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Rabiul Ajaharul, passed the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exam 2016 with GPA-5.00. This is the top grade in

Bangladesh education system. Rabiul has been under DCI sponsorship program since 2006. His father is a rickshaw

van puller and mother is a day laborer. He also has a brother and a sister. So it was not possible for his parents to feed

five family member and continue the education of Rabiul. In spite of extreme poverty, he could continue his education

because of sponsorship support over the years. DCI is grateful to the sponsors for supporting this child and many other

children like him. Like Ajaharul there are 117 Sun Child who have passed the SSC exam who have been getting support

from the year 2006. It was possible only for your support through DCI. Thank You.

Poverty could not stop him...

DISTRESSED CHILDREN & INFANTS INTERNATIONAL

Newsletter May 2016

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There are 157 underprivileged children who received free health check-up opportunity in the month of May.

DCI project office organize three health camps in project office and two supported primary school on the 9th,

16th and 30th of May. 20 children received free medicine. 7 children were referred to upazilla hospital for bet-

ter treatment.

Health check-up for underprivileged children

About 1110 children of SCSP have received after-school tutoring & special coaching support in May, 2016.

Sponsored children are devided into groups under 95 tutors. Following are the activities of each group,

Home work help

Special counseling for slow learners

Drawing & General knowledge - based on their school text book

Health & Hygiene

Monthly meetings with mothers

Tutoring group information at a glance

Area Total Group Total Tutors Total Children

Patuakhali 88 88 918

Feni Children are going in special coaching group with school teacher 43

Nilphamari 06 06 85

Habiganj 55 Children are going in special coaching group with school teacher

Dhaka 01 01 09

Total SCSP 95 95 1110

After School Tutoring

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Our Family Support Program (FSP) is active in SCSP project areas supporting 790 mothers, who

have been divided into 30 small groups. Every week they meet to discuss their essential needs, fa-

cilitated by DCI officers. The attendance rate at these meetings during the month of May was 58%.

In the month of May the following topics have discussed in the meeting-

1. Preparation for half yearly exam.

2. Attendance in School and Coaching

3. Personal Hygiene.

Family Support Program (FSP)

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The girls of the home received theirt 1st term examination results and obtained excellent GPA. The home

tutors continue to help the girls with their daily schoolwork and the girls are working very hard in their stud-

ies to obtain good marks. They have enjoyed summer vacation this month and again they have started

their school. The girls of Bharateswari Homes are taking 1st term examination this month. Their prepara-

tion is very good.

Children of the SunChild Home, DCI Orphanage

NGO Association and Dhaka DC Office jointly arranged a two day fair on the premise of Bangladesh

Shishu Academy. State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki inaugurated the

event, The DG of NGO Affairs Bureau Asadul Islam attended as the guest of honor. There were 40 stalls

from 40 NGOs in the fair. Rights and Sight for Children (RSC), DCI’s implementing partner in Bangladesh

was a participant at the fair. All the guests visited the stall and were very impressed to know the programs

and activities of DCI-RSC. Cultural programs were held on both of the days. The girls of Sun Child Home

performed two beautiful dances before the guests.

Girls performed at Dhaka NGO Fair: May 2016

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Children of DCI orphanage are doing well. In addition to a home and good meals we ensure all the children are enrolled in school for basic education, they have home tutors to help them with studies, they also have teachers for extracurricular activities like singing, dancing, drawing. We also arrange for field trips/outing so they have exposure to cultural and social activities. In June, the children were taken to field trips to the ‘Shishu Mela’ at Shyamoli, Dhaka on three different days in three groups. Shishu Mela is a an amusement park for children. The trips are sponsored by Dr. Beverly Questad, USA. She also sponsored Ifter and dinner for the girls. The girls enjoyed the day by playing, enjoying different rides

and taking special snacks. In the evening the girls were taken to the City Park Chinese Restaurant, where they ate Ifter and special dinner. We are very grateful to Dr. Beverly Quested, USA for her continuous support for the children of the orphanage.

Field trip to local children park

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Free Specialist services at DCI health clinic, Kallayanpur

On May 15, 2016 a free health camp was held at DCI health clinic at Kallyanpur Porabari slum in memory of Sreejon Lala. Sreejon, winner of DCI youth volunteer leadership award in 2015, although gone from our midst has left a mark by his devotion to humanitarian work. DCI North Dakora Chapter members supported this camp. The purpose of the camp was to provide specialist service for slum dwellers. 223 slum dwellers got free treat-ment and medicines from this camp. 87 Pediatric patients, 43 Medicine patients, 47 Cardiac patients, and 45 Gynae patientswere provided treatment. Several renowned specialist doctors rendered free service for the event. They were Cardiologist Dr. S.C Dhar, Professor (Retd.) Chittagong Medical College Hospital & Chief Cardiologist Chittagong Medical Center, Dr. Anjana Dutta, Gynecologist, Chief Medical Officer (Retd.), Chitta-gong Port Authority & Medical Advisor, IDF, and Dr. Md. Akter Hossan Masud, Registrar, ICU, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital. DCI clinic doctors Dr. Tasnuva Noman Raimi, Dr. Shekh Moinul Khokon, Dr. Sabikun Na-har and Dr. Sakhawat assisted the doctors. DCI North Dakota Chapter, USA representative & uncle of Late. Sreejon Lala Engr. Pradip Kumar Dutta and his wife, Mr. Abu Daud, Assistant Commissioner of TAX, Chittagong, Ms. Salma Qadir, CEO of RSC and Co-ordinator of DCI, Bangladesh, Mr. Jamal Abdun Nasher (Romel), Program Manager and other officials attend-ed in this event.

Dr. S.C Dhar Dr. Anjana Dutta Dr. Md. Akter Hossan Masud

Dr. Shekh Moinul Khokon Providing medicines Engr. Pradip Kumar Dutta and his wife Dr.

Anjana Dutta with DCI-RSC officials

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Honorable Ward Counselor is inaugu-rating the free eye screening camp

Children are collecting slip for getting treatment

Doctors are providing eye treatment

Eye Camp- May 30, 2016

A Free Eye Camp for underprivileged people was organized in memory of Late. Sreejon Lala, on May 30,

2016 at Ward No.-18, UCEP School, Chotobongram, Shalbagan, Rajshahi City, Bangladesh with the objec-

tives of preventing and treating vision loss among underprivileged.

In this eye camp, doctors screened 441 patients. Specialist doctors examined and found eye problems in 382

patients. Among them 168 patients need eye glasses, 214 patients need medicines. 12 patients were referred

to eye hospital for more pathological tests. We will provide medicines, eye glasses and other treatment to the

patients. A team of doctor and technicians from Lions Eye Hospital, Rajshahi helped us organizethis eye

camp.

The Camp was inaugurated by 18 no Ward Counselor Mr. Monir Hossain. Mr. Romel (Program Manager),

and Mr. Mohasin (Health Assistant) of DCI health program, DCI North Dakota Chapter representative Ms.

Japan Rahman, Rupantar Chairman Mr. Mahfuzur Rahman, Executive Director Mr. Amirul Islam & Director

Finance Mr. J. A. Rashel, the Vice President of Lions Eye Hospital, Rajshahi Mr. Mokhlesur Rahman Shah.

Headmaster of UCEP School, and Mr. Md. Abdullah Al Kamal were present and helped with overall arrange-

ments.

Case Study: Nijhum Akter Nijhum Akter, a three old child living in kallayanpur slum had been Suffering from common cold and Breathlessness for a long time. The Medical Officer at the DCI health center connected her to US specialist doctor through Telemedicine service. After treatment, Nijhum has now completely recovered from illness. Nijhum’ parents are very grateful to DCI.

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Update of DCI Pre-School

DCI established its pre-school for slum children of Kallyanpur Porabari Slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh during

May 2013. The school currently provides early education support for 50 children. Besides learning alphabets

and numbers they have a number of extra curricular activities like– playing with toys & puzzles, drawing,

reciting poems & rhymes, watching Television etc. In addition to preparing the children for school, the pre-

school allows working mothers of the slum to leave their child at a safe place instead of running around in the

streets which is very common in these areas.