De wereld op een a4tje…

One visit, forever in love. And it is impossible not to be. As a consultant phrased it in a report on the situation in the area:

“Sajek is one of the unions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) where livelihood is tough and exacting, demanding severe toil and hardship to earn food security. It is a terrain characterized by challenges and complexities and dominated by endless stretches of high and rugged hills often difficult to negotiate. But the natural beauty that it is endowed with, including vast carpets of greeneries rolled out across the undulating hills, the onrushing highland streams that dance down the hills and meander through the narrow passes between the ridges and its varied fauna keeps the stranger simply spellbound.

The area is extremely poor, their only means of survival destroyed by a plague of rats. Leaving the children of the area without a future. Without hope of even a slightly better life than their parents had. Some children are ‘lucky’, they have a ‘school’. A school that has more holes than wall, with no place to sit and no teaching materials. Still people are happy with the school, something is better than nothing. They are grateful for every small bit of education their children receive.

But some children have nothing. The children of Shailatuli Para for example, a small village three hours walking of the ‘main’ road. Almost Seventy children who should go to school. And they have no school to go to. Their parents worked hard to create a great playing field but have no means to support a school. The place where the school should be, is overgrown with weed and plants. There are no organizations who are capable of doing something for the children… So I decided it was time to do it. To give Shailatuli Para a school, a future to their children. But I will need the money to do it and you all know my allowance! I’m working on a full budget at the moment but our initial estimate is that around 8000 euro is needed to run the school for three years. This is only possible because the village will also make a contribution: they will build the school.

For only 120 euro, 1 little boy or girl has access to three years of education! Who gives them a better life?

Click on these links to find more information: The children of Shailatuli Para | The budget | Donate