Life skills & Education for Adolescent Development (LEAD) Project
This is a one kind of adolescents’ literacy program for dropout adolescent’s boys and girls. From this project ensuring 06 months basic literacy course and 18th months skill based training to the 11 to 18 years aged adolescent boys and girls. The project implemented through 90 numbers of Non-formal Adolescent Centers. There are six components have been undertaken to implement this program. These are- Primary selection of adolescent boys and girls, Provides life skill development training to the adolescents, Subject based guardians meeting, Literacy program & Technical skill development training, Mass gathering and Couples life development training.
Project Locations: Baliadangi & Thakurgaon Sadar Upazila of Thakurgaon district.
No. of Project Participants: 2700 dropout adolescents.
Project duration: January 2005 to March 2010.
Project Budget: 58,30,000.00
Financed by: USC Canada-Bangladesh & Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)