Dhaka American Women's Club

CHARITIES

All proceeds from our yearly activities, after expenses, are given away to local charities. The donated funds are earmarked for a specific need fashioned to ensure sustainability. In general, DAWC donates to agencies such as:

  • schools for the underprivileged
  • drug rehabilitation clinics
  • missionary schools
  • low-income women's entrepreneurial
    projects
  • rural development projects

Update on visit to Bright Star School, Spring 2008:

The visit to the Bright Star School went great! We were able to see the current school as well as see the new plot of land and the foundation/1st floor of the new school. The building will be 5 stories high and they are building as funds become available.

PAST RECIPIENTS

• Society for Integrated Development
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• Street Children's Partners
• MCIWO

• Street Children's Partners • Tumila Boys High School

• St. Mary's Girls High School • Sathee Samaj Kalyan Samity

• APON • Holy Rosary High School

• Sathee Samaj Kalyan Samity • Gulshan Literacy Programme

• Dhaka Project • Society for the Lowest Urban Mass

• Prison's Care in Bangladesh • Children Development Program

• Assistance for Blind Children (ABC) • Holy Cross High School

• Sreemongol Tea Garden Student
   Workers' Children • Fellowship for the Visually
   Handicapped

• SMSM, Project for Handicapped
   Children • Goodwill Women Development
   Project

• Vialisa • Shrimongal Foundation

How can I request consideration of my Charity?
Eligible charitable gift and service recipients shall be:
• Registered with the Government of Bangladesh;
• Accessible to and directly benefit the targeted population; and
• Accessible to DAWC members for site visits and periodic oversight
and monitoring visits.

Please send a letter of request to:
  DAWC Charities Requests
  c/o American Recreation Assoc
  House 13, Road 69
  Gulshan 2, Dhaka-1212

After consideration, we will contact you for further information.