Underprivileged Children's Educational Programs (UCEP) Bangladesh
UCEP Bangladesh is a leading national NGO in Bangladesh which provides opportunities
of second chance education to children. Starting in 1972 at the Dhaka University premises
with only 60 students, it is now a hub of over 42 thousand working children striving
to inculcate marketable skills and provide employment support service through general
education and vocational training in close collaboration with industries and employers
throughout Bangladesh.
The main objective of UCEP programs is to improve the socio-economic status of the
urban poor and support industrial growth by generating skilled manpower. UCEP has
global reputation for its unique model of human resource development.
UCEP provides a package service of Integrated General and Vocational Education (IGVE),
Technical Education (TE) and Employment Support Services (ESS) along with various
aspects of child rights, good governance and social life skills to the working children.
UCEP operates 53 Integrated General & Vocational (IGV) Schools and 10 Technical
Schools with an enrolment of over 42 thousand distressed working children with equal
gender ratio.
In Integrated General and Vocational schools the children are provided education up
to grade VIII with the abridged form of National Curriculum along with basics of technical
education. After completion of skills training the children are provided employment
support by the Employment Support Services (ESS) Component of UCEP.
In Industrial Electrical & Electronic Control Trade, the students are taught the
system of Mobile Telecommunication such as area of mobile system, area of communication,
power supply system of BTS, elements of power supply, use of auto-voltage regulator,
block diagram of grounding system, etc.
UCEP is marching forward to achieve Vision 2021, the time frame to make the country
a Digital Bangladesh, which has been set by our Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
(Source: UCEP)
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