Aparajeyo-Bangladesh has been supporting children and their parents to improve children’s nutritional well-being and promote their overall physical, mental, and developmental growth. In this regard, Aparajeyo-Bangladesh has developed a valuable partnership with Grameen Euglena, which provides nutritional support to disadvantaged children attending our slum-based Education Centers. As part of this initiative, high-energy biscuits are distributed among the children at the Education Centers. The biscuits are available in four flavors—Orange, Mango, Butter, and Milk—which are particularly appealing to children. Since we are currently unable to provide regular breakfast or lunch at these centers, the high-energy biscuits serve as an important mid-day snack and provide nutritional support during the children’s time at the centers. The children look forward to the biscuit distribution and respond with great enthusiasm and excitement when the distribution begins at their respective centers. This initiative not only provides them with additional nutritional support but also contributes to creating a positive and engaging learning environment. The support is also highly appreciated by the parents, many of whom face challenges in providing lunch for their children on a regular basis. A significant number of parents, particularly working mothers, have limited time to prepare meals before leaving for work. The availability of nutritious biscuits at the Education Centers therefore provides valuable support to both the children and their families, helping to ease some of the challenges associated with ensuring adequate nutrition during the day.
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.