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Electronic Management Information System (eMIS) launched in 3 districts

534 Blankets. Another Shikhon achievement.

Government officials and donor visited SHIKHON EPE center: On 28th January a high profile team comprised with government officials and donor (Chevron) representatives, visited SHIKHON Program in Sylhet. They visited one Early Primary Education (EPE) center-Al Islah SHIKHON Center in Tultikar Union of Sadar Upazilla, Sylhet under Sylhet division. Six government officials headed by Md. Abdul Majid, Registrar and Director General, Department of Cooperatives and 6 donor representatives headed by Ismail Chowdhury, Director-PGPA, Chevron were visited the center.

Article 31 of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child states that the child has a right to leisure, play, and participation in cultural and artistic activities. However, children living in urban slums of Bangladesh's capital city, Dhaka, face scarcity of space and time to have this right exercised.