Alingan Foundation

The slum children of Alingan Foundation were very enthusiastic in observing Victory Day on 16th of December.

Victory day is a national holiday in Bangladesh, celebrated on December 16 to commemorate the victory of the Allied forces’ High Command over the Pakistani forces in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.

They started the celebration by singing the national anthem and then performed their recreational talents of singing, dancing and others. The celebration was ended by providing them with some school stationery which will be helpful in starting their new academic year. They were also given some food for the event.

We wish them a start full of hope and encouragement to their academic year and a successful outcome at the end of it.

The children of Alingan Founation wish you a very happy Christmas!

“May this holiday season sparkle and shine, may all of your wishes and dreams come true, and may you feel this happiness all year round”.

The Christmas season is a good time to start thinking about helping other people. This includes providing food, clothing and other basic needs for the children to enable them to experience the joy of the Christmas Season, giving warmth, love and hope: a time to share our good fortune with our neighbors in need across the world.

Let’s make this holiday season special by helping a child’s dream come true.

Any donation option will help grant the wishes of children for their essential basic needs:

Donate any amount of money which can be used to provide some food, winter clothes, shoes and other essential things. Slum children in Bangladesh are particularly vulnerable. Many are sleeping on the cold ground wearing cotton shirts and a simple cough can quickly escalate into something much more serious. Some children are suffering from various common diseases and lack proper treatment. A little help can protect them from this suffering.

Support children on a regular basis for their education. To break their ongoing cycle of poverty we have found that the only way that we can guarantee the children a better future, is through providing a solid education. We believe that through education, slum children can grow up with the knowledge and ability to break the cycle of poverty in their whole community.

(1 euro can feed 2 slum children for a day!)

You can make your money donation to the following:

Account name: Alingan Foundation
Account Nummber/ IBAN: BE61363162269017
BIC/SWIFT: BBRUBEBB

Project’s account address:
Mechelsesteenweg 23/22
2018 Antwerpen
Belgium (EU)

To make your contribution via paypal or credit card, please check the donation page of the website: http://alingan.org/donation.html

For more information regarding the project and programs, please have a look in the website: www.alingan.org

Thanks for staying with us.

Ten year old Ashraful has been suffering from an ear problem since his early days. It became a chronic problem since his family was not able to provide him with regular treatment. Therefore, the problem was ongoing and he was suffering a lot of pain. Fortunately, he has been helped by one of our supporters for the better treatment. He was brought to a specialist and given medicine for 2 months. After some tests the doctor found that the read his eardrum is perforated. Therefore, the pain continues especially when he gets cold. According to the doctor’s advice, an operation can cure the problem but it would not be safe to execute the surgery until he is 12. The doctor also suggested that the problem might be solved with the proper medicine beforehand.

Ashraful is studying in grade 4. He wants to be a doctor, perhaps his own physical problem made him aim to be a doctor! He is studying attentively, obtaining a good score in all exams. His parents are also doing their best for his better performance.

Thanks to Jessie for contributing for his treatment through our project.

We wish all the best for Ashraful.

We thank Maria João from the bottom of our hearts for the contribution she made. This contribution will help us to continue our efforts for the education of slum children in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her contribution was a surprise for us. We had informed her about the project some time ago so she kept it in mind and took this opportunity to support it.

Personally I ((Palash Roy-founder of Alingan Foundation) have known Maria João from Portugal since January 2010. During my work for slum children in Dhaka, she volunteered to work for the slum community from January to March 2010. She was pretty effective in making some changes in the slum community through different development work. She was loved and respected by the children and their parents in the community, an impression which has remained in her mind and heart and has made her willing to visit them again. She considers the community as her big family.

In one of our last communications, she mentioned:
“Please ask Asma, Amena, Runa, Kodor Banu, Mosharof, Lily, Julhas, Yasin, everyone to pray for me and be happy for me. Tell them that I did not forget my Bangladeshi family and that I wish they could all be with me on this very important day. They will be in my heart. I want very much to go back and I have not forgotten the promise I made. Maybe I will go one day to help Alingan”

We wish her a happy and peacefully married life and that she remains with us like a family.

Schenk uw niet langer gebruikte maar nog te gebruiken dingen om de sloppenwijkkinderen in Bangladesh te ondersteunen

Er zijn andere wegen om armoede te helpen bestrijden dan door sponsorship en financiële ondersteuning. U kan aan ons project deelnemen door niet langer gebruikte maar nog te gebruiken huishouddingen af te leveren bij ons inleverpunt. Wanneer wij een voldoende hoeveelheid aan geschonken items verzameld hebben, kunnen we een “garage verkoop” organiseren of deze verkopen op de vlooienmarkt. Op deze wijze kunnen wij wat fondsen genereren om het project verder te laten lopen.

Wij staan klaar om elk item te accepteren dat u ons zou willen schenken.

Enkele voorbeelden van zulke items :

– elk type kleding en schoenen (zowel voor kinderen als voor volwassenen)
– schoolmateriaal
– boeken en kunstwerkjes
– keukengerei
– electronisch materiaal
– speelgoed
– toiletbenodigdheden
– eetgerei
– elk type glaswerk
– decoratieve stukken
– schilderijen
– etc…

U kan uw giften afleveren aan een van de volgende locaties:

Inleverpunt (met afspraak):
Dambruggestraat 155
2060 Antwerpen

Noteer: graag hadden wij vooraf een telefoontje, sms of email alvorens uw gift af te leveren bij het inleverpunt.

Inleverpunt (zonder afspraak):
Café Strange
Dambruggestraat 161
2060 Antwerpen
Aflevertijd zonder afspraak: Elke dag (behalve maandag) tussen 18.00 u en 23.00 u

Wij doen de verkopen elke woensdag en zaterdag van 11.00u tot 18.00u op het adres Dambruggestraat 155 , 2060 Antwerpen.

Voor meer informatie, consulteer onze website: www.alingan.org

of contacteer ons op hiernavolgend adres :

Email: info@alingan.org
GSM: Jessie: 0473 97 32 37, Palash: 0484339162 (tussen 10.00 en 22.00 u)
Armand: 0474 42 49 01 (tussen 14.00 en 23.00 u)

www.facebook.com/alinganfoundation

After collecting a significant amount of donated items, we organized another garage sale on Sunday. 7th August. We would like to thank to everybody for your great care providing the donated items to support the project. It was a surprise for us to receive such a huge amount of donated items in a short period of notice. It took some time to sort out all the items and make them ready for the garage sale on 7th Sunday starting at 11.30 hrs.

Thanks to Nathalie and her family for your initial idea of providing the items to the project
Thanks to Sus and Jessie for being so kind as to provide all the things
Thanks to Hilde for paking the items
Thanks to Leen and Silke for driving the things to the garage
Thanks to Paul and Jessie for coordinating the distributions of the donated items.
Thanks to the neighbors of the garage sale who provided few electronic stuff
and Thanks to Armand for allowing us to use your garage again for the sale

We would be delighted to have any further assistance from your end.

The list of donated items we received:
– Clothes and shoes
– Children’s books and toys
– Framed painted pictures
– Kitchen utensils
– Electronic Equipment
– Bedroom items
– some glasses
– Show pieces

Thanks to all customers who supported the project by buying the donated items.

After publishing the message about collecting donated items to raise funds for the project, we soon received some donated items in Antwerp, Belgium. Armand Everaert, one of our project board members allowed us to make the garage sale in his big garage along the pretty busy public street. We had to do some hard work to make the garage and the items ready for the sale. That hard work was nothing when we noticed, people are enthusiastic to have a look of our arrangement and wanted to buy something to support the project. We didn’t have a very great collection of donated items but yet we collected some funds on that sale which will be great help to support the project. We have already received more responses from people around in Belgium to donate us their unwanted and unnecessary household items. We are ready to make another sale when we are able to collect some more donated items and are hoping to continue the sale regularly. We are ready to collect any kind of items which people are willing to donate.

An example of donated items:
– All type of clothes and shoes (both children’s and adult)
– School materials
– Books and Arts
– Kitchen utensils
– Electronic Equipment
– Toys
– Toiletries
– Bedroom items
– Dining items
– All types of glasses
– Show pieces
– And so on

Thanks to the kind people who provided us the donated items and who supported the sale through their volunteering work.

Some information regarding donations:

There are ways to help combat poverty other than by sponsorship or financial support. You can take part in our project by providing unused and unnecessary household items to our following drop off points. We can pass on donations to the children and their families. Alternatively, when we collect a sufficient amount of donated items, we can arrange for a garage sale or to sell the donated items in the flea market. In this way we may collect some funds to run the project.

You can also bring your donations with you on your visit to Bangladesh or Belgium and make contact with one of our staffs to arrange collection from your destination or you can drop your donated items to one of our drop off points. You can also make your donation directly to the children and their families during your visit in Bangladesh. This applies equally to foreigners and to residents of Bangladesh.

You are requested to drop your donated items to one of the following locations:

Note: Please let us know via phone call, sms or email before you drop the donations at our drop off points. In case you are unable to reach to us over phone call, please send us a sms or an email.

Drop off point in Belgium:

Dambruggestraat 155
2060 Antwerpen
Email: info@alingan.org
GSM: +32 (0) 474 42 49 01 (between 2pm and 10pm-Belgium time)
GSM: +32 (0) 484339162 (between 9am and 10pm-Belgium time)

Drop off point in Bangladesh:
Alingan Foundation\
House no- 1
Unit- kha169
Korail Bosti (Beside the Nurani Mosque)
Banani, Dhaka-1213
Email: info@alingan.org
Cell: +880 1861 619744 ((between 9am and 10pm-Bangladesh time)
Cell: +88 01748923774 (between 9am and 10pm-Bangladesh time)

Note: Please make sure that your donated items can be reused.

I would like to thank to everyone from bottom of the heart on behalf of the children and the project. It was not easy to start the project but with the support and encouragement of some great people, we are able to do it.

First of all, thanks to all volunteers in Dhaka for collecting the information of the children and conducting some initial activities to start with. Their help and support made it easy and smooth for us to prepare all the paperwork for the registration of the project in Belgium.

Thanks to Paul Janssens, Armand Everaert and Agnes Emilienne Janssens in Belgium who joined the board of the project and thanks to those kind people especially to Ron, Stefan Dewitte and Stefan Meynen who supported us different ways to establish the project.

There is no end of thanks giving to Michael Bristable from UK who helped from the beginning by reviewing all the papers, children’s biographies and website in English with his great patience. Thanks to all my friends and great people around the world who encouraged me to go ahead with my commitment to support those underprivileged children in Dhaka.

And thanks in advance to all people of kindness who are willing to support to the children.

Sincerely yours,
Palash Roy