The young change makers
Category: Education Online
Organisation: 10 Minute School
Founder: Ayman Sadiq
They teach Maths, English, Science and other subjects to school students. They also take special English classes along with IELTS classes for adults. On a daily basis, Ayman and his team teach more than 40,000 students online from their website. More than 25,000 students attend their live classes every day.
Category: Creating a Youth Network
Organisation: Youth Opportunities
Founder: Osama Bin Noor
Osama and his team run a website where they bring together all kinds of opportunities like scholarships, fellowships, funding opportunities, awards etc for the youth on one platform, which otherwise lay scattered all over the internet space. This makes lives easier for the young people in Bangladesh who, otherwise, are never aware of these self-development programmes. Osama won the Queen's Award for this initiative in the year 2016.
Category: Energy
Organisation: Change
Founder: Sajid Iqbal
Sajid and his team shot to fame when they created the 'bottle-baati' -- using solar energy to create light through glass bottles. This initiative of theirs, helped thousands living in crowded slums in many places of the country. Sajid was awarded the Queen's Award earlier this year.
Category: Immediate Medical Support
Organisation: CriticaLink
Co-Founder: Rahat Hossain
Rahat and his team have been providing first-aid and other medical training to students and workers. Their aim is to provide immediate medical support to those who meet with accidents on the streets or who have strokes and heart attacks at homes, work places and streets. Rahat was awarded the Queens Award earlier this year.
Category: Blood Donation
Organisation: DonateBloodBD.com
Founder: Shubrata Deb
As a university student, Shubrata would often look for blood donors amongst friends and fellow students in Dhaka, during emergencies. Soon enough, Shubrata developed a massive network of donors not only in Dhaka but also in Chittagong, Sylhet, Khulna and elsewhere. In the last 4 years, his website had 16.53 million hits and today he has more than 3,000 registered donors.
Category: Social Enterprise
Organisation: Toru
Founder: Saif Kamal
As an institution, Toru builds capacity and skills. The organsiation creates social entrepreneurs, mentors them and grooms them to be empathetic leaders, who will become role models and shape policies in the future paving a path towards inclusive growth. In fact his mentee Ayman, the founder of 10-minute-school and Saif are on the same stage today!
Category: Education and Rehabilitation
Organisation: Mojaar Ishkool
Founder: Arian Arif
Arian and his team have set up schools everywhere -- on the streets of Malibagh, at a small area near Sadarghaat, in Gulshan, Uttara -- you name it! Children who beg and sell by the street-signals are all students of Mojaar Ishkool. As the name indicates, the school provides food, sometimes a place to sleep and a fun space for young children where they sing, dance, sketch, express themselves, along with the regular studying of course.
Category: Working with the Physically and Mentally Challenged
Organsiation: Identity Inclusion
Founder: Shamsin Ahmed
Shamsin and her team work with the physically challenged, provide them with direct psycho-social support. She also regularly organises capacity-building workshops.
Category: Creating Climate Change Awareness
Organisation: Climate Tracker (the South Asia Hub)
Founder: Sohara Mehroze
The youth will very soon be bearing the brunt of Climate Change, especially in this side of the world. Sohara makes it a point to make the young people aware of what Climate Change is, its impacts and how to solve this global dilemma. In 2016, the Singapore Environment Council had awarded Sohara the Asian Young Environmental Journalist of the Year award.
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