The Foundation was launched at an event in Melbourne last week that attracted over 100 supporters.
TERF delivers a series of programs that will create long term positive impacts on the lives of Bangladeshi women and children include:
- Increasing child attendance levels at local primary and secondary schools
- Facilitating the treatment of preventable disease and providing access to essential medical services
- Improving the quality and availability of services and amenities for children living in destitute, dilapidated orphanages
- Empowering ultra-poor Bangladeshi women by providing entrepreneurship and employment opportunities that will help them achieve financial independence an live with dignity.
“In Bangladesh many girls get married between the ages of sixteen and nineteen, more than one million primary school-age girls unenrolled themselves from primary education due to poverty, social pressure, and other issues,” said Julia Reynolds, Chair of TERF.
Reynolds is passionate about education and the empowerment of women in developing countries.
“Education helps women to gain the right knowledge and skills and to apply them in their employment, and enables them to support their children families, hence breaking the cycle of poverty,” she said.