BD Pathshala: Spreading Education Using Native Language
BD Pathshala – A dream online education platform for 250 million + people !
The campaign is about raising funds to build an Online Education System (from Primary level to University level including vocational education) for the people around the world who speak Bengali.
Set up Goal: $ 20,000
Providing Free Online World-Class Education to ensure Equal Opportunities for All
What is BD Pathshala?
BD Pathshala is an online learning platform on a mission to provide quality educational material for the Bengali speaking people around the world. The majority of the Bengali speaking communities are mainly based in Asia. We believe that by targeting the Bengali communities in this way we are able to provide a platform that can educate, empower and change the socio-economic status of the Bengali people in their respective countries. Perhaps then, they would feel more confident to participate in the mainstream societies around the world. Thus in turn, the Bengali people would educate and teach others about their own unique language and cultures.
Why in Bengali?
With at least 230 million native speakers around the World, Bangla or Bengali is the national language of Bangladesh and an official language of India. Bengali ranked the 7th language in terms of the number of people speaking any language. With the rate of growing population it has the potential to be number 6th surpassing Portuguese. It has numerous dialects, which show mainly phonological and lexical differences. However, Standard Bengali is used in educational and formal social settings and is understood by speakers of the various dialects. Recently, Bengali was included as one of the official languages of the UN- Peace Mission and it has been accepted as an official language in Sierra Leone (Africa). In future, we expect to see an increase in the Bengali speaking population around the World. Many Bengali speaking people live in Europe and the American region.
If BD Pathshala achieves its goal, then we
The campaign is about raising funds to build an Online Education System (from Primary level to University level including vocational education) for the people around the world who speak Bengali.
Set up Goal: $ 20,000
Providing Free Online World-Class Education to ensure Equal Opportunities for All
What is BD Pathshala?
BD Pathshala is an online learning platform on a mission to provide quality educational material for the Bengali speaking people around the world. The majority of the Bengali speaking communities are mainly based in Asia. We believe that by targeting the Bengali communities in this way we are able to provide a platform that can educate, empower and change the socio-economic status of the Bengali people in their respective countries. Perhaps then, they would feel more confident to participate in the mainstream societies around the world. Thus in turn, the Bengali people would educate and teach others about their own unique language and cultures.
Why in Bengali?
With at least 230 million native speakers around the World, Bangla or Bengali is the national language of Bangladesh and an official language of India. Bengali ranked the 7th language in terms of the number of people speaking any language. With the rate of growing population it has the potential to be number 6th surpassing Portuguese. It has numerous dialects, which show mainly phonological and lexical differences. However, Standard Bengali is used in educational and formal social settings and is understood by speakers of the various dialects. Recently, Bengali was included as one of the official languages of the UN- Peace Mission and it has been accepted as an official language in Sierra Leone (Africa). In future, we expect to see an increase in the Bengali speaking population around the World. Many Bengali speaking people live in Europe and the American region.
If BD Pathshala achieves its goal, then we