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For Global Youth Service Day 2006, students of the Siraj uddin Sarker
Vidyaneketon in Tongi decided to plant trees on their school
campus. Working with the school's Agricultural Studies teacher,
they selected rapidly growing trees that would provide shade and
stabilize the soil in the school's court yard.
Students at the Safi Uddin Sarker Academy and College organized an oral
polio vaccination program for community children at their school in
Tongi as part of their Global Youth Service Day celebration.
Student volunteers, working with medical supervision, administered the
vaccine to younger children and updated their record of
vaccination. Polio cases worldwide have declined markedly in the
last three decades thanks to vaccination programs like this one.
However, there were reports of wild-type polio in Bangladesh within the
last year, causing international health organizations to step up
efforts here.
The students of Safiuddin Sarker Academy & College, Tongi, surveyed
the area around school and found identified sources of
garbage. They wrote a report and emailed it to Bangladeshi
newspapers and
youth magazines to raise awareness about pollution and conserving the
environment.
The students
of Kala Kakali High School, Chittagong, and the Safi Uddin Sarker
Academy and College in Tongi implemented the World
Map Project. In this project, student volunteers draw a huge world map
on the classroom wall
and paint each country with different colors. When the map is
dry, they then paint in the country names in Bangla and English.
The map remains after GYSD as a permanent reference tool for the school
and serves to remind everyone that we're all on the same
planet. Citizenship & Youth Philanthropy Program and has been made possible with major funding from the United States State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Global Catalyst Foundation.