New charity for Bangladeshi children launches

• Increasing child attendance levels at local primary and secondary schools
• Facilitating the treatment of preventable disease and providing access to essential medical services
• Improving the quality and availability of services and amenities for children living in destitute, dilapidated orphanages
• Empowering ultra-poor Bangladeshi women by providing entrepreneurship and employment opportunities that will help them achieve financial independence an live with dignity.

“In Bangladesh many girls get married between the ages of sixteen and nineteen,  more than one million primary school-age girls unenrolled themselves from primary education due to poverty, social pressure, and other issues,” said Julia Reynolds, Chair of TERF.