In spite of wide scale efforts of governmental agencies and many NGOs, including the premier Scholarship Program of VAB, many needy but meritorious students of rural areas “fall through the cracks”. Their extraordinary merits are evident in their performance in schools and colleges. Their needs are heart-rending – sometimes they cannot even afford one decent meal a day or clothing and shoes, not to speak of educational expenses. In 2017, Engr. and Mrs. Rahman, came across few such students in a rural school in Shyamnagar in Shatkhira district, while they were offering a program on English language training.

With VAB’s assistance, they gathered information about their family income, academic performance and estimated costs of meeting their needs. Through VAB, they then arranged for scholarships of BD Taka 12,000 (about US $150) annually per student for 5 students. Over the past two years, the Rahmans worked relentlessly with other expatriates in Australia, and mobilized funding to enable VAB to increase the recipients of such scholarships to 35 high school students and 7 college students. The 7 college students are well-performing high school graduates who had received the school scholarship in 2017. They get BD Taka 24,000 (about $300) each per year. (A list of scholarship awardees can be found HERE.)

Help to the worthy and neediest rural students is the mission of VAB, a Charity founded by expatriates and led by them to date. Such support from expatriates assists VAB in coping with its severe resource constraints.

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