WTB takes intellectually disabled kids to Dhaka Zoo
Saturday, 8 December 2007
Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh (WTB) took the intellectually challenged (disabled) children of the Sena Shohayok School of Dhaka Cantonment to Dhaka Zoo Friday for the whole day, reports UNB.
This was arranged to launch a programme titled `Dreamnight at the Zoo' Bangladesh, with WTB, a partner of the global initiative.
The programme was designed for the children to raise their voice for the conservation of tigers and hoolock gibbon (ulluk) through different activities.
`Dreamnight at the Zoo', an international event, started in journey in 1996.
The programme has been designed by the Dreamnight at the Zoo Foundation, based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
The foundation has more than 150 partners in 30 countries of the world who celebrate this event annually.
This programme is designed to take intellectually disabled persons, including children, who are very special to all of us.
People in the northern Hemisphere celebrate the event on the first Friday of June and of the southern Hemisphere on the first Friday of December.
The goal of the programme is to make an annual and entrance-free day/evening at a zoo exclusively for intellectually challenged children, their parents and family members.
Bangladesh joined this international initiative this year and this was the first programme of the `Dreamnight at the Zoo' in Bangladesh.
This is an initiative to ensure that intellectually challenged persons have a direct role in conserving the bio-diversity of the country. They can influence others by expressing their love for other life forms.
The objective of the programme is to give the participants a good feeling towards the animals through games, songs, paintings and various other activities using hoolock and tiger as examples.
The importance of theses unique animals, their conservation and the importance of suitable habitats and the need to preserve forests were explained through these activities.
The programme also aims to sparking the enthusiasm of disabled persons to inspire others.
During this programme, the children were treated as VIPs and given a warm reception by the members of the WTB and the zoo personnel.
The children were allowed to draw their favourite animals. They sang animal songs and danced wearing tiger and hoolock masks. The programme was designed to gift a special "day of love for animals" to these very special people.
The children were accompanied by their parents and other family members. A conservation movement can be initiated in the country through these intellectually challenged persons and their family members.
A photographic exhibition on birds by Enam Ul Haque was arranged for them. They were able to watch birds of Dhaka Zoo through telescopes and binoculars.
The members of WTB feel that December 7 should be declared a national event for the intellectually and physically challenged persons and the zoo should remain open only for them on this day, said a press release.
This was arranged to launch a programme titled `Dreamnight at the Zoo' Bangladesh, with WTB, a partner of the global initiative.
The programme was designed for the children to raise their voice for the conservation of tigers and hoolock gibbon (ulluk) through different activities.
`Dreamnight at the Zoo', an international event, started in journey in 1996.
The programme has been designed by the Dreamnight at the Zoo Foundation, based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
The foundation has more than 150 partners in 30 countries of the world who celebrate this event annually.
This programme is designed to take intellectually disabled persons, including children, who are very special to all of us.
People in the northern Hemisphere celebrate the event on the first Friday of June and of the southern Hemisphere on the first Friday of December.
The goal of the programme is to make an annual and entrance-free day/evening at a zoo exclusively for intellectually challenged children, their parents and family members.
Bangladesh joined this international initiative this year and this was the first programme of the `Dreamnight at the Zoo' in Bangladesh.
This is an initiative to ensure that intellectually challenged persons have a direct role in conserving the bio-diversity of the country. They can influence others by expressing their love for other life forms.
The objective of the programme is to give the participants a good feeling towards the animals through games, songs, paintings and various other activities using hoolock and tiger as examples.
The importance of theses unique animals, their conservation and the importance of suitable habitats and the need to preserve forests were explained through these activities.
The programme also aims to sparking the enthusiasm of disabled persons to inspire others.
During this programme, the children were treated as VIPs and given a warm reception by the members of the WTB and the zoo personnel.
The children were allowed to draw their favourite animals. They sang animal songs and danced wearing tiger and hoolock masks. The programme was designed to gift a special "day of love for animals" to these very special people.
The children were accompanied by their parents and other family members. A conservation movement can be initiated in the country through these intellectually challenged persons and their family members.
A photographic exhibition on birds by Enam Ul Haque was arranged for them. They were able to watch birds of Dhaka Zoo through telescopes and binoculars.
The members of WTB feel that December 7 should be declared a national event for the intellectually and physically challenged persons and the zoo should remain open only for them on this day, said a press release.