Daffodil International School
Daffodil International School (DIS) has signed an agreement with Gazipur branch recently. Saifuddin Ahmed, Director, DIS, Gazipur branch handed over documents of agreement to Dr Md Mahmudul Hassan, Principal, Daffodil International School . Mohammad Nurruzzaman , Chief Executive Officer of Daffodil Group and Md Monir Hossain , Company Secretary of Daffodil Computers Ltd, Roksana Kader Munni, Vice-principal, Gazipur Branch and other high officials were present during the signing ceremony. Education and Daffodil became an inseparable part.DIS started its operation in Gazipur in 2013 in this regard. DIS signed an agreement with its new extension of High School of DIS Gazipur, an English version school from play group to class- X which is following British curriculum in pre-primary section and English version of national curriculum in primary, Junior and secondary section recently.
Clean Bagmati Campaign
Over 140 teachers, graduates and trainers of U.S. Department of State-sponsored English language programmes from six countries joined 600 volunteers from local civic organisations in Kathmandu to clean the banks of the Bagmati River recently. The campaign, now in its 340th consecutive week, was spearheaded by Lilamani Paudel, Nepalese Ambassador to China, and the Government of Nepal’s Ministry of Urban Development’s Clean Bagmati Campaign to promote a healthy river ecosystem. Participants enthusiastically rolled up their sleeves as they joined local volunteers to collect thousands of kilograms of garbage and debris from the banks of the Bagmati river. The event kicked off by recognizing the U.S. sponsored participants and thanking them for their contribution to raising awareness of a local issue that hasglobal implications. The U.S. sponsored participants are in Nepal as part of a larger program designed to help them create and implement their own needs-based service projects, enhance their media literacy skills, and develop a community of practice that virtually links classrooms and alumni organizations across borders. On the Clean Bagmati event, one participant from India remarked, “It taught me the value of coming together. It also taught the greatest lesson of all time: Be part of the change that you want to see in the world.”
The participants, from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, are part of the U.S. Department of State’s flagship English Access Microscholarship Program. U.S. government-sponsored experts were on hand to facilitate the seven-day training and guide the group in sharing best practices from their individual teaching experiences and developing effective community service campaigns.
The English Access Microscholarship Program provides a foundation of English language skills to talented youth from economically disadvantaged communities over two-years of after-school classes and intensive sessions and is part of the U.S. effort to help prepare youth for future academic study and job opportunities. Since its inception in 2004, approximately 125,000 students in more than 85 countries have participated in the English Access Microscholarship Program, including more than 1000Bangladeshi students in four locations across Bangladesh.
