Bangladesh

Save the Children New Zealand is funding an early childhood education programme in Daulatdia, one of Bangladesh’s largest brothels.

Daulatdia brothel is home to 1500 sex workers and more than 900 children. It is in fact so large that it has developed its own economy, with tailors, beauty parlours, cigarette and mobile phone shops and grocery stores.

Before Save the Children started working in Daulatdia brothel, there was no way for children to escape the brothel community or get an education. But now from the age of three they can go daily to a safe learning environment to play with their friends and start to learn to read and write.

Hundreds of children are now at primary school in the Daulatdia brothel community, and some of their parents have stopped working in the brothel and found work in the schools.

How education changed Rita’s life story

With the help of our supporters we have changed the lives of children like Rita. Rita is eight. Rita dreams of being becoming a doctor, but not long ago she faced a very different future. She was born in Daulatdia brothel. In a few years, without an education and with little prospect of employment, Rita would likely have been forced into prostitution like her mother.

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With the help of our supporters we were able to open a school where she is now getting an education. Rita has been attending the school for 5 years and can now read and write. Rita dreams of becoming a doctor. Thanks to donations from people like you Rita is on her way to fulfilling her dreams and now has the chance to live a very different life from that of her mother.

We need your support to keep this school open

The school in Daulatdia depends on our continued funding to remain open. Without the support of donations from people like you it is impossible to continue to help children like Rita. With your donations we can help:

202 children aged three to five are going to an early childhood education centre for three hours every day.
526 primary-school-aged children are going to school, where they are learning how to read and write and getting the education that will prevent their falling into a cycle of sex work.
200 children are regularly given meals.
21 adults have been retrained as teachers or child carers at the early childhood education centres.