UKBET Ramadan Appeal 2022
This Ramadan we are working with Just Giving to ensure that 100% of your donations go straight to where it is needed most – to our UKBET children and their families.
Can you support our work?
Your donations this Ramadan will help us reach, feed, clothe and teach the most vulnerable and excluded working children doing hazardous work and domestic labour in Bangladesh. You can help us to break the cycle by getting working children back into education as well as helping to address the root causes of child labour.
100% of your donations will go towards supporting our work. Either choose to donate or use our Just Giving Zakat Calculator to determine how much Zakat to pay, which you can then donate to us.
Calculate your Zakat
Use our Just Giving Zakat Calculator to determine how much Zakat to pay this Ramadan. You can also donate to UKBET from the calculator knowing that 100% of the donation will go to supporting the needy in Sylhet, Bangladesh.
Your donations will go towards alleviating poverty amongst our UKBET families, supporting them to create a stable income through micro-grants so that they can start their own small businesses – selling groceries, fish, chickens and a tea stall for example. It will also go towards providing food packs for UKBET families and buying new clothes for our children at Eid.
Donate to UKBET
This Ramadan choose to support our work to end child labour in Sylhet, Bangladesh. 100% of funds raised from our donations from the Ramadan appeal will go directly to supporting our projects working with child labourers and their families.
Bangladesh bKash Donations
For our supporters and donors in Bangladesh, donations can be made through bKash using the personal number: 01717682622.
Please contact 008801707600202 for any clarification.
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Our working children programmes
We reach and teach the most vulnerable and excluded working children forced into hazardous domestic labour. Our programmes below empower these young girls and their families through access to education, tailored vocational training, and livelihood support - offering them real alternatives to exploitation. By removing financial and social barriers, our programmes pave the way for long-term learning, dignity, and opportunity.
Doorstep Learning
Although not officially recognised as being ‘hazardous’, domestic work presents many dangers for working children both from the labour they are asked to do and the incidence of sexual and physical assault.
Family Futures
Poverty drives families to send their children to work rather than school. Our team works with families of the children in our education programmes to help them create income through self-employment and referring them to other agencies for support.
Historical programmes
The programmes below are no longer active. Initiated in 2013, these programmes aimed to help boys working in hazardous occupations. Despite their popularity, the number of boys progressing out of child labour was disappointing. Given limited resources, the Trustees have decided to close these programmes in February 2024 and focus on our Doorstep Learning and Family Futures programmes which continue to have great success and progression rate.
Waste Pickers
This pilot project will bring basic education to 50 children working as waste collectors in Sylhet. Children will be taught literacy, numeracy and life skills by specialist community teachers three times a week in education centres close to their workplace.
Hazardous Work
Following a baseline study that revealed that 3,000 children are employed in hazardous jobs in the city of Sylhet, we initiated our pioneering education programme with children doing hazardous work in workshops and small businesses in Sylhet.
Donate and support our work
Education can change lives.