Dear Friends,
Bangladesh Association, Houston (BAH) is proud to announce that we have compiled a detail engineering drawing of our pride Shaheed Minar to help facilitate Bangladeshi around the world who wants to build a Shaheed Minar in their respective cities. We have already erected a Shaheed Minar at our Bangladesh-American Center, built on our own 4 acre land in Houston. His Excellency Ambassador Akramul Qader unveiled the Shaheed Minar on May 16, 2010 in Houston. During the construction process we surveyed and documented the exact measurement of the central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka.
The detail drawing is now available for public at BAH web site: http://www.bangladesh-associaiton.com. If you are interested to build Shaheed Minar in your city permanently or even temporarily for a cultural program and would like to build it maintaining the proper aspect ratio, then please go to BAH website and download the drawing for free to get a very good understanding and accurate measurement. You can scale it down to suit your need.
BAH observes the Ekushe February or International Mother Language Day (IMLD) every year to show respect for the language martyrs. However, its activities related to IMLD go beyond just observing the day once a year. BAH has been actively pursuing UNESCO to make Shaheed Minar the official icon for International Mother Language Day and has been working with many organizations from other countries to give it an international persona.
We recognize Mr. Azadul Haq, one of our life members and FOBANA Executive Member, for coming up with this unique idea and taking the initiative on our behalf. On behalf of Bangladesh Association, Azadul Haq personally delivered the drawing to Ambassador His Excellency Akramul Qader in Washington DC and also to the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to UN Dr. Momen last month so that the drawing can be displayed and link can be placed in respective websites.
We also recognize Mr. Saddam Ahmad of Design Alliance for producing this one of a kind service. He graciously agreed to provide this drawing at no cost to any Bangladeshi who is willing to build a Shaheed Minar in their respective cities. Finally, we urge you to spread this wonderful information to the cities that you travel and encourage all Bangladeshis living in USA to erect Shaheed Minar in their cities to show respect to the language martyrs.
Besides numerous local activities BAH is working around the year on many other initiatives to uplift the image of Bangladesh. This is one of many examples.
Sincerely,
Afzal Ahmed
Chairperson
Bangladesh Association, Houston
A non-profit Texas Corporation
Serving people since 1978
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