Helping Innocent Lives in Dhaka,

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Helping Innocent Lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh | Muslim Charity

Muslim Charity cares for innocent lives and strives to ensure that every child gets to enjoy the fundamental rights of education, protection, family, access to health services and all other rights as mentioned in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Commenting on a newly launched programme, Fazlul Karim of Muslim Charity in Bangladesh states, “Imagine half a million children are the victims of physical and mental violence, living under fears and insecurity, unwanted and unloved on the streets of Dhaka without having someone to care for them. That is what motivated me to start the ‘School Under the Sky Programme’ for these suffering innocent souls. My heart cried and I thought, we need to do something about it. The School Under the Sky Programme might not be a full solution but it is a beginning to ensure that street children are being taken care of and their basic rights are ensured.”

Muslim Charity’s School Under the Sky Programme is currently held at Sadarghat Launch Terminal, Dhaka, Bangladesh, which is one of the busiest and largest river ports in the world. It is used by approximately 50,000 people on a daily basis who arrive and depart from the port. Among these are also those children who are trafficked or come by themselves due to family break-ups, poverty and domestic violence in search of better lives. Most of the times these children end-up in the hands of “Mastaans” (criminals using children for carrying drugs, begging, prostitution and other illegal activities) who lead them into the underworld of Dhaka with no hopes or a future but merely a life of criminality and delinquency.

 

Through the School Under the Sky programme, Muslim Charity provides a meal, uniform, books, stationary, school bags, medical treatment and referral services to the shelter houses with the support of a social mobilizer. Non-formal education is also provided and psycho-social support. Muslim Charity understands the importance of a family for the child therefore efforts are always made to establish contact between children and their families to ensure routes towards re-integration are always considered. Muslim Charity also intends to assist the families in poverty while focusing on the well-being of these children.

A trained first Aid Social Mobiliser is pursuing a street child to attend the school and health check at Sadarghat Launch Terminal in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

Muslim Charity counts on your support to ensure the rights of street children are preserved. Please donate towards our School Under the Sky initiative in Dhaka or to our child sponsorship projects for the well-being of street children.

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