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OBAT’s English School was established in Dhaka in 2008. A common and local cultural belief gives entitlement to only affluent people to send their children to an English medium school. However, OBAT Helpers is the first and only organization to have created this opportunity for the camp dwellers. The classes offered at the school are kindergarten to grade five and current number of students enrolled is 229.
In 2016, eleven of Dhaka School students got accepted by Queens School which is a prestigious private institution, to continue their education in the sixth grade. Before their acceptance, the Vice-Principal of the Queens School visited the Dhaka School to ensure that the students met their academic standards. They questioned them about concepts in Math and English. According to the Vice-Principal, “he never thought that the camp school kids could be so smart and well-behaved and could speak English.” In a later visit made by the OBAT staff to Queens School, they found that these young students had made a smooth transition and had adjusted well in their new school. In 2018, thirty-one students from OBAT’s English School got admitted into grade VI while sixteen students got admitted into grade VII at queens school.
We are deeply grateful to the Dhaka English School sponsors, Mr. and Mrs. Abdur Rahman Yaqub for their generosity in adopting this school.
