After completing his education from abroad, Rahmatuzzaman Rumon, the Founder of the non-profit organisation We, Not I, came back to his homeland with the goal to help the youth.

Founded by Mahmud Hossain Amin, a student of Dhaka Residential Model College, Yearning Aches Foundation is a youth organisation that works to build a better society, by eradicating social problems.

Mr. Hakim was a very strange man for three things: he seldom spoke, he always smiled and he sold bottles of waves.

We have a serious problem: People in our society do not see women as human.

In a relief distribution event of Bandhu Foundation, Atia Nur Chowdhury, Director of Bandhu Foundation and her colleagues came across a 21 year old girl and after they listened to her horrifying experiences with menstruation, the idea of Project Konna came into light.

Veterinarian Dr Salma Sultana was honoured with the 2020 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application from World Food Prize Foundation (WFPF). The ceremony was held virtually on October 13, 2020.

A group of students of DPS STS School Dhaka wanted to contribute to the society by helping the underprivileged and the neglected communities of Bangladesh. With a simple goal of easing people’s lives in mind, student-led NGO, DAWN was born.

Nahiyan Chowdhury from DT emerged victorious after a gruelling hour of competition, with Riaz Ahmed from Heed International coming in second, and Sarika Saiyara from Academia bringing up the rear.

Feminists Across Generations is a coalition of organisations, including Kotha, Naripokkho, SheDecides Bangladesh, Right Here Right Now - Youth SRHR, Bonhishikha, and Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust - BLAST, working closely against gender-based violence. Additionally, Oroddho Foundation and Swayong also played a major role in building a network of feminists that came together for an intergenerational fight against the growing incidents of rape, sexual harassment and violence against women. They came together to express their solidarity to the victims yesterday at the gathering, ‘Rage against Rape’ in front of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. “While planning the movement, we knew it had to be broad enough to end violence in all forms,” said Umama Zillur, founder, Kotha, and one of the key organisers.

Commemorating International Day of the Girl Child with Star Youth, The Daily Star arranged a webinar titled, “Ensuring an equal world for the girl child.” The webinar was broadcast live from The Daily Star’s Facebook page, earlier today.

YouthMappers is a network of universities which provides students with the opportunity to learn mapping skills, develop leadership experiences and create new geospatial data for development projects in places that are vulnerable to natural and social disasters.

Oroddho Health is a youth-based peer support platform, founded by Awsaf Karim in 2019. It works to raise awareness regarding mental health issues, and is dedicated towards providing free counselling services through its Facebook page and group.

InclusionX is a social organisation that intends to support people with mental and physical disabilities.

To this day, mental health remains one of the most neglected subjects in developing countries like Bangladesh. Despite the sheer number of people living with traumatic experiences and mental health issues,

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Gates Cambridge Scholarship Program 2021 in University of Cambridge

Nandita Suraksha started their journey in April 2019 as a non-profit voluntary organisation, with an aim to support underprivileged women and children across the country.

Starting out as a small online business run by a young mother, Lina’s Thousand Things turned into a successful clothing brand in the country in the span of just a few years.

“Whose face did you wake up to this morning?”

Kolkata has a sense of modern antiquity in its air.