About of SOH
History of SoH
In 1990 Mr. Wim Bakker, a Dutch man moved by the poor children missing the opportunity going to school, he set up a small classroom in his own garage only with 16 students with the help of a Bangladeshi Teacher at Banani Road 35 (firstly called Bakker’s Bamboo School). Later in 1993 Mr Chitta Halder became the head and named School of Hope, shifted to beside Banani Graveyard and the students started increasing from 25 to now 250. In 2000 SoH shifted to Vatara. In 2014 SoH was brought under Vattara Hope Foundation to run its charity education properly.
“ The school has come such a long long way from the little bamboo shack in the squatter camp next to the Gulshan mosque, our company guesthouse where I stayed when from time to time I had to go to Dhaka for business. For working at a development project of the EEC in Rangpur, but occasionally I had to go to Dhaka and in the evenings I often strolled into the squatter camp for a chat with the friendly squatters, mostly abandoned women and their children living in make shifts of the plastic sheets. One day I was asked by an old squatter if I could help him start a school. I said yes and the little bamboo school with sixteen kiddies was started. A real miracle!” – Mr. Wim Bakker.
Vattara Hope Foundation Board
Having registered as Charity School under Vattara Hope Foundation in 2014 by The Society registration Act, 1860 (ACT XXI of 1860), Joint Stocks of the government of Bangladesh SoH is helping the destitute students in primary education level conducted by the state law and under DPE, Education Ministry of Bangladesh having EMIS Code 310110877. The Board of Vattara Hope Foundation also acts as the Executive Board of SoH, is composed of renowned academics, entrepreneurs, eminent professionals from different fields and representatives of their primary donors.
Message From Board, School of Hope
The opportunity to facilitate education to other’s children is a rare privilege – especially when those children may not have other means to attain education. The Board of School of Hope feels an enormous sense of honor and responsibility to be involved in educating economically and socially underprivileged children in Dhaka. At School of Hope we take this considerable responsibility earnestly as we aim to prepare young kids for their adult lives by building the building blocks of future learning whether at classrooms or in the university of life.
We see School of Hope as a dream factory; where our teachers work assiduously to broaden the minds of our students and inspire them to dream big. We take pride in instilling the values that not only allow them to dream big but make them relentlessly driven to materialize those dreams.
At school of Hope we appreciate the age-old adage – ‘it is nice to be important, but more important to be nice’. Development of the character of our students is as important as is the examination grades. To do this we aim to create an environment that fosters integrity, promote tolerance, and encourage teamwork so that out students get prepared to make a telling contribution to their wider community.
The operation of School of Hope is heavily reliant on the generous contribution made by our donors, whether individual or corporate. The board remains infinitely indebted to them for their generous contribution. With their continued support we remain committed to provide the best academic environment for our students that ignite their intellectual curiosities whilst ensuring that they grow as forward-thinking individuals.
Administration
The abode of love and care, SoH has a long tradition to teach the student with the same teaches for the sustainable quality education. All the teachers are highly educated and well trained with both good academic and professional training results. With 7 Permanent Teachers, 2 Part time Music Teacher and 5 dedicated staffs SoH is running her academic activities of teaching 250 targeted students and who are rendering their service with a long period.
Message from Headmaster, SoH
“Charity begins at home” is very true in the case of SoH, here the students learn from the very beginning what is sharing and caring. In this type of institution rendering service as the Headmaster, is really a source of happiness and taking pride. SoH believes that educational institution should be a bower of learning through joy and interaction. So, the lessons giving process and other lesson related activities always follow the simplicity in an authentic manner. SoH tries her utmost to facilitate her young learners for the next in keeping pace with the change of winds, stately and globally showing the respect to the life values,code of conduct and own culture, tradition and faith for achieving the educational goal.
We see School of Hope as a dream factory; where our teachers work assiduously to broaden the minds of our students and inspire them to dream big. We take pride in instilling the values that not only allow them to dream big but make them relentlessly driven to materialize those dreams.
At school of Hope we appreciate the age-old adage – ‘it is nice to be important, but more important to be nice’. Development of the character of our students is as important as is the examination grades. To do this we aim to create an environment that fosters integrity, promote tolerance, and encourage teamwork so that out students get prepared to make a telling contribution to their wider community.
The operation of School of Hope is heavily reliant on the generous contribution made by our donors, whether individual or corporate. The board remains infinitely indebted to them for their generous contribution. With their continued support we remain committed to provide the best academic environment for our students that ignite their intellectual curiosities whilst ensuring that they grow as forward-thinking individuals.
Respectable Teachers of SoH
Silvanus Kallol Sarker
Headmaster
Gita Rani Mazumder
Asst. Teacher
Mahbub Zaman
Asst. Teacher
Philomina Golapy Gomes
Asst. Teacher
Kazi Nusrath Farhana
Asst. Teacher
Md. Nazrul Islam
Asst. Teacher
Dipali Maria Costa
Asst. Teacher
Mira Rani Audhikari
Music Teacher (Part time)
Shreedam Halder
Tabla Teacher (Part time)
Loving Students of SoH
From 1990 till now if it is estimated, SoH has tried her best to teach more than 5167 destitute students of the marginal income generating parents from the nearby areas. In two shifts, morning and day many siblings are also become the regular students. Many poor students do works with their parents or for other people in day shift. Like running errands or doing work in grocery shops, paper boy and so on to survive.
Even after working the attendance in every class is almost 95% to 97% in average. For quality education the SoH maintains not more than the ceiling of 250 students keeping gender equity. After completing class five and PEC examination, students continue their studies from Grade VI to X in local schools as SoH’s outgoing students who receive stipend from Lindex
