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MAER ACHOL SHELTERStreet Children's PARTNERS BGD

Thanks to our sponsors

On behalf of of everyone at Maer Achol* I would like to thank you for your very generous donations devoted to our Shelter for the year of 2015.Your commitment to help us is sincerely appreciated.If you, or anyone else from your organisation would like to come ans visit our shelter, you would be more than welcome and we would be honoured to show you our daily activities.

Street Children’sPARTNERS BGDMaer Achol ShelterRoad 5, House 16, Block FMirpur 2Dhaka BangladeshTel: +880 (2) 90 108 63Mobil2: +88 01755 652 049

*In Bengali language, Maer Achol means the fold of the mother’s saree where she protects her child.

Our main goal is to raise the street children economic condition with enhanded dignity. To reach that gaol, we follow four ways:

“Accommodation - Health - socialization – Education”

Every year Maer Achol shelter keeps advancing its mission of helping street and slum children in Dhaka. Through our programs, we have seen many lives changed for the better and with the help of donations from supporters such as you we will continue to bring improvements into the lives of these children.Thank you again for your generous donation and time dedicated to make our world a better place. We hope to go on helping more children to increase the quality of their life. We promise to keep you updated of our progress and theirs.

With very best regards.

Christian Raymond.Founder and Chairman of PARTNERS

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NUMBER OF CHILDREN THIS YEAR

Total of children: 315

Resident kids: 71

Maer Achol girls: 32Maer Achol boys; 26Shukhi Ghar: (boys’ hostel) boys: 13

Non resident kids: 244N.F.E: 119 FE. 61 Tailoring 52 IT 12

Non formal education: 145 children

Formal Education: 67 students

UCEP

The Underprivileged Children’s Education Programme (UCEP) in Bangladesh focuses on providing educational opportunities to poor and working children with the objective of improving their socio-economic conditions. It trains children in marketable skills and provides employment support service through general education and vocational training

Maer Achol students have scored highly ( out of 5 points) at National Board Exams in 2016.

Vocational Training:

Maer Achol has a Sewing /Tailoring/ handicraft training center at its own premises. Here we provide the training for 10 to 18 year-old children. The training sessions are divided into 2 shifts, 5.5 days a week. We give them different types of sewing techniques which include girls and boys’ clothes, pencil bags, mobile bags, toiletry bags, big handbag, botwa, wallet, wall mats etc. Each trainee gets 30% from the sales of what he made. Handicraft training - 58 trainees, tailoring training – 54 resident and non-resident older children.

Total products sold up to June 2016 = BDT 19445


SOME ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE SHELTER

Maer Achol kids at Star Cineplex, Basundhara City on May 31st 2016

It was a wonderful occasion for the kids of Maer Achol Shelter to watch a 3D movie "The Jungle Book' at Star Cineplex with lots of fun. We all are very grateful to Mr. Mahboob Rahman, the Chairman of Star Cineplex, for granting this priceless gift to 65 destitute children. We are also thankful to Ambra, Anne- Laure, Melany, Anna, Valentina, Daniel, Myriam, Martina, Tabrez, and Veronica for their warm assistances to successfully accomplish this exclusive event.

At 10.30 am, Ms. Samiha Rahman and Mr. Anik came to the Shelter with a VDO camera to shoot our journey from Mirpur to the Star Cineplex. They also interviewed some of the children to get their impressions. They were very excited to watch this famous movies.

Visit of National Monument

On January 1st , 150 children, 24 staff and 2 volunteers Jicé and Jo visited our National Monument, about 35 km north-west of Dhaka built in memory of the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the liberation of Bangladesh. The children visited some graves of our freedom fighters and gathered a knowledge of the 1971 war.


Activities with students of AISDOn March 12th, 65 resident children made a day-out with the students of AISD at their place. They attended different types of activities such as playing football, watching movies, and swimming. After that, they all had a lunch.

One Day at nandan amusement ParkThe kids of Maer Achol Shelter spent a great day at 'Nandan amusement Park' organised by "Dhaka International Women Association and Pubali Construction Company Limited" on 20th of March 2016. The children played at Water Kingdom, enjoyed a puppet show and had snacks, lunch and ice-cream.

Furthermore, every child got a gift box with some educational items and toiletries. The children were excited.

VISITORS

Summary of the visits at Maer Achol had in the year 2016

OTTO International Hermes

Mr. Mikael Grard, the General Maneger of OTTO International Hermes came to visit Maer Achol Shelter on 24th of June 2016. At first he visited around the shelter and looked into the non-formal school, the vocational training


Later on, he went on the rooftop with all resident childre ans distributed them biscuits and chocolates. He was happy to see the infrastrucure of the shelter ans how we facilitate 65 inhouse children. He also went to Boys’hostel and spent a happy moment with the boys’there.

Friday, 13th of April the weather was exceptional. It was hot as usual and the sun stood right above Maer Achol as a halo. They arrived here at nearly 9 am, AISD students visit Maer Achol. After a short presentation one group of AISD students started educational games activities on third floor into 3 classrooms.

Another group of student went to the roof, they were hit by a view of a coloful crowd ans genuine happiness among the children. The sun was shinning intensively, and it was too hot, but finally everybody performed dance and song together.

Individual volunteers who spent time with us and gave instructions for MAER ACHOL Children

Line Mathez the founder of Partenaires–Switzerland came at Maer Achol on 18th of January for 15 days. Here she has been doing great works with the team. We heard about the most important things of Switzerland.

She also improved our sewing s e c t i o n i n t ro d u c i n g n e w patterns for big bags.

She has exchanged many new ideas of embroi-deries and witj her suggestions our handicrafts'trainers improved their skills. All the children and the staff love her as she is a mind-blowing person.Line also organised the team and children tou create a « garden Tower » in the yard. It was a new experience to Maer Achol team and children. They had never seem anx plant growing inside a plastic drum. We all learned about agriculture.


Christian Zuerpel, third secretary, Cultural and press section embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany

He has been one of the well-wishers of Street Children’s PATNERS. Since 2014 he has been working at Maer Achol as an external volunteer. Every Tuesday and Friday he was giving English and german lessons to an advanced group of student. He found those resident children are really very talented and they are capable of Learning German. In this year his students have attended the exam at Goethe institute and successfully qualified.

TRAININGSMaer Achol Children regulary jom training to help them develop skills.

This project has been funded by GSRD. The main aim of this project was to create a cooking group with our adolescent boys/girls and to develop their skills for preparing, cooking and serving many types oriental dishes.Finally 16 adolescent children attended this practical cooking training by a chef who had been working 5 years in Italy.Now our cooking group is able to cook and serve different type of Salad, Pizza, Soup, Sandwiches, Cakes, Pastries, Cookies and Breads.They are also able to start the home catering service to prepare food maximum for 20 persons

Sewing training project by GSRD July 2015-June

One Year Long Cooking training Project by GSRD July 2015-June 2016

The Tailoring and Handicraft training Canter is one of regular activities of this organization. Three of vocational trainers are responsible to train the learners but also to implement many new fashion boutiques/ handicrafts. Six days in a week 100 learners usually attend in their sessions in different hours. One trainer is responsible for the handicraft and embroidery and the two other trainers are responsable for the sewing, cutting abd tailoring section. We have eight sewing machines and a big cutting table. The Hand-made items produced are then sold on, either in Bangladesh or in France in Switzerland Solidarity Fairs. This allows children to have a little amount of pocket but above all, its first work experience for them. Our goal is to enable the children to learn how to work in a professionnal manner and with rigour demands of fashion industry a large pool of jobs in Bangladesh.


HEALTH WEEK 2016

Dr. Khan and Sarah Rahman, Office Communications of SANOFI attended the ‘Special Health Week 2016" and they organised an awareness session on ‘General Heath’. The session targeted more than 200 boys and girls. It was held at Maer achol Shelter on 6th of June. 12 of new arrived street children were vaccinated against Hepatitis B. Our physician Mrs. Nadira Sharmin

A dental check-up session was done by Dr. Mahia Rahman from "Bangladesh Medical College Hospital,Dhanmondi" for 44 children on 5th of June.We distributed de-worming tablets and hygiene products (paste, tooth brushes, soapsand shampoo) to 270 childrens.Last 6 months, 3 children suffered from severe diseases, such as gynécologocal and stomach infections. They all received better treatment at the hospital.


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