Children City for 10,000 orphans soon
Dhaka Ahsania Mission will soon establish the 'Ahsania Mission Children City' in Panchagarh where 10,000 orphan street children will get shelter.
The street children will be rehabilitated in phases. The first children village would be built at Jalapara village under Hafizabad union.
There will be 10 such villages, and around one thousand street children will be accommodated in each village under the city.
The mission authorities disclosed the plan at a press conference at its Dhanmondi office in the capital yesterday.
The foundation stone of the city will be laid on April 21.
Alongside vocational education, the children will get the opportunity of studying up to higher secondary level.
Dhaka Ahsania Mission President Kazi Rafiqul Alam said at present there are about 13 lakh street children across the country, and future of these children looks bleak as they are deprived of love and care.
The hapless children would be imparted job-oriented technical education as well as skill development training through regular exercise, games and sports, and cultural activities, he said.
There will be facilities for rearing poultry birds and livestock, pisciculture and crop cultivation. In this manner, the children will stand on their own feet and become self-reliant, Rafiqul said.
The villages will be self-sufficient in nature. Resident children will produce crops on the fields of villages to cater to their needs. Schools and colleges will also be established for their proper education, Rafiqul added.
The mission Executive Director M Ehsanur Rahman and former secretary Mohammad Lutfar Rahman Talukder spoke in the press conference.
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