JAAGO Foundation mainly started as a school for the impoverished children in Rayer Bazar.
As time went by, the JAAGO team added other projects, bit by bit. These projects were run complementary to the school itself. The aim was to improve the lives of these children in other aspects along with their education. The projects helped in meeting the children's hygienic, medical and other day-to-day needs.
Currently, JAAGO has five additional ongoing projects and continues to add projects. As JAAGO grows, new needs come to JAAGO's attention and generous donors fund these needs.
The Healthy Living program takes care of the students' nourishment issues by providing nutritious food such as milk, bread, butter, eggs, fruits and jam to the students once per week.
The First Aid Centre ensures a regular health check-up of every child enrolled in the JAAGO school. It also supplies medicine free of cost or at very low prices to the kids and their families.
The Sewing Centre, called 'Ghuri', is a women empowerment project to train the women of the local community to be self-employed.
The Call for Hygiene project addresses the importance of good hygiene for the students by providing toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, detergent powder and anti-septic lotion as well as instructions on how to use them.
The Let's Clean Bangladesh project addresses the poor, polluted condition of the surrounding area of JAAGO.
The Candle Factory is JAAGO's second women empowerment project, and aims to provide jobs to the mothers and older sisters of our school. Similar to the sewing centre, it provides training to the women before providing them with very convenient jobs, in the production of "JAAGO Mombatti".
The JAAGO School opened a branch in Karail slum, beside the Gulshan Bannani lake and an online school in Tongi, Gazipur. We plan to open free of cost schools in all districts of Bangladesh, so as to avail an international standard education to all kids living under the poverty line.