Having begun with three classrooms, the sisters and staff now find it necessary to increase enrolment and to add a classroom each year until the British O-A level standard is reached. This is the building we want to acquire. It is ideally situated with a field in front and a playground behind for sports and outdoor activities. There is literally no space in the congested city for the youth to play and engage in healthy exercise. This is the type of protection the parents want and need to allow their children to come to this school and develop the total person.
Bangladeshi boys are as mischievous as boys anywhere.
Within five years, the school would become self-sustaining. The best part of this equation is that the children are receiving quality education through concept learning and they will be able to meet the future with competence and confidence imparted not only by academic excellence but by values, relationships and shared goals. Miriam Perlewitz entered the Maryknoll Sisters from Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1948. She earned her Ph.D. in Biblical Language and Literature from St. Louis University. From 1985-92 Sister taught in the National Major Seminary in Dhaka.