Daily Star publishes "Perspectives on the visions of Agami Education Foundation" by Dr. Nehreen Majed
A solid introductory article on Agami Education Foundation (AEF) by Dr. Nehreen Majed, Lead coordinator of Agami's Life is Fun (LiF) program, was published on Aug 12, 2021 issue of The Daily Star, a national daily from Dhaka, Bangladesh.
It’s time for the drum-roll! One of our volunteers, Dr. Nehreen Majed’s article “Perspectives on the visions of Agami Education Foundation” was featured in Daily Star, a prominent newspaper from Dhaka. Her article questions if underprivileged children can one day become change-makers and Agami Education Foundation’s vision to make these underprivileged students change-makers. She is a passionate educator and is willing to go the extra mile to make a difference in educating students.
Currently she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at University of Asia Pacific (UAP), Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is an active research and has received multiple in-house research grants at UAP working on different issues in Environmental Engineering field. Dr. Nehreen is a member of the self-assessment committee for quality assurance and actively participates in the implementation of the Outcome Based Education in her department. She also serves as a certified evaluator of Board of Accreditation of Engineering and Technical Education (BAETE), Bangladesh for on-site evaluation and accreditation of BSc Engineering Programs.
She is a passionate educator and contributes to several voluntary platforms including Agami Education Foundation acting as the Lead Co-ordinator of Life is Fun education program, Women Architects, Engineers and Planners Association in Bangladesh.
With great enthusiasm in Agile Scrum instruction being affiliated with Agile in Education USA, Dr. Nehreen is implementing the method in Engineering courses in Bangladesh. She aims to bring positive and innovative changes in the techniques of Engineering and Science based knowledge dissemination.
Dr. Nehreen’s article - “Perspectives on the visions of Agami Education Foundation” is also printed below in our blog.
A smile, a shine, a twinkling, a dream -- the divine innocence in the midst of uncalled for struggles -- for survival, for existence, for identity, to be heard, to be noticed. How far do their visions reach? For some, it's an apprehension what the life has to offer the following day and for others, every day's struggle is a source of strength to move on to the next unknown.
These remain the realities of more than half of the children in Bangladesh. Needless to say, underprivileged is the term used to describe these categories. When generalised, inevitable truths for them are to possess limited capacity to dare, short-lived dreams to wake up to terrible uncertainties, lack of confidence and courage to pursue their ambitions, and infrequent occurrences of desires to continue with their pursuit of knowledge. Could these future generations be ever envisioned to become changemakers? The answer lies on the community mindset who can leverage a little bit of their privileges to materialize the dreams of these underprivileged minds for a better future, through overcoming the barriers to education. True means of empowering these individuals would be to make themselves familiar with their own capability, to impart them with the reliance to feel competent enough and to make them inclined to welcome innovation, challenges and uphold quality.
This is the vision that echoes within Agami Education Foundation (AEF) that operates in Bangladesh as a sister concern of Agami Inc, USA. A major part of this initiative, so to speak, revolves around identifying the impediments towards learning environments, such as poor infrastructure, inadequate teaching learning aids and facilities, socio-economic stand point to acknowledge the importance of continuing education, lacking in incentives to improvise on the knowledge delivery, aversion and demotivation towards skill enhancement through technology integration, and other related parametres. Addressing each of the loopholes while targeting both quantitative and qualitative shifts in socio-economic, cultural and lifelong orientation certainly poses a demanding undertaking.
Notwithstanding the immense and overwhelming level of uncertainties towards reaching thousands of underprivileged mindsets, along with the community, AEF continues to impact education, health, and poverty through their enlightening content, skill development initiatives, infrastructural improvement, transformation of teaching and learning methods, awareness on hygiene and most importantly, the sensitisation. It is the very realisation, the acknowledgement of the incentives that will make these little minds to continue and to grow up to becoming better capable individuals coping with the adversities that the life has to offer.
For visions to envision a better future for the underprivileged, let us hand them over with the shine of hope to challenge back, let us show the way forward to nurture their innovative minds, let us create scope for them to flourish and create room for them to expand as holistic problem solvers, let us contribute in the making of focused and empowered individuals to be commended as the nation developers.
Dr. Nehreen Majed invited by Jamuna TV on World Environment Day to participate in a discussion about the current situation and restoration of Environment.
Dr. Nehreen Maked is the Lead Coordinator of the Life is Fun (LiF) program that aims to make science interesting and effective in teaching to young minds.
Children participating in a LiF sessions at schools - working on basic experiments.
For the World Environment Day, LiF team organizes Extempore speech Competition: Session 2" on "How can we save our environment" participated by Agami-supported Schools.