Khulna (South) Correspondent :
‘Sonamukh Satota Shopping’, an exceptional stationary which has been running without any shopkeeper in Dumuria upazila area of Khulna district is going on in full swing.
Sonamukh Satota Shopping, inside Little Flower Kindergarten School compound at village Dhamalia in Dumuria upazila of Khulna district, is an institution for teaching honesty to the tender-aged children. It is an exceptional shop which has no salesman .
This correspondent recently visited the shopping center while he found so many tender-aged students who were taking commodities according to their necessecities
School children here take commodities according to their will, see the price chart and pay the money in a tin box, kept a side.
“The main target of this shop is to promote honesty from the young age”, said AM Kamrul Islam Akunjee, 54, one of the founders of Wasek Ali Akunjee Education Trust which began as non profit stationery shop in 2011.
The trust was established in 1992 as a family initiative by AM Kamrul Islam, additional Deputy commissioner of Detective branch (ADC, DB) of Khulna Metropolitan police (KMP) and his industrialist elder brother AM Harunur Rashid Akunjee, 57. The institution has been named after their father, a liberation war supporter who was killed by the then Pakistani collaborators in 1971. The trust provides needy students educational necessities. The funds for the trust come from the profits of a taka 40 lakh family investment.
“We give assistance to the students, parents of those are unable to pay their tuition fees”, said Sheikh Abdul Jalil, director of the trust and also the former college teacher of Kamrul Islam.
At present, the trust operates in 42 schools and Madrasas and seven colleges in the upazila area. It processes 30 financial aid applications per month.
The Wasek Ali Akunjee Education Trust publishes a monthly magazine named Sonamukh, editor of this magazine is Anwar Hossain Akunjee.
After the death of their mother in 2005, Akunjee brothers established Sokhina Ali Seba project to assist farmers, fishermen, women and young people by giving interest free loans.
Around 80 women have been giving sewing machines under this project.
“We have donated around 750 cows to poor families in the locality on condition that the parents will send their children to school”, said Kamrul Islam who in his policing career has contributed to The United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions.
‘Sonamukh Satota Shopping’, an exceptional stationary which has been running without any shopkeeper in Dumuria upazila area of Khulna district is going on in full swing.
Sonamukh Satota Shopping, inside Little Flower Kindergarten School compound at village Dhamalia in Dumuria upazila of Khulna district, is an institution for teaching honesty to the tender-aged children. It is an exceptional shop which has no salesman .
This correspondent recently visited the shopping center while he found so many tender-aged students who were taking commodities according to their necessecities
School children here take commodities according to their will, see the price chart and pay the money in a tin box, kept a side.
“The main target of this shop is to promote honesty from the young age”, said AM Kamrul Islam Akunjee, 54, one of the founders of Wasek Ali Akunjee Education Trust which began as non profit stationery shop in 2011.
The trust was established in 1992 as a family initiative by AM Kamrul Islam, additional Deputy commissioner of Detective branch (ADC, DB) of Khulna Metropolitan police (KMP) and his industrialist elder brother AM Harunur Rashid Akunjee, 57. The institution has been named after their father, a liberation war supporter who was killed by the then Pakistani collaborators in 1971. The trust provides needy students educational necessities. The funds for the trust come from the profits of a taka 40 lakh family investment.
“We give assistance to the students, parents of those are unable to pay their tuition fees”, said Sheikh Abdul Jalil, director of the trust and also the former college teacher of Kamrul Islam.
At present, the trust operates in 42 schools and Madrasas and seven colleges in the upazila area. It processes 30 financial aid applications per month.
The Wasek Ali Akunjee Education Trust publishes a monthly magazine named Sonamukh, editor of this magazine is Anwar Hossain Akunjee.
After the death of their mother in 2005, Akunjee brothers established Sokhina Ali Seba project to assist farmers, fishermen, women and young people by giving interest free loans.
Around 80 women have been giving sewing machines under this project.
“We have donated around 750 cows to poor families in the locality on condition that the parents will send their children to school”, said Kamrul Islam who in his policing career has contributed to The United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions.
