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Every child has right to dream: Clinton
Impressed by unrelenting struggles for eradicating poverty and illiteracy of a young nation. US President Bill Clinton yesterday said no one should believe that pauperism is the destiny, people have to remain poor and their cliildren cannot learn, reports UNB.
"Every child of this world should be given the chance to dream and live in those dreams." Clinton told villagers brought from Joypura to the US Embassy in the city to share their tales of improving their lifestyles by using microcredits.
The US-President pledged to do "what I can do to be a good partner and friend of Bangladesh."
Just hours before starting his daylong trip to Bangladesh, the White House scrubbed a 32-kllometre side trip to the village of Joypura in Dhamrai thana on advice of the Secret Service. It cited a "credible" threat of danger from flying over unguarded forests and rice paddies to the hamlet, where microfinance worked wonder.
The 90-minute visit was billed as an opportunity to visit a BRAC school and Grameen Bank's micro-credit lending operations that make Small, targeted loans to entrepreneurs
and small businesses.
Clinton was not there in Joypura to see those programmes and to chat with the villagers under a century-old Banyan tree as was originally scheduled, but the villagers were brought to Dhaka to see the President.
"intelligence, ability and human spirit are equally distributed in the region. One must have a chance, every little boy and girl should be given the chance," said the US President.
The President, accompanied by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, spent nearly two hours among the Joypura inhabitants in the US mission compound. Hasina briefed him on her government's Asrayan project for providing homes to the homeless people.
A total of 16,000 families have been rehabilitated under this poverty programme, the prime minister said expressing the determination to make sure that none remains homeless In the country.
President Clinton also talked to the students of a BRAC school and observed the operation of Grameen bank demonstrated before him. Clinton heard the experiences of the micro-credit beneficiaries in pres-
ence of two NGO kingpins — Grameen founder Prof Muhammad Yunus and BRAC chief Fazle Hossain Abed.
There arc more than 34.000 one-room, one-teacher and 33-student BRAC schools across the country providing basic education to 1.1 million children. 66 per cent of them girls. BRAC officials said.
The U.S President said he would tell his fellow Americans as well as the world t^at people of Bangladesh are a good investment in the future. It has a Grameen Bank with 2.4mllllon borrowers in 39.000 villages. 94 per cent of them are women, and the repayment rate is 98 per cent.
He thanked the government for taking out 9.000 children from garment Industry and putting them In ILO and USA-supported schools In a comprehensive drive for eliminating child labour.
Clinton committed several million dollars for 30,000 Bangladesh children to move from work to schools, for the health insurance of rural women under ILO and Grameen projects, and solar energy projects to provide cheap and clean power to villagers.