He stored all the furniture in one room and left the others after failing to pay rents for months on end while waiting for the situation to get normal. The teachers and employees of the kindergarten schools across Bangladesh are facing similar situations like those of Mizanur, Suruj and Hridoy. Around 40,000 kindergartens in the country have employed nearly 1 million teachers and staffers, according to Mizanur, who is also general secretary of Bangladesh Kindergarten Association. “If we get loans on low interests, we can pay the rents and save the schools,” Mizanur said. They spoke to different top-level officials but have not heard from them, said M Iqbal Bahar Chowdhury, chairman of the Bangladesh Kindergarten School and College Unity Council.

Source: bd News24 December 02, 2020 22:07 UTC