BRIEF FOUNDATION HISTORY

 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 children particularly in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The main mission, objective and ideology of the institute was initiated and led by Venerable Dr Nagasena Bhikkhu.  He organised a series of meeting with the local villagers to discuss this objectives and ideologies. A local devotee named Gaung Jok Marma (monastic name Dhammavamsa as he later became a monk) donated about five acres land to Venerable Dr Nagasena Bhikkhu to implement the objectives and ideologies. We registered this land in 2011 under the name of Lotus Shishu Shadan (Lotus Children Home in English). 

Venerable Nagasena Bhikkhu has been supporting a substantial numbers of destitute children in the Chittagong Hill Tracts since 2005.  But until 2010, Ven. Nagasena has not managed to set up a team for this project due to his PhD research work.  After completion of his PhD in 2012, he started to organize local people to start this project. He built a temporary bamboo's house for the destitute children by the help of local villagers, particularly Kukimara villagers. This temporary bamboo's house provided accommodations for 20 children and two teachers. This temporary house was the beginning of the Lotus Children Home. 

A group of dedicated volunteer workers led by Venerable Nagasena Bhikkhu managed the day-to-day running of this Lotus Children’s Home. He set up a committee to look after the management of Lotus Children’s Home. Lotus Children’s Home’ is dully registered with the government of Bangladesh. The registered number is: 'Ranga 300/15'. 

In early days, Lotus Children’s Home is comprised of two temporary bamboo structures and accommodated 30 destitute children and two teachers in 2014. This has increased to 48 children and three teachers in 2017. These destitute children are from different parts of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. They are from extremely poor families with no access to education and facilities. Given the non-existing social support system, the welfare and well-being of these children is dependent on the generosity of local people.  

As a dedicated volunteer workers, we are committed to working in a fully ethical, honest and transparent manner. The strategy, policy, lesson plans and funding for the children are currently provided by Venerable Dr  Nagasena Bhikkhu, (born in the CHT) and a few other local individuals and social workers (home and abroad). We would like to invite you to join us in this wisdom and noble work! Your generosity will never be forgotten or abused, and every little help will be counted and effectively used for the promotion of our plans.

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