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UKBET Is a Registered Charity in UK (Reg. No 1027704) Hajera of SCAR Won the First Prize at Art Competition UKBET 's quarterly bulletin January 2014 A UK Based Charity working on Child Labour, Education and Environment in Bangladesh Over the past 20 years UKBET UKBET observed the "Universal Children's Day has worked with hundreds of 2013" on 20th November 2013 by opening its teachers, mostly in government first "Centre for Working Children" on Gazi Burhan schools in Sylhet, developing Uddin Road, Noyagaon, Sylhet. Mr Ariful Hoque their skills and confidence to Chowdhury, the honourable Mayor of Sylhet City teach and inspire fluency in Corporation, formally opened the Centre. English. We start our 21st year with a radical change in direction. UKBET's main purpose is now to do everything we can to support and develop children who work, particularly those employed in dangerous and hazardous occupations. There are hundreds of thousands of such children across Bangladesh, exluded from education and at risk of injury at work. We have started our work by opening a pilot 'Centre for Working Children' in Sylhet. Our approach is to seek the involvement and support of employers who in turn release children to enjoy Employers of children engaged in hazardous a part time education programme at our Centre work in steel factories and workshops in this area during working hours. Early indications are very have agreed to release working children to take positive and UKBET is now embarking on a part in education programmes at the Centre. At fundraising campaign to expand this programme the Centre children receive formal and non- within Sylhet and to other parts of the country. formal education and other services, including Meanwhile UKBET has not turned its back on basic health and welfare, food, safety equipment English language teacher training and this work and entertainment. continues with the support of the British Council, In line with national policy and identified local Learning Unlimited and St. Giles Educational Trust. need, UKBET's working children project aims to On behalf of UKBET Trustees I would like to thank engage and rehabilitate children working in our local advisors, friends, partners and staff for hazardous conditions through education. We their continuing support and look forward to work with employers and families to campaign working with them in the year ahead. for safer workplace conditions and provide health and safety training for employers. UKBET Annette Zera hopes to open other Centres like this one in areas where children are engaged in hazardous work. UKBET is a registered charity in UK (Reg. no 1027704) Hajera of SCAR won the first prize at Art Competition "Shikkha prothiti Shishur Odhikar" - "Education is the right of every child" - UKBET organised a rally with this message on "Universal Children's Day 2013" on 20th November 2013. Children UKBET and the Rotary Club of Sylhet Sunshine jointly from the newly opened "UKBET Centre for arranged an Art competition for underprivileged Working Children" and their employers all children on "Universal Children's Day 2013". joined the rally. Children from UKBET's newly launched "Working Children's Project", the Bangladesh Government's project "Services for the Children at Risk" and children from a school run by the Rotary Club of Garden City for slum children all enjoyed participating in the competition and seeing their work displayed. The Executive Director of UKBET Md. Asaduzzaman Sayem and Md. Hanif - the President of the Rotary Club of Sylhet Sunshine thanked the children and guests for participating in the programme and said they hoped UKBET works as advocates for education with to work together to put on more events like this in the parents, where possible persuading them to future. "This has been a huge success, "said Md. send their children to school or vocational Asaduzzaman Sayem, "and it just goes to show how training rather than to work. important it is that we work together to support disadvantaged and working children and provide At the same time we are committed to lobbying opportunities for them to engage in learning, feel for much-needed improvements in health and supported and acknowledged, and have some fun!". safety at work, particularly where children are at Artist Mr Abdul Mukit (MA in Fine Arts, CU) was the risk. Our Centre for working children offers a main judge for the competition. new start for Working Children and we plan to open and run many more centres in areas where children are engaged in hazardous work Karen Dudley, a member of the UKBET Board of Trustees in the UK, recently visted the "Services for the Children at Risk- SCAR" Project which is part of the Social Welfare department of the Government at Uposhor, Sylhet. The SCAR project provides shelter and a wide range of support to girls aged from 5 to 16 for their rehabilitation back with their own families. She talked with the girls and the SCAR project team and was treated to a beautiful performance of songs in Bangla and English. The girls then enjoyed their first film show put on by the UKBET team. From now on UKBET will arrange regular film shows for the girls at the SCAR. UKBET is a registered NGO in Bangladesh A dialogue and advocacy session with the Automobile Workshop Owners' Association of Sylhet District was held on 23 September 2013 at UKBET's office. Mr. Ajit Roy Vajan, General Secretory of Sylhet Automobile workshop Owners' Association, assured everyone of a wide range of support from the owners in implementing the Working Children's project. Around 30 workshop owners confirmed they would send their child workers to the UKBET Children can't do it - but we can Centre for their education. Bedananda Bhatcharjee and Rana Barman, two prominent freedom fighters from Sylhet, shared their personal experiences of battles during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 with members of the UKBET's Centre for working children as part of a programme "Muktijudhhar Kache Muktijuddher Golpo Shunar Ashor". UKBET is the delivery partner in Bangladesh for "Teaching and Learning English (TaLE)" a two-year European Integration Fund (EIF) project, led by Learning Unlimited, a social enterprise in the UK. The project is delivering capacity building teacher training programmes for 40 local teachers of English enabling them to develop their Participants with the trainers - Simon O'Donovan and Nick Fawbert knowledge, skills and confidence in English, in The TaLE project is also delivering free Life in the teaching ESOL to adults and gain internationally UK ESOL courses from Entry level 1 to Level 2 for recognised ESOL teaching qualifications. For the 100 Bangladeshi women in and around Sylhet who second year UKBET has arranged and supported are planning to join husbands and families in the an extremely popular Cambridge Teaching UK and settle there. These ESOL courses help the Knowledge Test (TKT) course, delivered by Simon participants to find out more about life in the UK as O'Donovan and Nick Fawbert, trainers from St. Giles well as prepare for ESOL exams. International, for 16 teachers from different government schools, English medium schools and For more information, see ESOL tuition providers. http://www.learningunlimited.co/projects/tale A nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Raising awareness about the preservation of nature and environmental issues is one of UKBET's new priorities. A round table discussion meeting on "Ratarul Swamp Forest - Preservation & development" was jointly arranged by UKBET and Chief Guest Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhit MP stressed the need for a coordinated effort for the development and Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA), Sylhet on preservation of Ratargul. 24th September 2013. The Honourable Finance Minister, Mr Abul Mal Abdul Muhith MP, was the Chief Guest stressed the need for a co-ordinated chief guest joined by Mr Ashfaqe Ahmed, effort for the development and preservation of Chairman of Sadar Upozila, Md Shakawat Hussain, Ratargul. He also instructed the forest authority to Additional Deputy Inspector General of Police, take the necessary action to bar any kind of Advocate E U Shahidul Islam, Vice President of motorised vessel from entering the forest area and BAPA, Sylhet and Md Abdul Mojid, Head of to display "Do's and Don'ts" for tourists at the Department of Environmental Science, North-East forest area entrance. The programme was University, Sylhet. facilitated by the Executive Director of UKBET - Md. Asaduzzaman Sayem. Abdul Karim Kim, Secretory General of BAPA, Sylhet, presented a paper on the existing UKBET strongly supports work to improve and condition of the unique Ratargul Swamp Forest conserve our environment and this programme and the future action that is urgently required for was an initial step. We believe small deeds done its preservation. Official representatives from the are better than great deeds planned and we will Forestry Department and Environment continue with this type of concerted effort in the Department also took part in the discussion. The future. BBC Janala is providing materials for UKBET's Language Clubs which run at schools across the district. These language clubs provide opportunities, mostly for students in rural areas, to practise their An English Language skills development course speaking and llistening skills in English. At the was arranged for 30 Primary School teachers in moment, there are UKBET Language Clubs in Beanibazar Upozila, Sylhet in September 2013 with Gobindagonj ML High School, Gowainghat High support from the Local Administration. School, Charkhai High School, Azad Chowdhury Academy and Lalabazar BL High School. There is More on UKBET - www.ukbet-bd.org also a Central Language Club at the UKBET office. Get connected www.facebook.com/ukbet As a charity and NGO, UKBET welcomes support in many ways.
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