{"id":4025,"date":"2022-11-19T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2023-03-30T12:48:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T08:48:42","slug":"social-entrepreneur-discusses-bangladeshi-education-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2022\/11\/19\/social-entrepreneur-discusses-bangladeshi-education-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Social entrepreneur discusses Bangladeshi education initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Anood Hamzeh &amp; Shade Shalak<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Fatima Bint Hazza Cultural Foundation Executive Director Maysoon Barber discussed an education initiative that would help in times of flooding in Bangladesh at the American University of Sharjah, on Nov. 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe decided to focus on a certain context: To provide education to the youth in Bangladesh,\u201d said Barber at the event held at Sheraa, AUS Library Building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The foundation challenged architecture students from AUS and two other leading universities to design schools that would not suffer in case of flooding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The foundation asked the students to research and come up with design-thinking solutions to approach the situation holistically.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcmhub.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221119-social-entrepreneur-discusses-bangladeshi-education-initiative-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4027\" width=\"479\" height=\"258\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Maysoon Barber speaks alongside social entrepreneurs to discuss social impact initiatives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not easy to visualize the situation in Bangladesh, let alone come up with a solution. So that was part of the approach, students had to engage with a local NGO and research on their own regarding the landscape of Bangladesh to propose solutions,\u201d added Barber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barber said that they are not providing proposals to be implemented immediately. \u201cThe people in Bangladesh have had their share of trial and error. They just don&#8217;t have the luxury to back up their ideas. So, what we do is we offer our proposals as a contribution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll the proposals shared one thing &#8230; designs with the community at heart,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anood Hamzeh &amp; Shade Shalak UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Fatima Bint Hazza Cultural Foundation Executive Director Maysoon Barber discussed an education initiative that would help in times of flooding in Bangladesh at the American University of Sharjah, on Nov. 17.\u00a0 \u201cWe decided to focus on a certain context: To provide education to the youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32,17,47,27,25,53],"class_list":{"0":"post-4025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-campus","9":"tag-community","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-international","12":"tag-sharjah-uae","13":"tag-women"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}