, work hard and engage into things what they want to achieve in life.

Each year new enrolled students of JAAGO fears to have dreams because of their extreme background of poverty. However, once they are settled after few days, JAAGO nurture these young stars in a way which shapes them into confident human beings who are confident, believes they can change their lives as well their families. Now, at the starting year 2018 journey our student can proudly say JAAGO has given them hope of a better future while they excel at public examination and extra-curricular activities. 

Merging Towards Excellence

Attending JSC and PEC Examination

The Junior School Certificate, also known as JSC, a public examination taken by students in Bangladesh after successful completion of eight years of schooling where our students of 8^th Grade participate and achieved great results.  

Starting from 2007, these are JAAGO’s 3^rd batch students from Rayerbazar School, who have participated in JSC examination 2017. 90% students have passed the exam successfully, 58% students got A, 16% students got A-, and 16% students got B.

The Primary Education Certificate (PEC) Examination is a national examination administered by the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education Bangladesh for students at the end of their fifth year in primary school. This year’s PEC Examination was important for JAAGO not because only for the first board exam for students but also it has become a landmark for us. To remove the obstacle of distance barrier from delivering quality education, we had introduced Online Schooling Program in 2011. This year, student of 1^st batch from our first ever Online School, JAAGO’s Gazipur Branch has participated in the PEC Exam. Also, it is the first time our Banani School has participated in PEC Exam as well.    

Students of three schools of JAAGO Foundation have participated in PEC examination 2017. From Rayerbazar School 3.45% students got A+, 41.3% students got A, 27.6% students got A-, 16% students got B and 10% students got C. From Banani School, 93.75% students got A. From Gazipur School 6% students got A+, 37.5% students got A, 19% students got A-, 25% students got B and 12.5% students got C.

Getting Prepared for SSC

The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Examination is a public examination in Bangladesh conducted as completion exam of Secondary Education. Students of 10th grade/class ten appear in these examinations. All the students who enrolled on our 1^st batch couldn’t made this far, because they belong from the underprivileged background. They had to struggle with their livelihood as well. There were dropouts and enrollment on 1^st batch and finally, we have 19 students participating in SSC examination in 2018.

The change is significant in the local communities where JAAGO schools operate. When JAAGO started its journey, the communities were reluctant to open up to yet another organization which wanted to change their lives. But watching the people of JAAGO’s unwavering commitment and dedication to improve lives of not only its students but also the families, these communities have slowly realized the impact JAAGO’s school program. After this 10 year journey, JAAGO first batch students are looking to participate on SSC Examination this year which is one of the very important exam for any students in Bangladesh.

Photo Voice Exhibition

JAAGO believes in injecting creative and logical thinking among the children of JAAGO to help them flourish with knowledge. Each child has the potential to become everything they have dreamt of, only if they are given the right platform. At JAAGO, we ensure our children get the right education and experience to achieve their dream.

From this belief, JAAGO collaborated with Volunteer for Bangladesh (VBD), largest youth organization in the country, to instill creative skill among its students. They were trained of how this exhibition will work, trained on taking picture etc. Together, they have organized an exhibition of photos where one photo says thousand words. Children picked random photos of their choices, which expressed many untold issues of the community. Finally these photos were exhibit on public.  

Public Speaking Competition

JAAGO delivering education in a way which shapes the students for future endeavors by preparing them in a way so they could develop themselves. Public Speaking Competition is an internal competition in JAAGO Schools where student participates and deliver speeches on random topic selected by teachers.

This is an initiative designed to develop skills of the students and build capacities among them for future challenges. Teachers allocate different topics to students on saving environment, pollution, necessity of nutrition etc. They deliver speech in front of students which boost their confidence as well. Finally, winners are nominated by teacher’s preference. However, this competition has great benefits such as building self-esteem, honing critical thinking and presenting network opportunities.

How JAAGO Changing Lives!

Statement of Fatema
Class: 10^th Grade
JAAGO Foundation, Rayerbazar School 

I am Fatema and I belong to a very poor family. My father was a rickshaw-puller and mother works as a house-maid. There was a time when I could not think of studying as my family was unable to provide education to me with their low financial condition. No one in my family understood the importance of education where as I wanted to be highly educated. My fate surprised me with an amazing blessing; JAAGO came into my life as a dream. Unfortunately, I lost my father at a young age when I was studying at standard 5 in JAAGO. I felt that all of my dreams are about to end. My mother and I were living together and we could not manage food for 3 times a day. That’s when JAAGO stood by me and rescued from the horrible trauma. There’s a saying when God take something from you, He gives you something too. JAAGO provided the house rent for me and I started working as a part time assistant teacher in my school. When my brothers wanted me to get married at a certain age, I stopped going to their house because my motive was something very different. I wanted to study and have a very bright future for myself.

Now, I take tuitions and try to help my mother as much as possible. We all know that when a child is born, he/she rear-up in his/her mother lap, just like that I have grown up in JAAGO’s lap. JAAGO taught me to fight against all the odds and taught me to dream. Now, I dream of being a civil engineer with the wonderful education they are providing me. I found my fairyland on earth which is JAAGO Foundation.  

Thank You Note

This long journey of success on shaping lives of children as well their families wouldn’t be possible without our companions. We would like to thank GlobalGiving, our sponsors and all our supporters for sharing the journey with us and underprivileged children of JAAGO. Thank you so much for your support, hope together we will build a better future for tomorrow.