Education
A lifetime love of learning starts early! Education provides children with the tools to reach their full potential
An all girls class at YMO Jaganathpur Academy. All the stationery required is provided.
YMO Academy classroom. Essential IT Skills are taught for a modern digital world.
YMO Academies
YMO Trust is dedicated to preventing child labour, advancing education and work skills for the benefit of all. We assist in the provision of education facilities in the interest of social welfare with the objective of improving the student’s and their family’s condition of life for generations to come. UNICEF and local knowledge dictates that the problem is vast across the developing world.
Children were not getting an education and dropping out of school because they couldn’t afford the government provided school fees amongst many other things. YMO Trust provides the funding for this schooling and additional booster classes with talented and inspirational teachers. It also provides school provisions like textbooks and stationery so that the children can thrive in their academic pursuit.
Since inception in 2014, the Trust has successfully set up two academies in Sylhet district of Bangladesh, the first at Jaganathpur and the second at Galopganj. There are approximately 75 children currently attending them for booster classes. Our academies provide classes in English, Maths and Bengali and we also provide our students with access to computers, something these children would not have the means to access otherwise.
In 2019, 75 students are attending booster classes. We have capacity to teach and support a maximum of 130 students through our academies.
Children ages attending the booster classes range from 11-16 years.
YMO Graduation ceremony. Nothing is more satisfying then seeing the happiness in the children’s sense of achievement.
Graduation
In Bangladesh the schooling system is such that if the child doesn’t pass the end of year exams they do not proceed to the next class year. Therefore YMO Trust provides all the possible support so that the child can progress to year 10 before they then go onto college or employment. In our first graduation class year 10 in 2019 we had a 100% pass rate.
YMO Trust support the children to apply for college or employment. As of 2019, YMO Trust had its first graduating class of 29 students, 24 have gone on to college, with 4 having secured employment.
YMO Student in her home village
How does YMO identify the children at risk they support
YMO Trust staff scout local communities and villages, liaising with schools and other charities to identify children at risk. The efforts are concentrated in areas of deprivation, seeking families that could not afford to send their children to school. Poverty introduces barriers like school fees, transport, uniform, textbooks, school stationery and in some cases, the urgent need for the child to earn. YMO Trust vets these applications, interviewing the families, confirming their needs and financial position and, where successful, puts in place a plan to get the children enrolled into the state school system and supplementing their education with additional learning from our academies. The work of YMO Trust has spread by word of mouth in villages, collaborative scouting with other charitable bodies and local government help.
The children are at the core of everything that YMO Trust does. Learn more about their individual stories….