House Of Mannan Charitable Trust (HMCT)

Serving Humanity Beyond Boundaries

Dr. Ghalib Mannan Social Laboratory School

Dr. Ghalib Mannan Social Laboratory School

Located in a remote village of Sirajganj at Nimgachi, the school is a non-profit organization that provides educational opportunities to relatively disadvantaged children. Unparalleled in Bangladesh, the school has intellectual, financial, and physical resources, including its own land and a five-story building. This is the only English medium school operating in this remote village, and is financed exclusively by the Trust in the private sector. Because the school aims to serve poor students, school fees are either nil or negligible. For deserving and underprivileged students, this school also offers a partial or full scholarship for tuition. Currently the school is teaching from play-group to Grade 10 with goals to expand to grade 12 in the near future. The ultimate objective of the school is to become a center of educational excellence and provide students with the tools to grow to their fullest potential.

During the COVID-19 pandemic trustee member, Yasmeen Mannan founded an online english literacy program between her highschool in Memphis, USA and this school in an effort to teach english and increase recruitment of students to the school. Students from grade 6 to 10 met with highschool student tutors online in the USA and engaged in learning vocabulary, reading comprehension and conversation practice.