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Citi launches twin projects to help underprivileged children

Star Business Report
CITIBANK NA yesterday launched two community projects in the capital, aiming to improve the lives of about 800
underprivileged children.
Michael Zink, head of Asean and Citi country officer for Singapore, unveiled the projects at the city’s Sonargaon Hotel, as part of the bank's corporate social responsibility endeavours.
For one of the projects, Citi Bangladesh has partnered with Underprivileged Children's Education Program (UCEP) to launch the Citi-UCEP Pre-technical Education Project.
The project will spend a $30,000 fund to provide pre-tech education to 346 underprivileged children in the age group of 14 to 16 years for a
period of six months.
The children will gain financial literacy, practical mathematics and communicative English skills by the end of the course, which will be implemented in four schools in Dhaka.
Ubaidur Rob, chairman of UCER said the training will encourage the underprivileged students from the city's slums to go to vocational schools, where upon graduation they can expect to earn up to $100 a month at home and $500 abroad.
For the second project, Citi teamed with SEID Trust to provide education to some 450 underprivileged children with autism, intellectual disability and multiple disabilities.
The service will be provides at SEID Trust’s four centres at Shyamoli, Rayerbazar,
Kamrangirchar and Hazaribagh.
Citi officials said that the bank would organise a rally on Manik Mia Avenue in the capital on October 6 to create awareness about the educational rights of underprivileged and challenged children.
A fundraising dinner will be organised by Citi on October 20, the proceeds of which would go to the SEID Trust.
Dilara Sattar Mitu, a director of SEID Trust, said welcomed Citi's support to her organisation.
“Initiatives such as ours require a huge amount of money to run.
It is difficult to manage the SEID Trust alone as a voluntary development organisation.”
Rashed Maqsood, Citi's country officer for Bangladesh, was also present at the ceremony.