Rajshahi Correspondent :
Access and equity to education to all, particularly the children coming from the poor and distressed communities, has become an urgent need for overall development of the nation, speakers at a discussion said here on Monday .
They viewed side by side with the government initiatives various other richer-class people and financial institutions should come forward towards providing education to the underprivileged dropout children.
They were addressing the discussion prior to giving prize among 30 poor but meritorious students who got brilliant results in different examinations in 2014.
Ladies Organization for Social Welfare (LOFS) organized the ceremony at its office in Rajshahi city in association with Children Education and Awareness Programme and Bangladesh NGO Foundation.
With Shahnaz Parveen Luckey, Executive Director of LOFS, in the chair, Zonal Head of First Security Islami Bank Ltd, Probation Officer of Social Service Department Abdullah Al Firoj, LOFS Programme Manager Md Salah Uddin, Programme Officers Champa Khatun, Sabina Yeasmin and Sumati Sarker spoke on the occasion.
The discussants said students’ dropouts from primary and secondary schools couldn’t be prevented without collective efforts of all concerned especially teachers, guardians and community people.
They urged upon the prize-recipient students to put in their level best efforts to become worthy citizens through attaining proper education.
Role of registrars, imams in building child marriage-free society emphasised
Speakers at a participatory discussion here yesterday said more responsive role of marriage registrar and imams including other community leaders has become an urgent need to control child marriage as it leads to various violence and repression against women.
Terming the child marriage as the major violence and gross violation of human rights they said there is no alternative to check it substantially.
Despite multifarious interventions by the government and non-government organizations concerned, the child marriage is taking place frequently. In this alarming situation, the mass-media should come forward positively, they added.
The observations came at a workshop styled “Role of Marriage Registrar and Imams to resist Child Marriage and violence against Women” held at the conference hall of Deputy Commissioner of Rajshahi.
Meyeder Jonnyo Nirapad Nagorikotto (MEJNIN)” programme organized the daylong meeting in association with Gender Justice and Diversity Division of BRAC where more than 65 registrars, religious and community leaders other stakeholders attended.
Deputy Commissioner Mejbah Uddin Chowdhury addressed the discussion as chief guest while District Registrar Meer Mahbub Mehedi and Deputy Director of Islamic Foundation Abdus Shakur spoke as special guests.
