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GCE School Receives Disney Minnie Grant 2007 |
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Relief International is very excited to announce that one of the Global Connections Schools in Bangladesh has received the Disney Minnie Grant 2007. The Chowara Girls High School (http://www.connect-bangladesh.org/content/view/119/106/ ) located in a remote rural area in Comilla district has been awarded with the grant by the Youth Service America to implement a youth led community service project which is aimed at improving literacy in the Chowara village.
Relief International is very excited to announce that one of the Global Connections Schools in Bangladesh has received the Disney Minnie Grant 2007. The Chowara Girls High School (http://www.connect-bangladesh.org/content/view/119/106/ ) located in a remote rural area in Comilla district has been awarded with the grant by the Youth Service America to implement a youth led community service project which is aimed at improving literacy in the Chowara village.
The village has a population of 6000 and is bordered with Tripura, an Eastern Indian state.
With the grant, the Girls Power Club at the school will organize a month long literacy camp for the community members who cannot read and write. The camp will be conducted by the girls students of the school in April this year. In 2006, three projects from GCE school network in Bangladesh received the Disney Minnie Grant.
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