Lotus Children's Home is our main centre from which our policy, objectives and institutional activities are carried out since 2013. We have recently built two residential dormitories: one for girls and the other for boys, donated by CHT development board and Firefly Mission respectively in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Please read our reports about these donations .  We provide free foods, accommodations, tuitions, educational equipment, sanitary etc. to 48 destitute and orphaned children plus 3 residential teachers and 2 cooks in 2017. Without the facility of the ‘Lotus Children’s Home’ these children will have no or very limited chance to attend school and access to a clean and safe living environment.  If they stay at their homes, they would never have been a chance to access into a standard education. Along with general school curriculum, these children also receive specially designed classes on ethics, morality and sustainability. Our project operates exactly as s...

A BRIEF FOUNDATION HISTORY Lotus Children Home was established in July 2010 with the prime intention of providing free holistic education and a chance to bring a bright future for destitute, and poor children particularly in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. This is a long-term project intended to improve modern education by offering appropriate and systematic lesson plans in which global sustainability and compassionate morality are prioritized.   The main mission, objective and ideology of the institute was initiated and led by Venerable Dr Nagasena Bhikkhu.  He organised a series of meetings with the local villagers, particularly (Kukimara Villagers, Wagga, Kaptai, Rangamati) to discuss these objectives and ideologies. Kukimara is a large village of more than 200 families and over 1200 people live there. The houses are packed next to each other under the foot of Wagga Hill. Two streams coming from the two adjacent hills meet at the foot of the village. A public road ...

INFORMED BY EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE  (Lotus Education Research Project)    ​We strive to inform the design and delivery of our curriculum based on relevant and latest evidence from the field of psychology, science, philosophy and education. We also aspire to collect and build on the existing evidence to inform what works best in terms of an inclusive curriculum for teaching ethics, morality and importance of sustainability. We are in the process of developing an inclusive model of curriculum for children aged 6 to 18 years. We aim to develop a research programme to assess the benefits of our services, inform new curriculum design and thereby incorporate an Evidence Based Practice as a culture of our services. Evidence Based Practice (EBP) is widely used in the field of medicine and healthcare. EBP allows better provision of care, results in better outcome, and makes possible to ask relevant questions that advances the field. The field of Education is ...

LOTUS TEACHING IDEOLOGIES AND PRINCIPLES Lotus provides free holistic education and a chance to a bright future for destitute children, particularly from the Chittagong Hill Tracts regions.  We strive to provide our children, not only with a modern and holistic education, but we also concentrate on systematic and age appropriate training to improve the children’s analytical and critical abilities, creative thinking and understanding of natural resources. Our main emphasis is to challenge and enhance the traditional academic abilities and develop an appreciation of sustainability in the usage of resources and in looking after the environment. Our curriculum prioritizes by focusing this planet’s 'long-term sustainability'. We also support 'knowledge-based projects’, i.e. systematic training and capacity- building programs pertaining to different areas, some of which are associated with local knowledge, culture and livelihood, while others relate to modern technologic...

LOTUS VISION AND MISSION At Lotus, we believe that most human problems are rooted in illiteracy, ignorance and an inability to understand the interrelatedness of our life and the environment. Our survival, particularly in the context of the growing population may depend on two key interrelated concepts.  The first concept is to appreciate how the demands of our desires are out of proportion with the existing resources. The second concept is to understand how the environment is affected by our demands on the available resources. Both these concepts are crucial for our survival and for us to know how to survive in this conflict-ridden world. Thus, our mission is to work together in training our future generations before the struggle for survival gets out of control.  The children of today need guidance in moral and value-based decision making. We need to nurture and train the young minds in appreciating and protecting the environment and in developing the good that re...