ELIZABETH RENZI HOUSE SCHOOL

In 1989 the "Casa di Formazione" (Education House) was founded, where shelter is given for both children and women. The Children are given education and the Women are taught domestic skills. The school is run by an Italian Charitable organisation and supported by members who work and look after the children. It a great compliment to them that women and children attend the school, as this means that they really trust the teachers.

The school's purpose is to help the children and their families by offering an opportunity for a better education, to train them to work so that they can have a better future, and by setting up jobs so that they can be self-sufficient. The children that Elizabeth Renzi House looks after belong to those families who on a daily basis face a harsh existence in Dhaka. Their families may have arrived in Dhaka as a result of flooding or the need for work. as occurs often in rural Bangladesh. Many families who are struck down by floods, lose everything, and move to the cities, in order to look for a better standard of living; unfortunately, they often do not find it.

When they reach the cities, they live in poor conditions, usually, a hand-built house of corrugated iron and bamboo beside the streets or on the banks of one of Dhaka's many lakes. It is to help the children living in these circumstances that Elizabeth Renzi House School was founded.

ELIZABETH RENZI HOUSE AT A GLANCE

The school has two buildings, the Education House and The Carlotta Centre. In these buildings the school provides:

• Education for more than 150 Children
  
• Help with study for children who go to the public school
  
• Help to Families in trouble and their Children
  
• Teaching of Domestic Skills
  

Children from Elizabeth Renzi House preparing for a trip to Wonderland Theme Park, Dhaka.