The project in Bangladesh
Light of Hope plan to open a chapter in Bangladesh in 2010. Our business partner Syed Mizanur Rahman will be in charge of this office.
Syed was born in 1978 in the village Chalitada, Thana, Palashbair in the Gaibandha districs in Bangladesh. It is a very small village. The family was poor, his father worked as a school teacher and his mother was a house wife. They have a large family and the father was the only one bringing in money to support them. Syed has 4 brothers and 3 sisters.
He got his primary education in Photapur Durgapur Primary School from 1983 to 1987. The school had 5 teachers, 175 students and 35 students in his class. He then went to high school at Palash S.M. Pilot High School where his father was working.
From 1994 he went to to Palashbari Government College and studied science. He got his Bachelor`s Degree from National University of Bangladesh. In 2001 he got his Master`s Degree at the same university. Now he works as a senior officer in the commercial section at Spintex Technology Limited.Syed knows what it is like to grow up in poverty. Now he wants to do something to help the present and next generation in his home country Bangladesh. Syed Mizanur Rahman lives with his wife Shafia Siddique. They have a baby daughter together named Syeda Shadia Siddikah.
