Supporting students in Bangladesh
Helping students succeed with supplementary books and essential school supplies.
Many students receive their main textbooks from school, but they still need guidebooks, notebooks, backpacks, pencils, and other everyday supplies. We help provide those essentials so students can focus on learning and doing their best.
A student-led initiative working with local schools and volunteers in Bangladesh
Support so far
See how much we have raised so far.
Every contribution helps us buy supplementary books, notebooks, pencils, backpacks, and other school supplies for students in Bangladesh.
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Why this work matters
School may provide textbooks, but families still pay for many learning essentials.
For families with limited income, the cost of notebooks, stationery, supplementary books, bags, and other supplies can make school harder. We focus on helping with those practical needs.
What we provide
We help students get the school materials they need.
From supplementary textbooks and notebooks to backpacks, pencils, and other basic supplies, we provide practical support that helps students learn with confidence.
How it works
A simple process that puts students first.
Teachers identify students
Teachers and school staff help identify students who need support.
We confirm what is needed
The school tells us which books and supplies will help each student most.
Our local team buys the supplies
Our volunteers purchase the approved materials locally whenever possible.
Students receive their materials
The supplies are delivered, recorded, and confirmed by the student or school.
Research and references
Sources used on this page
These sources were selected because they directly address household education costs, access to basic school materials, or programs that provided books and supplies to disadvantaged students in Bangladesh.
- World Bank — Bangladesh Education Sector Public Expenditure Review, uses Bangladesh Household Income and Expenditure Survey data to describe what families spend on fees, books and stationery, tutoring, transport, and other education costs.
- CREATE / University of Sussex — Poverty, Equity and Access to Education in Bangladesh, links poverty and lack of basic school equipment with irregular attendance, poor achievement, repetition, and other forms of educational exclusion.
- World Bank — Giving Bangladesh’s Poor Children a Chance at Education, describes the multi-part ROSC II program for disadvantaged children, including free books, school bags, uniforms, stipends, learning centers, and teacher support.
- Asian Development Bank — Improved Teaching Methods Help Secondary Students in Bangladesh Learn Better, shows how poverty-targeted secondary education support helped students purchase practical materials such as books, pencils, and notebooks.
- UNCDF — Low Income Lives: Education, a small household diary study showing that low-income families may still face costs for fees, stationery, supplementary textbooks, and tutoring even where government textbooks are provided.