Project D-Youth
by Nazia Ahmed
The slogan “Amra Bangladesh” on a wristband was the first step Project Bangladesh undertook and it gained huge Support from the public. Then it came up with yet another exciting initiative for a contest to promote business ideas along with community services for youth development, initially known as The D-youth project. The project started two months ago.
This contest will mainly focus on providing an opportunity for the students irrespective of their age, to enhance their extracurricular skills along with the concept of community service. Project Bangladesh and Grameen Phone's Youth Brand D-juice, working as strategic partners, jointly initiated this project. This contest, the first of its kind in the country, is an incorporation of the popular reality show The Apprentice, where teams compete against each other to come up with the most innovative and effective business scheme. Only here there is the added twist of promoting community services in the country through a form of competition. The main qualification for the members to enter the contest is that they have to be students be it of any age. The contest kicked off with 773 teams competing against each other with 2-10 members in each team. Only 100 teams went on for the second round. 37 teams made it to the interview, and of these 20 were selected. Project BD and D-juice have been in the judging panel right from the inception of the contest.
The teams will submit ideas and implementation plans with a community service objective. The funds raised by the projects will be donated to different charities. Based on the monitoring of their possible output of the objectives, time efficiency, business plan etc the best team will be adjudged the Champion. The final two teams will be organizing a Djuice event and the winning team will be the Brand Ambassador of Djuice.
"Some of the ideas the teams came up with so far were remarkable. A board game named Chetona 71, was an incarnated form of our historical liberation war, where the board was fashioned after the sector layout during the liberation war of Bangladesh. Another good idea was the birth registration plan which if implemented properly would be very effective," said Sazidul Islam, Brand development and management officer of Djuice.
Organizations like the Liberation war museum and Standard Chartered Bank are keen about the concept of youth development, which is why they are also interested in supporting the teams of Project D-youth.
This week the teams have already started off with their new scheme, which is dedicated to ASF (Acid Survivors Foundation). The money raised will be donated to ASF.
by Nazia Ahmed
The slogan “Amra Bangladesh” on a wristband was the first step Project Bangladesh undertook and it gained huge Support from the public. Then it came up with yet another exciting initiative for a contest to promote business ideas along with community services for youth development, initially known as The D-youth project. The project started two months ago.This contest will mainly focus on providing an opportunity for the students irrespective of their age, to enhance their extracurricular skills along with the concept of community service. Project Bangladesh and Grameen Phone's Youth Brand D-juice, working as strategic partners, jointly initiated this project. This contest, the first of its kind in the country, is an incorporation of the popular reality show The Apprentice, where teams compete against each other to come up with the most innovative and effective business scheme. Only here there is the added twist of promoting community services in the country through a form of competition. The main qualification for the members to enter the contest is that they have to be students be it of any age. The contest kicked off with 773 teams competing against each other with 2-10 members in each team. Only 100 teams went on for the second round. 37 teams made it to the interview, and of these 20 were selected. Project BD and D-juice have been in the judging panel right from the inception of the contest.
The teams will submit ideas and implementation plans with a community service objective. The funds raised by the projects will be donated to different charities. Based on the monitoring of their possible output of the objectives, time efficiency, business plan etc the best team will be adjudged the Champion. The final two teams will be organizing a Djuice event and the winning team will be the Brand Ambassador of Djuice.
"Some of the ideas the teams came up with so far were remarkable. A board game named Chetona 71, was an incarnated form of our historical liberation war, where the board was fashioned after the sector layout during the liberation war of Bangladesh. Another good idea was the birth registration plan which if implemented properly would be very effective," said Sazidul Islam, Brand development and management officer of Djuice.
Organizations like the Liberation war museum and Standard Chartered Bank are keen about the concept of youth development, which is why they are also interested in supporting the teams of Project D-youth.
This week the teams have already started off with their new scheme, which is dedicated to ASF (Acid Survivors Foundation). The money raised will be donated to ASF.