Economic Reporter :
Standard Chartered Bank donated laptop computers to Kashipur Adorsho Girls High School for the Goal beneficiaries studying at the School recently.
Babul Krishna Saha, Head Master of Kashipur Adorsho Girls High School received the laptops at a handover ceremony held at Standard Chartered’s Head Office in Dhaka.
Bitopi Das Chowdhury, Head of Corporate Affairs and Monitur Rahman Head of Technology Standard Chartered Bangladesh handed over the laptops at the handover ceremony along with Rashida Perveen, Senior Program Manager and Abdul Bareque Senior Manager from BRAC. The girls from Standard Chartered’s Goal initiative and also other students of the school will be using these laptops at the school’s computer lab.
Goal is a unique community program that aims to empower young women for personal and economic development using sport and education as vehicles for change. The Goal curriculum is based upon four training modules focusing on financial literacy and livelihood, ‘Be Money Savvy’; communication skills, ‘Be Yourself’; health and hygiene, ‘Be Healthy’; and confidence and life skills, ‘Be Empowered’.
Standard Chartered Bank, Bangladesh in partnership with BRAC and Women Win launched Goal in Bangladesh in 2013. Within the first two years of launch the number of beneficiaries has already reached 5,700 in 4 districts (Narayanganj, Sylhet, Khulna & Bogra). Already 500 goal champions came out of the project.
Bitopi Das Chowdhury, Head of Corporate Affairs, Standard Chartered Bangladesh said “”We hope this small attempt of ours will help the budding students of this school. This is the first time we have donated computers to a school and we plan to carry on with this in the days to come so that more schools and students who are deprived of such facility will be benefited. We believe that contributing in skill development; specially education will help economic growth and alleviate poverty for Bangladesh.”
