Projects in Bangladesh
 Bangladesh is a country nearly as big as England and Wales together and with it's 130 million inhabitants. it is most populated-country of the world. Of it's citizen, 62% are illiterate and 74% of there women are the main cause for this is that 80% population lives in the countryside and has to work hard for a very small wage.
 Children are required to look after their brothers and sisters or, in order to make money, need to work. Most of the jobs involved are dangerous. Many children are employed in the dismantling of ships or working in steel companies where they have to pull hot steel out of the fire. Many girls are forced in to prostitution. The situation worsened in the early nineties, when, under threat of an international boycott intended to provide better conditions for children a lot of clothing factories were forced to dismiss their underage workers.
Our project in the town of Haluaghat
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Haluaghat is in the north of Bangladesh about 2 hours by bus from Mymensingh, where roads become dirt tracks. Sand paths connect it to surrounding villages. Haluaghat is a trading town, where people from surrounding villages come to buy and sell their groceries.
The Oxford Christian Mission in Haluaghat was established in 1906 and is home to about 300 children of the Garo Tribes. These tribes live in the villages north of Haluaghat. The Garo tribes are Christian and are an ethnic minority in the Islamic Bangladesh. The school situated in the grounds of the mission and offers lessons to about thousands children. Children of any faith are welcome in the school.
For more information about Bangladesh, visit any of the links on the right hand side.
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