Grameen Euglena

Nutrition Program for The Children: Euglena Nutrition Biscuits

Aparajeyo-Bangladesh has been supporting the children and their parent to enhance their children’s nutritional status both it ensures the physical, mental, development. To this relation Aparajeyo has a potential partnership with Grameen Euglena who support our disadvantaged children of Slum based Education Center- These Biscuits contains with four flavor Orange,Mango, Butter and Milk. The flavors are favorite to the children. Since we are unable to provide any breakfast or lunch in these Slum Education Centers. This high energy Biscuits ensures the lunch time support like mid-day snacks for the childrens. The Childrens gets very excited and happy when the biscuit distribution starts at their center. The parents are also at peace since many of them are unable to provide lunch to their children. This is because most of them are working mothers, they do not get enough time to cook. They are always in a rush to go to their work place.

Our immediate local community people are also very happy to see that, they are having these biscuits at the lunch time. They are happy because the served the biscuits provided by Euglena to Aparajeyo-Bangladesh for the children are properly distributed. No misuse or mismanagement occurred as yet related to the biscuit’s distributions.

“Our children look healthy because their nutrition states are at the reasonable level. “

Chairman
Board of director
Prof. Dr. Mokbul-E-Khoda
Aparajeyo-Bangladesh

Euglena is an organization
Professor Muhammad Yunus has developed a new concept of Social Business, which is a cause driven business. In Social Business, the investor/owners can gradually recoup the money invested but cannot take any dividend.

On the basis of that idea, Mr. Yukoh Satake took an initiative to form a joint venture company which is known as Grameen euglena. Grameen euglena is a joint venture established by euglena Co., Ltd. and Grameen Krishi Foundation. euglena Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company established in 2005, aiming to solve malnutrition problems by microalgae Euglena. Euglena contains 59 different nutrients that are found in vegetables, meats, as well as fish. It can be used as a food source for the human being and also as a feed of pets and culture fish.

In 2015 Aparajeyo-Bangladesh and Grameen Euglena has signed an agreement to provide Euglena Nutrition Biscuits to the disadvantaged children of Aparajeyo-Bangladesh who are enrolled in the Slum Education Center's in Dhaka. This year they are awarded by the Japanese Government for their noble contribution to improve the nutrition static of disadvantaged children of Aparajeyo-Bangladesh. Which basically hit the SDG goal 1-no poverty, 2-zero hunger specially 3-Good Health and Wellbeing. Aparajeyo-Bangladesh always desires good and loves from partnership with Grameen Euglena.

Today, 30 May 2022, the senior management team of Aparajeyo-Bangladesh met with them at Grameen Euglena's office and in this meeting Euglena Japan's senior management team virtually joined, in this meeting also discussed in detail the partnership between Aparajeyo-Bangladesh and Euglena.