OUR STORY

The Canadian Burmese Rohingya Organization began this initiative in 2008, and it was formally established in 2021 as a project within the organization. The Promise of Prosperity project developed from a desire to continue addressing the significant gap in the education of Rohingya student refugees in Bangladesh’s Kutupalong and Nayapara refugee camps.

It was launched as it became clear that food, water, and humanitarian assistance alone would not be sufficient to rebuild the Rohingya community. It is only through access to knowledge and education that this is possible.

Education is the backbone of every society, and it is what the Rohingya population has been denied and deprived of as the Burmese government has stripped them of their fundamental rights in Burma. In Bangladeshi refugee camps, informal UN-funded elementary school education is insufficient for Rohingya students to achieve and prosper in life.

Our mission is to continue working to provide tuition, school supplies, and uniforms to Rohingya girls and boys so that they can prosper in life and improve their knowledge by completing their education in a formal environment.

“Education is the basic building block of every society. It is the single best investment countries can make to build prosperous, healthy and equitable societies. Article 26 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “Everyone has the right to education.” Today however, 57 million children remain out of school. Education is not only a right, but a passport to human development that opens doors and expands opportunities and freedoms.”

– United Nations