Shahana Chowdhury kept going back to the story of her 25-year-old son’s recent Hong Kong visit and repeatedly said how proud she was to have seen her autistic child along with 10 others win the best performance award in a cultural programme there. Her excitement was mixed with gratitude for Begum Nur Jahan Dipa, special educator at the Parents Forum for the Differently Able (PFDA)-Vocational Training Centre, who made it possible.

To this day, the Bangladeshi community struggles with the stigma of mental health disorders and treatment. While people openly seek

Have you ever felt that your habit of reading books is gradually decreasing, as we advance towards a world where gadgets take up

Calligraphy has been practiced for a very long time in many parts of the world, including ours. Many used this art form to create special

Imagine growing up on the streets of Dhaka as an underprivileged child, without a roof above your head or a bed to sleep on.

Ironically, people who labour to keep our society clean are considered 'unclean'. We often address them with the terms 'sweepers' and 'methors'. Also, most of us are still unfamiliar with the term 'Dalit'. In Bangladesh, this marginalised group of people who encounter discrimination based on their occupation belong to the 'Dalit' community.

Inspirations come in different forms. It is something that we need every day to fight against the odds and advance further, to push

Mr. Anayet Rashid, Founder and CEO of Truck Lagbe, and Mr. Meer Hosain Ekram, COO, are the key developers of the app. The idea of

The path was not always smooth. Initially, Pathao started as a delivery service. It delivered parcels and goods on

'Slates, Smiles and Ambitions' is an article that was published in the Daily Star's 'Star Campus' back in 2012. It

Access to clean water is not only a fundamental human need, but also a basic human right.

Gone are the days when children and young people were fed 'dreams' of being doctors and engineers.

The story behind Asroy is quite heartening. “One winter night in December 2009, we wanted to bring warmth to the people sleeping

Very recently, at a roundtable organised by the Daily Star, youth leaders and students from Dhaka came together to talk about how the

Musa Karim Ripon, a third year student in the economics Department of Islamic University, Kushtia, still remembers the day when he

When Titas Sarker was a student of the Institute of Information Technlogy in Jahangir Nagar University, he faced a problem many

It is not everyday that you come across friendly CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers eager to make you feel comfortable and safe in the

If you were travelling anywhere around Dhaka on May 21, you are likely to have noticed young orange-clad volunteers collecting and

For entities to survive and continue growing, there is no alternative to innovation. As we live in the era of the Fourth Industrial

In April 2017, Social Innovation Design Week (SIDW) - a co-designed workshop - was conducted by Toru in partnership with IDEO.org