There’s no roof, no walls and no benches to sit on, but a school is radiant with a glow of hope.
Hashi Mukh school is a beacon of hope for many underprivileged pupils. The school is not a usual educational institution. It’s a sort of guardian. Outside of their regular schooling, this school guides the students through proper tutoring and provides them with tuition fees, food and uniform as required.
Since 2010 it has been educating hundreds of students who are underprivileged and unable to bear education costs, studying in various education institutions in the area, on Paribag street.
The students are slum-dwellers and street children.
“I want to be a doctor,” said Shathi Akter Sony a student at the Hashi Mukh school.
About her aims in life, she said, “I’m choosing the profession so I can provide medical assistance to insolvent people in the society.”
Another student of the school, bosom friend of Shathi Aktar, replied in the same manner.
Both of them have been studying at the school for three years.
Not only Shathi Akter and her friend, but there are 100 underprivileged children also dreaming to be doctors, engineers, self-reliant persons in various fields in the future.
Their eyes are full of hope and their nights are filled with beautiful dreams. They dream of better lives, a far cry for them years ago. The school has brought light to their hopes.
Now dozens of university students are bearing the torches to illuminate the lives of these children.
The school has been bringing smiles to the faces of hundreds of underprivileged pupils for half a decade.
Md Zahid Hasan, a participant at the school, hoped to be a teacher.
“I want to teach poor children in society as I have been taught in this school,” Zahid Hasan said about his aim in life.
Like Zahid, Md Imran Hossain Nazim hoped to be self-dependant in future, being an engineer so he can earn a good living.
About his objectives, the little boy spoke of his noble vision, “I want to build a school for underprivileged students spending the money I earn so they can study free of cost.”
Madeza Akter, daughter of late Kurat Ali, hoped to a government official.
Mazeda said, “I want to be a government official since I can serve the country being an honest bureaucrat”
After her father died, her mother hardly can manage food for their family. But the poverty could not stop her. She got CGPA-5 in class five last year. This year she has become first in class six in half yearly examinations at Dhanmondi High School.
The university students, who themselves are students, are educating the street students under the open sky to light up the future of the children.
“I am proud of to be a part of this noble journey,” said Kulsuma Akter Reshmi, one of the teachers at the school, and a second-year student in the Peace and Conflict Department of Dhaka University.
About the school she said, “This school is like a guardian. It not only provides educational facilities but it also offers stipends, books and notebooks, pens and pencils, uniforms and breakfast in the afternoon for the students within its capacity.”
Julkar Nain, a teacher at the school, feared dropout of students in the coming years due to shortage of financial support.
He named three girls facing financial crises as they could not pay their monthly fees to their respective schools.
Asked about the financial support, he said some former teachers at the school, a few irregular donors, and strangers, bear the costs of the school.
“But recently this has fallen significantly,” he added.
He hoped, “If financial support increases, dropouts may be prevented.”
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