Eight Bangladeshi school students have attended a 10-day International Smart Holidays camp in Russia.
This camp was organised under “Rosatom School” project in the serene nature of Penza region of Central Russia, 600 km South East from Moscow.
Russian Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom was one of the contributors of the camp, said a press release.
Other participants were from Russia, Vietnam, Turkey, South Africa, Egypt, Kenya and Ghana.
During the camp the children spent time developing new skills in art and sports, learning about Russian culture and celebrating traditional Russian Maslenitsa week, a traditional Russian festival to say good bye to winter.
Adrija Sangsthita Prithibi, a class seven student of Birsrestho Noor Mohammad Public School in Dhaka, was one of the participants of the camp.
After returning from Russia, she said, the camp was a unique platform to make friends with children from other nations and culture, exchange views and ideas with them.
“Just a 10-days camp helped me believing in myself and my capabilities. I came out with a new vision,” said Adrija Sangsthita Prithibi.
I also learnt how to live independently away from own family,” she added.
Aranyo Rishi Chowdhury, another participant and class VI Jupiter student of S.F.X Greenherald International School, also took part in the camp.
She said, “Every single day at the camp was amazing, filled with playing, dancing, socialising with people of different cultures, group projects and the voices of dozens of children.”
“It helped me discover new things, such as new friends, the Russian winter, new traditions of different nations," she said.
Andrey Shevlyakov, CEO Rosatom South Asia, said Rosatom is very happy to make this contribution to learning experience of Bangladeshi children.
The participants were immersed in multilingual educational and entertainment events; including theatre performance, curate personal exhibitions, creating educational quests, learning modern and Russian folk dances.