Bishwo Shahitto Kendro in association with bKash Limited has expanded its book reading programme at Azimpur Government Girls School and College on Thursday.
Professor Abdullah Abu Sayeed, founder and chief executive of Bishwo Shahitto Kendro, Major General (retd) Sheikh Md Monirul Islam, chief external & corporate affairs officer of bKash Limited and noted children’s writer Ali Imam inaugurated the book reading programme through handing over books to the students.
Hasibur Rahman, principal of the school, was also present at the program held at the school Auditorium.
bKash, the leading mobile financial service provider in the country, has been supporting the ‘Nationwide Enrichment (Book Reading) Programme’ of Bishwo Shahitto Kendro since 2014 and provided around 178, 000 books to the programme.
Bishwo Shahitto Kendro has been carrying out various outreach programmes for school and college students in the last 38 years with a dream of building an enlightened society.
The nationwide enrichment programme (Book Reading) is the most prominent program of the organisation with raging success.
Currently, the book reading programme covers around 200,000 students of 2,000 educational institutions across the country.
bKash believes in the philosophy of improving the lives of the common mass by providing mobile financial services at an affordable cost, in most secured and convenient way. The focus is to bring the unbanked population into formal financial activities to help the economy of Bangladesh at large.
In its persistent effort to see the infusion of ‘Enlightenment’ and ‘Development’, bKash would continue to support the initiative of ‘Book Distribution’ of BishwoShahittoKendro in the years to come.
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