Our partner in this project, Moanoghar, was founded in 1974 by a group of Buddhist monks to provide shelter to children of Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts affected by conflict or living in remote areas. Today Moanoghar School provides free or highly subsidized education to about 1,250 disadvantaged children from different ethnic indigenous communities of this rural, mountainous region; more than 700 of the students live on campus in twelve residential hostels. The Chittagong Hill Tracts is the poorest region in Bangladesh and has the country’s highest dropout rates, especially among girls. Despite serving a largely impoverished and rural student population, Moanoghar is among the best-performing schools in the region.
This project has been designed to provide for both the immediate needs of the children at Moanoghar and the longer-term support of the school. In the short-term, the project will create vegetable gardens on the Moanoghar grounds to bolster the nutrition of children living at the school. The project will also provide a nutritious midday meal to the children during their school break. For the longer-term, a nursery of nut- and fruit-tree saplings will be planted, with additional saplings provided to guardians of Moanoghar students. When the trees mature, the produce can be used as cash crops to support the educational needs of the children. Finally, the project will provide agricultural training sessions to staff and family farmers. The project will directly benefit 850 students at Moanoghar, approximately half of whom are girls; additionally, trainings will benefit an estimated 75 adults and their families. Annually renewable project.
This project is co-sponsored by BGR’s European sister organization, Mitgefühl in Aktion (MiA).
Our partner in this project, Moanoghar, was founded in 1974 by a group of Buddhist monks to provide shelter to children of Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts affected by conflict or living in remote areas. Today Moanoghar School provides free or highly subsidized education to about 1,250 disadvantaged children from different ethnic indigenous communities of this rural, mountainous region; more than 700 of the students live on campus in twelve residential hostels. The Chittagong Hill Tracts is the poorest region in Bangladesh and has the country’s highest dropout rates, especially among girls. Despite serving a largely impoverished and rural student population, Moanoghar is among the best-performing schools in the region.
This project has been designed to provide for both the immediate needs of the children at Moanoghar and the longer-term support of the school. In the short-term, the project will create vegetable gardens on the Moanoghar grounds to bolster the nutrition of children living at the school. The project will also provide a nutritious midday meal to the children during their school break. For the longer-term, a nursery of nut- and fruit-tree saplings will be planted, with additional saplings provided to guardians of Moanoghar students. When the trees mature, the produce can be used as cash crops to support the educational needs of the children. Finally, the project will provide agricultural training sessions to staff and family farmers. The project will directly benefit 850 students at Moanoghar, approximately half of whom are girls; additionally, trainings will benefit an estimated 75 adults and their families. Annually renewable project.
This project is co-sponsored by BGR’s European sister organization, Mitgefühl in Aktion (MiA).
