Staff Reporter :
Former Media Adviser to the Prime Minister Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, also editor to the Daily Observer, said that a father is equal to some 100 teachers. The fathers are like a banyan tree over the head of a child. Their affection for the children is unconditional.
He made the remark while speaking as the chief guest at a media advocacy meeting organized by a private NGO ‘Light House’ on Saturday in collaboration with USAID Happy Life Project, Pathfinder International at the Bangladesh Shishu Kalyan Parishad auditorium.
Light House Chief Executive Haroon Ur Rashid presided over the meeting while Bangladesh Editors Forum member secretary Farooq Ahmed Talukder, Director of Light House Md Salauddin. Besides, various media persons were present at the meeting.
Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury said in all countries of the world, a man named ‘Baba’ is the main earner of a family and the executor of all kinds of expenses. The father has to take care of the children, wife and other people in the family to guide them and above all to take care of them.
Haroon Ur Rashid said that the Light House is working on sexual and reproductive health of youth and adolescents in selected wards of the city corporations of Dhaka North, Dhaka South and Gazipur and five upazilas of Gazipur district with the help of Pathfinder International. Under the project, health education and treatment is being provided to the youth and adolescents through referrals.
The Light House has taken the initiative to celebrate ‘International Father’s Day, 2022’ in order to evaluate the contribution of fathers in the family and society.
