Sepali said, “Before the exam, I realized some lack in my preparation and I was struggling to understand some complicated issues of math, physics, and chemistry. ActionAid always helped me and my family to overcome difficult situations and this time also helped me by providing tuition facilities. A teacher taught us two months before the final examination. I have also planned for future and want to be a police officer.”

Unueshayang (17) thought her dreams got shattered when she could not sit for the secondary school certificate (SSC) examination in 2021 due to not having the preparation. Lack of guidance is the most common challenge that children living in hill tracts mostly suffer in completing education. Unueshayang’s father tried to give her daughter the best opportunity but could not arrange tuition for her. After knowing this, ActionAid extended mentoring support for Unueshayang and she finally appeared in the SSC exam 2022 where she successfully passed the examination.

Most. Moriom is 32-year-old women from Dalbugonj village in Patuakhali, a highly disaster-prone coastal area of Bangladesh. As her husband is a migrant worker at Middle East, living alone with her 2 kids in such an area; Moriom knew she cannot limit herself within home and had to stay strong to protect her family from any form of harm.

Mst. Sathy Aktar is an activist from Kushtia and the vice-president of Ideal Youth Union. She was studying at Rajshahi University and lived in Rajshahi for her study.

“Once upon a time when I was a child, I came to know about my classmates being groped by a stranger on their way to school. I want to raise awareness on this issue so that other girls do not have to face it as my friends did.” -Says young activist Sadia Rahman Nidhi

Jahedul is a 15 year old boy from Nilphamari studying in a local secondary school. He is passionate about drawing and wants to support children in Child Space to learn drawing.

In 2010 ActionAid formed the community Journalist Group (This group consists of 17 members like community children, teachers, local journalist, and staffs of partner organizations etc.