Why Shako?

"Shako" is a Bangla word that means small bridge. "Shako" emerges here as an e-bridge to raise awareness about children's issues and services in the United States of America and Bangladesh. I am committed to present a portrait of child welfare services in a simple format that will benefit children, parents, students, teachers, researchers, social workers, child welfare professionals and all concerned community members.

The world of children is full of suffering, deprivation, and poverty who are supposed to be cared and loved in order to grow. Shako reminds us caring children with love and protecting them are our shared responsiblity. Therefore, if our efforts help or touch at least one parent, one child, one community- right here or back there, what else we need. If Shako has already enlightened you, are you ready to help a child? Look at the resources, and get involved. After all, you should be proud as you are the one who is going to make difference today for a child. Read more!

Bangladesh beats India

Bangladesh beats India in child welfare filed. Times of India reports on December 12, 2003: "Bangladesh and Sri Lanka look after their children better than India does. Unicef’s State of the World’s Children Report 2004, released on Thursday, says they are way ahead of India and Pakistan in providing health care and education to children. Among the 160 countries covered, India fares a little better than the sub-Saharan African countries in terms of infant mortality. Net primary school enrolment is as high as 96 per cent in Bangladesh and 97 per cent in Sri Lanka. In India it is 76 per cent and in Pakistan, 56 per cent..." Read more!

Welcome to Shako

"Shako" invites everyone to come forward to help children and their families. Let's shower smile for every child. Let's make every child happy and safe. Let them grow for tomorrow. In order to raise children, we need you, your family, your neighborhood, your city and your country to come together. After all, it's our collective human responsibility. Just ask yourself, what have you done today to make a child happy and safe? Shako invites you to join hands for children to disseminate information, diffuse knowledge, break walls of ignorance and indifference, and put words into action. This following excerpt from Tagore's Gitanjali will enlighten you. Almost a century ago bengali poet Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in his Gitanjali eloquently wrote this lyric:
"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth...
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening
Thought and action ----
Into that heaven of freedom, my father,
let my country awake" Read more!