The United Nations Fund for Children (Unicef) is spreading the light of education among children through a project in the Chittagong hill tracts.
Locals are spontaneously helping implement the project because they are finding it quite useful.
Healthcare is also being provided to the children and their mothers under the Integrated Community Development Project.
The Unicef and the Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board are jointly implementing the project para centre-wise in the hill tracts.
There are 169 para centres in Naikhangchhari upazila. Of them, there are 49 in Baishari Union, 42 in Sadar union, 41 in Ghumghum Union, 16 in Dousari Union and 21 in Sonachhari Union.
Selina Akhter, who works as a worker under the project, hails from Holudiashia village in the upazila’s Baishari union.
The project worker said she was enjoying her job under the project because “I like caring for the underprivileged children and teaching them and even love to work for their mothers.”
Upazila ICDP Project Manager, who looks after the para centres, said Ruhul Amin Helali said locals were benefiting much from this project because there were transparency and accountability in it.
Locals said it would help the disadvantaged people in the inaccessible hill tracts if the project was expanded in the inaccessible hill tracts. It would greatly benefit
State Minister for Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing said the light of education was fast spreading in the hill tracts because the Awami League government had taken many initiatives for it.