Whenever someone talks about Bangladesh, it’s usually a list of complaints. Many dream of leaving to build a career abroad.
But three enthusiastic graduates from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Rajshahi dreamt of something else: bringing meaningful change to the country and its education system. They believe the solutions to its many problems are rooted in how we educate our children. From that belief, and a commitment to work with the education system, Tinkers was born.
A war against monotony
We spend a large part of our lives inside the education system, and we have plenty of complaints about it. Working with it, the Tinkers team found that students rarely get to enjoy learning. Many fall behind morally, in leadership, and in solving problems in this era of the fourth industrial revolution.
When education is monotonous, children need interactive materials, personalization and proper guidance — and the monotony is making childhoods painful. So Tinkers’ war against monotony began. We work to make children’s education fun, and to give them beautiful childhoods.
Why we started with Bangla
Almost two million Bangladeshi children live abroad without interactive, personalized materials to learn Bangla. At home, millions more in English-medium schools are afraid of it. People are starting to fear the language we once shed blood for.
To solve this, we created Amar Vasha, an online Bangla tutoring service. But it isn’t only a service — it’s a community. A hard-working, creative team keeps researching to make it better. We built the first personalized curriculum for learning Bangla, a huge, daily-updating interactive content base, and pedagogies that make learning feel like play.
Now we dream of a whole universe of products and services for learning Bangla, so we can teach it to any child, anywhere.
