Mr Zillur Rahman was a marginal poor when he first met the field officer of POPI. He was trying to bring some changes in his living. The meeting gave him a life changing trajectory in many spheres of his life. However, we are going to focus only one aspects of his dream journey.

After several visits of the field officer finally he agreed to send his son Majedul Mia to POPI Floating School. Majedual with his classmates got admitted in POPI Floating School (School in the boat) and graduated in 2015. The foundation, Zillur Rahman observes, POPI school gave were extraordinarily helpful for his child’s later achievements in the education. His other children got education from the local schools while Majedul got it from the POPI Floating School. Only Majedul in his family shined so far and will complete his civil engineering diploma Cumilla Polytechnic College in 2023. Zillur Rahman’s eyes were full of vigour when he says his son is determined to complete his BSC in Civil Engineering after his diploma.

This is only a tip in the iceberg. There are lots of success stories of children who are graduated from the POPI Floating School (PFS). Children of outreach Chatir Char are no more dependent on the whims of nature. They are gradually being mainstreamed and being the change-makers themselves.