VIDEO: Venture Proposal for the newly announced Bangladesh School

Circle of Women recently announced the approved Project Panchacrosi, which is extremely exciting! The proposed project is to build a secondary school for 700 girls in the village of Panchacrosi, outside the town of Ullampara in the Sirajganj District. According to UNESCO, global statistics of education in Bangladesh are as follows: 74% of females attend primary school; however, this number plummets to 29% for girls that attend secondary school (which is less than half the rate for boys). In higher secondary and higher education the numbers worsen: only 2.5% of girls attend these institutions.

The project is being spearheaded by Farah Faisal, a Harvard member who has family in Bangladesh.

An executive committee will be providing on the ground oversight of the project and help Circle of Women stay on track to complete the school by January 2012.

For their Social Entrepreneurship class at Princeton, several Circle of Women officers put together a video for a revenue-generating venture that could be implementing with Project Panchacrosi. This is just one viable option to help Circle of Women towards it's goal of sustainability.

Link to Circle of Women Video Proposal