Newsletter
Issue - August 2023
Dear Bangladeshi Friends, Greetings from Japan. I know you are having fun and learning hard every day at school. The sight of you learning a lot from your teachers gives me a lot of energy. So I am grateful to you. By the way, what is your dream? Dreams expand the world of your mind and become the power to move forward in life. Many Japanese friends are rooting for you. Please remember us and do your best to make your dreams come true. And please come visit Japan someday.May God bless and protect you......
親愛なるバングラデシュのみんなへ、日本から挨拶します。BDPの生徒の皆さんは毎日楽しんで、またお勉強を頑張っていますね。皆さんが学校で先生方からたくさん学んでいる様子は私にたくさんの元気をくれます。皆さんの存在に心から感謝です。皆さんの将来の夢はなんですか？夢というのは皆さんの視野を広げて、人生を前に進むための力となります。日本のたくさんの人々が、皆さんを応援しています。ぜひ私たちのことも覚えて、皆さんの夢を実現させてください。また機会があればぜひ日本にもきてください。神様の守りと祝福が皆さんの上にありますように。....
Issue - July 2023
In 1955, I was born as the first son of Tsuneyoshi and Ruth Aratani. My father was a Christian pastor for the small church in the western part of Japan. I entered Doshisha Univ. in Kyoto to study theology in 1975. After my bachelor degree from Doshisha, I moved to California to continue my study at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley California.....
「私は1955年に荒谷恒喜とルツの長男として生まれました。私の父は西日本にある小さなキリスト教の教会の牧師でした。私は1975年に同志社大学に神学を学ぶために入学しました。学部卒業後にはカリフォルニア州に移住し、バークレーにて太平洋宗教学校にて学びました。神学の修士号を取得した後、いくつかの日系アメリカ人の会衆が集まるユナイテッド・メソジスト教会にて仕えました。 これらの教会にて奉仕をする中で、東南アジアからきた移民やエスニックマイノリティの人々人権活動に活発に参加をしました。1997年、アメリカでの17年間での生活を終えて妻の暁世、当時6歳だった息子の萌と2歳だった娘と共に日本に帰国しました。....
Issue - June 2023
IOn June 13th 2023, there was a speech competition on Sakichi Toyoda’s life history among the students of grades 4 and 5 of BDP primary schools. This speech competition was arranged by Basic Development Partners (Organizer), Asia Christian Education Fund of Japan (Co-Organizer) and Kazuko Bhuiyan Trust (Co-Organizer). Five finalist competitors were selected for the grand finale. There was a judge’s panel consisting of 5 members from five different organizations (both national and international)....
Issue - May 2023
I came to know about Hear Project through an appeal from Dr Meena Malakar in 1992 through ACEF (Asian Christian Education Fund). Later we encountered each other (me and Dr Malakar), in 1993. I was a teacher at the Japan Oral School for the Deaf, and Dr Malakar came to know about it. She invited me to Bangladesh to see the Hear Program, I was excited and glad. This was the beginning of a long-lasting friendship between me and the Hear Program which...
Issue - April 2023
I have come to Bangladesh for the first time as a JOCS(Japan Overseas Christian Medical Cooperative Service) worker in January 1983. After 4 month-language-training I have sent to Gournadi to work with a local NGO(Human Development Program HDP) as a public health nurse, to start a TB program, nutrition program and training program for health volunteers. First, of course, I struggled with language, moreover, the Barisal dialect was quite difficult for me......
Issue - March 2023
I am very much glad to know that BDP has started publishing its monthly newsletter and it helps to know the current activities of BDP not only for us but for other stakeholders in society who have not known very much about BDP yet. Asian Christian Education Fund (ACEF) of Japan has been working with BDP since 1990 as a partner organization.....
Issue - February 2023
It gives me great pleasure to inform you that Basic Development Partners (BDP) has been publishing monthly electronics newsletters since October, 2022 in both English and Japanese language. This is an excellent opportunity to inform you of the present activities/situation of BDP and I expect your kind cooperation towards all BDP activities. We feel proud of them. BDP is also working for deaf and dumb children by providing proper test for detecting hearing disability and providing them with hearing aid and speech therapy.Soon afterwards they are integrate into normal school activity. BDP also operates vocational school for drop-out children so that they Can enter the job market as a skilled workers. Basic Development Partners (BDP) started working in 1992 with the leadership of Dr. (Mrs.) Mina Malakar.
Issue - January 2023
Basic Development Partners (BDP) は、1992年から初等教育プロジェクトに取り組んでおり、プロジェクト開始当時、公立小学校の数は限られており、特に農村部で不足していました。そのため、BDPは、5つの地域（ダッカ県、ジャマルプール県、ガジプール県、ボリシャル県、ネトロコナ県）の農村部・スラム街にいくつかの小学校を設立しました。 現在、バングラデシュ政府は、教育セクターを最優先事項に位置付け、初等教育への予算配分を大幅に増やしています。しかしながら、それでも公立小学校に十分にアクセスできない農村地域もあり、通学に時間がかかると、女の子たちの保護者は、通学を奨励しなくなっていきます。そこから、児童婚・早婚などに発展していくこともあります。
Basic Development Partners (BDP) working on children’s primary education since 1992. At that very moment, government primary schools were insufficient, especially in remote villages. BDP established a few primary schools in 5 districts. They are Jamalpur, Barishal, Gazipur, Netrokona, and slum areas in Mirpur, Dhaka. Presently, education is the top priority and the government increased much allocation of budget to primary education but still, there are some villages in our working areas where public schools are not sufficient and on the other hand, parent do not encourage their daughters to go to schools which are fur distance from their house because of social security.
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