School, health, music, art and sport for 1400 children from Dhaka's slums

The concept

The brand Okaïdi and the Fond'actions IDKIDS have set up a social business with textile factories in Bangladesh to provide schooling for children in the slums. Organised with Professor Yunus' NGO, Grameen Shikkha, the project has enabled 1,200 children to attend school from first to fifth grade. Some of Okaïdi's suppliers, such as Texeurop, donated clothes with a small defect. These products were sold at low prices to social enterprises and the money was used to send 1200 children from the slums to school. This project started with the schooling of the children and then with a clinic. To develop the children's self-fulfilment, there were then music classes with 2 teachers, drawing competitions and sports events.

The action

Wahid, from Bangladesh joined the project in 2017 and is committed to the children to provide support, protection, education and recreation! There are 200 of them again in 2019 who have proudly shown their registration card for the final primary exam at the end of CM2. It has been 5 years since they started attending classes, in the classrooms set up by Fond'actions IDKIDS and its partners in Bangladesh. By the end of 2018, 88% of the first pupils to complete their primary school cycle had passed the exam and thus had the opportunity to continue to secondary school.