Nila's stoy...Nila is a 14 years old
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Born into a lineage of poverty in the slums of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, Nila might have followed in her parents’ footsteps for a lifetime of arduous manual labor and chronic hunger. However, our amazing Catalyst Grant partner, JAAGO Foundation, stepped in to ensure Nila–and one hundred students like her–got a good, free education, including training in computer coding, that will empower her for lucrative employment.
“We are training children from the slums, targeting those children who are from less advantaged families,” says Kids Go Coding Cofounder Umme Sharmin Kabir, “to support them to shape their future and shape their life.”
JAAGO Foundation, launched by Korvi Rakshand in 2007 with seventeen children in a tin shed, has grown to serve 2,200 students in thirteen schools. They also have developed curricula and textbooks for online distance learning that reaches another one hundred schools in remote rural schools that often face challenges in retaining qualified teachers. Their online school is designed to bridge the quality gap in education through the modern technology; and their vision is to establish a free-of-cost, international-standard school in every district of the country.