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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.

USAID’s Reading Enhancement for Advancing Development (READ) program goes through a program review after each quarter of its operation which is titled as ‘Quarterly Progress Review & Learning Workshop (QPR&LW)’.

To promote good governance, one of the priorities for Save the Children is to ensure that the government listens to children’s views and prioritises child rights in public decisions, including resource decisions.