Rotary International focuses on nine major causes: Promoting peace, Fighting disease, Providing clean water, sanitation and hygene, Saving mothers and children, Supporting education, Growing local economies and Protecting the environment. Withing this mantle Rotary has worked for many years to promote programs for supporting education. The following videos show Rotarians engaged in these programs.
Momtaz Chowdhury, of the Rotary Club of Dhaka Mavericks, Bangladesh, is vice president of the Institution for Shelter, Training, and Development of Underprivileged Girls (DMNAPK), which provides housing, food, and education for girls through secondary school. The organization offers vocational training and, when the girls graduate, job placement assistance. Chowdhury believes that instilling leadership and entrepreneurial skills in girls benefits them and their communities, which is why she works with banks to provide flexible loans for female entrepreneurs. Chowdhury is one of Rotary’s six People of Action: Champions of Girls Empowerment 2022 awardees.