The Dhaka South City Corporation has handed over Tk 5 lakh and a plot of land in the city’s Dhalpur area to Sajida Foundation for construction of a poverty reduction centre to be used for educating around 10,000 homeless pavement-dwelling children and improving their quality of life. The assistance in cash and kind will be used by the non-governmental organisation under the Amrao Manush Project, said a DSCC press release.
The project, funded by Concern Worldwide, Bangladesh and Irish Aid, is being implemented in partnership with the Dhaka North and Dhaka South city corporations, Sajida Foundation, Nari Maitree, Social and Economic Enhancement Programme, and the Coalition for the Urban Poor.
As a part of the initiative, the DSCC with the help of the Amrao Manush Project partners held a rally of around 500 pavement-dwelling children on the premises of its head office on Thursday.
Secretary to Local Government Division Abu Alam Mohammad Shahid Khan inaugurated the rally, with DSCC administrator Mohammad Nazrul Islam and chief executive officer Mohammad Ansar Ali Khan and officials of the project implementing partner organisations present.
After the rally, the DSCC handed over Tk 500 as a one-time stipend to each of 280 pavement-dwelling children.
-With New Age input
