Light of Hope
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| Educational Project (Provides and promotes e-education) | |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Founder | Md. Waliullah Bhuiyan, Manager at BRAC |
| Headquarters | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
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Bangladesh |
| Website | lightofhopebd |
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| Type of project | Project for collecting books |
| Location | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Light of Hope is a project created by a team of some enthusiastic people who are working to make a change in the education system of Bangladesh. Aim of this organization is to provide e-learning facility to rural schools where there is no electricity. They provide Laptops, Projectors, Audio Visual e-learning materials, Solar system etc. to those schools which are situated in remote area where there is no electricity or enough facilities for proper education. They also provide books and essential education materials to the students of those remote areas. The founder of this project is Md. Waliullah Bhuiyan,(Manager, BRAC). Mr. Nasimul Islam Maruf and Md. Asaduzzaman Shoeb co-founded this project. They both are the assistant professor of Electric and Electronics at AIUB. Now this project has almost 100 active members working on it. There are also some other sub-projects running under this project.
Back in 2009, Md. Waliullah Bhuiyan, founder of Light of Hope, was working on a rural project with BRAC in a small village of Patuakhali. In that village, they were talking with a group of women about how they make money for living. As there was no electricity on that 'Chor' area, some people from local market developed solar energy for electricity. The village people started going to the local market and charge their cell phones with exchange of an amount of money. Electricity providers were making profit out of this as well as using it for their own works. So, the women of that area used the idea as it could help them to earn some extra money. Ambiya Khatun was the pioneer of this idea. She first applied that idea in practical. She convinced her husband who was a rickshaw puller, to start this business. Somehow that poor couple managed the money and bought a solar system from Grameen Shakti on monthly installment and set their business up. The business went successful and they made a good profit out of this. Watching them doing business successfully, many people got involved into this business and the area was being developed gradually. Md. Waliullah Bhuiyan was inspired by this improvement. Md. Waliullah Bhuiyan made the plan of this project and shared it with his two friends Nasimul Islam Maruf and Md. Asaduzzaman Shoeb. They liked the plan and designed the project. But there was financial problem. They did not have enough money to start the project and no one was agreed to sponsor it. So, they were waiting for an opportunity to start their project.
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