Amarok Society

Amarok Society operates schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Our schools are different from other schools in a couple of ways. The main difference is this: while our Mothers of Intention programme is for the purpose of bringing education to children too poor for school, our schools are not for children - they are for mothers who then, every day, tea... ch neighbourhood children what they have learned. The other significant difference is that we target the poorest children in the urban slums rather than in villages. The forbidding urban slums are to where many of the poorest families migrate in their search for employment - employment for both parents and children. Most find none, beyond circumstances no better than slavery. Most families find moving from village to city slum means their quality of life takes a nose dive, with far higher air pollution, noise pollution, far more crowded living situation with tiny hovel in which to live, and often it involves a separation from extended family and greater social isolation, etc. Those then born into slums lack the community advantages of even the poorest villages.Read More