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CODEC is an inheritor of DANIDA Bangladesh derived from couple of project intervention explicitly DANIDA Boat Building Project and Boat Rental Scheme. CODEC has been working as a people centered development organization from 01 October 1985 according to recommendation of Government of Bangladesh (GoB) and the Royal Danish Embassy. From the beginning of its development intervention, CODEC started its activities only with the fisherfolk communities (seven villages) in Chittagong but over the period CODEC now extended its working area with other disadvantaged coastal communities along with the fisherfolk
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CODEC consider lack of education is one of the vital barriers to the socio-economic and political development of underprivileged communities at the coastal belt of Bangladesh since its inception. Education is a vital weapon that can be used to change the society in a very systematic manner. That’s why for the last 35 years, CODEC is putting its efforts as highest priority in education sector keeping pace with government policies and SDG’.
CODEC started children education from the very beginning of the year January 1986. The first initiative was the Early Childhood Development (ECD) in ‘Jaladas’ villages ( Fishing communities) of Chittagong and gradually on the basis of actual need; the activity was extended along the coastal villages of Chittagong, Laxmipur, Patuakhali & Barguna. In the meantime, DANIDA and Denmark Radio awarded CODEC with Children’s Calendar Fund in the year of 1989 especially for supporting education and training to the coastal fisher-folk children.
CODEC was awarded with Chand Sultana Award by Ahsania Mission, for the year of 2003 for the primer which was developed by CODEC to educating adult people in the field of basic reading, writing and small calculation within only 120 days.
In this publication the enlightened journey of CODEC Education programme has been portaryed. Here we can see a concise journey of education initiatives of CODEC in the last 35 years. Overall objectives, education strategies, numbers of students and scholarships under various innovative programmes, experience and learning in term of executing education programmes time to time, challenges we have faced described in this publication too.
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