Helping the deprived children Many of us who go for a morning walk confront two contrasting pictures. One, of students rushing to schools and coaching centers by bus, cycle, car and scooter. The other picture which makes one sad is of deprived children who move around with large sacks on their shoulders to collect plastic and scrap from the heaps of debris or the leftovers that shop keepers leave outside at closing time. Children as small as six years are also seen doing all this. Unfortunately, this is the story of all Bangladeshi cities. Why should it happen when our government is not only providing mid day meals but has started evening schools for those who can't go to the school in the morning? According to me, it is happening because we are happy only with our own progress and are not concerned with what is happening around us. If we ever engage these children in discussion, we will find that their mothers are working as our domestic help and their fathers are driving rickshaws to take us somewhere. We don't mind if our own child, after having taken coaching tor a year, which costs anything up to a lakh, suddenly declares that he would like to attempt the exam only next year I have seen parents anxiously escorting their children to examination centres, even if they have to take leave from the office. But if our domestic help's child stops going to school, we don't have the time to speak to the school authorities. In most cases we don't even bother to know what her children do. But it makes a big difference when an educated person takes up the cause of such children. We all can help the cause. It simply calls for distributing our love. What we need to do is to monitor the education of at least one deprived child. Just as all our investments shouldn't be in one portfolio, likewise our love should not be only for our own one or two children. Deprived children will actually fetch us better returns.
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Sign the Petition : Release the Arrested University Teachers Immediately : An Appeal to the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh
http://www.mukto-mona.com/human_rights/university_teachers_arrest.htm
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Daily Star publishes an interview with Mukto-Mona
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MM site is blocked in Islamic countries such as UAE. Members of those theocratic states, kindly use any proxy (such as http://proxy.org/) to access mukto-mona.
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Mukto-Mona Celebrates 5th Anniversary
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/5_yrs_anniv/index.htm
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Mukto-Mona Celebrates Earth Day:
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/Earth_day2006/index.htm
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Kansat Uprising : A Special Page from Mukto-Mona
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MM Project : Grand assembly of local freedom fighters at Raumari
http://www.mukto-mona.com/project/Roumari/freedom_fighters_union300306.htm
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German Bangla Radio Interviews Mukto-Mona Members:
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/Darwin_day/german_radio/
Mukto-Mona Celebrates Darwin Day:
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