"Pink Bags" scholarships for young girls

‘Literacy program for marginalized community’ was a rich, multi-faceted project of the
year 2019. The project has played a significant role to develop children’s potential
through quality education, character building lessons and awareness building on their
rights and duties, improving women education and social awareness in 2 Upazila areas
(Tala and Paikgachha).
In this year’s program, emphasis has been placed on raising social awareness by
targeting youth groups through motivating them. In addition, competent students are
being trained to enhance their skills on English spoken by providing training. Various
programs are being implemented to increase the self-confident of adolescent girls by
arranging special events for them. distributed exercise books, pens, pencils, scales, slates, nursery books, etc to
school students during 2019. Distributed materials were as follows: Nursery books 114
pieces, Slate 114 pieces,
Exercise books (large) 6,541
pieces, Exercise books (small)
8,582 pieces, Pen 6,518, Pencil
815, Scale 815, Chalk 280
boxes to 938 students. Dalit
also distributed stationary
materials to all schools.
In the month of June and
December, Dalit has paid
monthly tuition fees to 559
students to guarantee their
attending classes in other
schools. Students from grade IV
to X were received BDT
3,79,550 (Girls 2,52,440 taka,
Boys 1,27,110 taka) as monthly stipend. Dalit also provided 1,04,040 Taka as medical
support to 82 sick students. arranged a guidance seminar to the SSC examinee (of 2020) on November 20th
2019, providing them guidelines to achieve good result. 58 examinees were participated
in the seminar, where facilitators and invited guests guidelines to them. At the end of
motivational session Chief Guest of the program handed over 92,884 Taka to them. 

Inspiring gathering of S.S.C and H.S.C passed dalit students
With the aim of encouraging students to pursue higher education, Dalit arranged a
guidance seminar on May 23 for SSC passed dalit students and on July 31 for HSC

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passed dalit students at Dalit Hospital Auditorium (Chuknagar, Khulna) providing them
guidelines to prepare their future study plan and information to get admission in local
and national institutions. It is noted that, 54 students participated in the SSC examination and rate of pass was
96.30%. Facilitators and invited guests provided guidelines to achieve success in future
life. At the end of motivational session Chief Guest of the program handed over some
gifts to the most meritorious students. 

Higher education support to girl students
This activity has responded very well in the project areas for providing financial support
to young girls for higher education. However, Dalit’s main purpose behind this
assistance is to eliminate child marriage and women empowerment. So every month

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Dalit arranged motivational seminar with college and university going girl students to
raise-up their voice against early marriage and establish women rights in the society.
During the reporting period; Dalit arranged 12 seminars and distributed 4,26,785 Taka to
60 girl students. Drawing & cultural competition
Drawing and cultural competition was organized to increase the confidence of dalit
children and develop their talents to
survive in competition with the other
community children. Dalit organized
the competitions at Tala Shilpakala
Academy on December 24 th , 2019 with
35 students of 12 schools under this
project. They participated in 4
categories of events, such as Drawing,
Music playing, Dance and Performing
arts. Our invited guests enjoyed the
competitions and handed over the
prizes to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd placed
participants in each category.Training on English spoken
Fear and inertia works among secondary and higher secondary level students
(especially at the village level) when speaking English. As a result, they always lag
behind in the field of
education and
professional work. To
overcome this problem,
the project has provided
training on English
spoken to 4 students of
higher secondary level.
The duration of this
training was 6 months
(August 2019 to January
2020). Currently the
students' English fears
have subsided and they
continued to practice
English.
Skill development training for Teachers
In order to update the teachers with the changing education system, a qualitative
training was organized to develop teacher's skill with 12 full time teachers under this
project. Through the training, teachers were oriented on teaching strategy, question
making strategy, proper use of school register, reporting, case study writing, arranging
meeting, creative education system etc. The training was held from 17 th to 19 th
September 2019. Upazila Education Officer along with Govt. school teacher were
facilitated the training. Training on Advocacy
Three days long training was organized by Dalit to enhance advocacy skills among
teachers, club members and project staff. With this training participants have trained up
how to do advocacy with the stakeholders on various types of problems in the village.
The training was held during June 25 th to 27 th 2019 at Chuknagar Dalit Hospital
Auditorium. Monthly orientation for Teachers
Dalit has been arranged monthly orientation session for the teachers to develop monthly
study plan, giving them motivational guidelines and review the progress. During the
reporting period Dalit arranged 12 orientation sessions for them, where 36 teachers (12
full-time & 24 part-time) under this project were participated.Observation of National girl child day
The people of the project areas are disadvantaged, socially and economically they are
left far behind the rest of other upazilas. They have no human dignity and access in
basic human rights,
especially for the women/
girl child. They are doubly
subject to discrimination.
To create awareness on
rights of girl child among
the civil society, members
of U.P, religious leaders,
local leaders and
teachers, Dalit has been
arranged a rally followed
by discussion meeting on
observance of National
Girl Child Day on
September 30 th 2019 at
Tala Shilpakala Academy
hall room, Tala, Satkhira.
Total 180 participants
including Upazila administration officer and Upazila Chairman were participated in the
program.
Street theater on raising awareness
The villagers’ mentality can be touched very easily through street theatre. So the project
has been delivered motivational messages directly through entertainment. During the
period 6 street theatres have arranged in the month of April in different villages to alert
the audience on social obstacles/ taboos.Awareness raising meeting reducing early marriage
Child marriage is the most prevalent issue in dalit community. Because of poverty and
unconsciousness, parents in this community arrange their girl’s marriage before they
reach adulthood. For this reason, enhancing awareness reducing early marriage, Dalit
arranged 12 meetings during April to December 2019. Meeting with club committee members
Under sponsorship program, 6 adolescent clubs are being run in this project from this
year onwards to encourage adolescents to work for the betterment of the society and
eliminate wrong practices from the society. Each club has a committee
consisting of 5 men
and 5 women. Those
whose
responsibilities are to
fight against child
marriage, eve
teasing, drug
addiction and
protesting against
social evils. Dalit
arranged 49
meetings with the
club committee
members during the
half year, where a total of 534 members participated in the meeting. Carrom boards and
chess boards have been provided to each club to make the members cultured and
playful through the adolescent clubs.we were able to complete the activities of the project within the stipulated period.
We have tried to ensure maximum participation in each program.

• CaseHistory_Fondazione_2019.pdf (PDF)