Duhuli Chankharpara Kajoli Model Shishu Shikkha Center

Center Code: 0039
Name of the Center: Duhuli Chankharpara Kajoli Model Shishu Shikkha Center
Location of the Center: Village: Duhuli Chankharpur, Post Office: Duhuli Shantinagar, Upzila & District: Nilphamari, Division: Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
Name of the teacher: Mrs: Mina Rani
Year of establishment: January 2007
Number of graduates: 84
Number of graduates continuing in primary Schools: 84
Current students: 26
Source of teacher's remuneration: The guardians pay 10/20 Taka per month. Teacher gets Taka 200/250 on an average.
Space for the Center: The Center is held in the house of a local person.
Management of the Center: Guardians Committee looks after the Center. Efforts are being made to develop community based organization whose main activity will be to run the Center without outside help.
Midday Meal System: Each mother provides food to all the children once a month. There were irregularities in providing midday meals at the beginning but the situation stabilized after discussions at the annual meeting of teachers' in Kajoli in February 2009 and subsequent community mobilization.