Bangla website on deprived children launched

The Group, supported by Save the Children Sweden-Denmark, is involved both in print and electronic media with a view to establishing the rights of the children who are being deprived.

However, the website is basically developed by a group of children who received training from INCIDIN Bangladesh.

While introducing the home page of the website, Mamun, website member of Ichchey, showed that the website contains child related news including rights, problems, repression, entertainment and appeal for help.

Mamun hoped to complete the entire site within the next four to six months.

Cristine Z Jeppensen, programme manager of Save the Children Sweden-Denmark, inaugurated the website at Ramna Restaurant in the city.

Speaking on the occasion, Ershad, member of computer department of Ichchey, said that the Group aims to expose the overall condition of the children of the country and inspire all to take initiatives to help them.

Ichchey also aims to make way for children who do not get chance to take part in media specially the underprivileged ones, he added.

Explaining the background of the initiative of a Bangla website, Sabrina Karim Murshed, information officer of Child-led Organisation and Advocacy, Save the Children Sweden-Denmark, said Ichchey members participated in creating a website in Danish focusing child labour in Bangladesh in 2005.

During that time, Ichchey members realised most of the children of Bangladesh are being deprived of the news about them since it was not in Bangla, she added. And that's why they developed this new site.