
History of Alo Bhubon Trust
Bangladesh
is a densely populated country having 160 million people living in an area of
147,570 km² (30.5.2019) in which 64.96% of the total population is living in
rural areas. The
developing countries share some common characteristics like health risks, low
education levels, poverty, corruption, terrorism, illiteracy, inadequate public
healthcare, environmental pollution etc.
Many
national and international organizations are uniquely designed and activated to
help to solve complex development problems in a courageous, integrated, and
innovative way to meet the sustainable development goals (SDG). The development
of any country depends on a holistic effect of different governments and
NGOs working on that particular country. Considering this NGO/ Trust plays a
very important role for improvement of the socio-economic, scientific,
technological, medical and environmental situation of the country.
In
1972 Golam Abu Zakaria, a young student full of devotion for his motherland,
left Bangladesh at 18 years of age for University undergraduate education in
Germany which was supported by a German governmental scholarship. He was one of
the first awardees of Bangladesh after its independence in December 1971. From
then his patriotism for Bangladesh, motivates him to analyze the factors for which
Germany is so developed at that time in comparison to Bangladesh. Since that
time, he has started to share his knowledge to Bangladeshis during his visit to
the home country and is desperate to do some work with respect to his field,
especially in medical physics. He has also a keen interest to improve and avail
education, health hygiene, hospitals, vocational training to the deprived
people in the villages. Besides this, he has the knowledge as physicist and
regularly delivers lectures on the environment and renewable energies in
Germany. This acts as a driving force to share
his experience and knowledge to his home country. From his experience for more
than 40 years in Germany in different areas and approximately 30 years in
Bangladesh and other developing countries, he thinks Bangladesh must need
development not only in his specialized field in medical physics but also other
major sectors such as in primary education, secondary education, health
education, environment, energy, research which are the prime need of the people
of Bangladesh.
This
apprehension ultimately resulted in the establishment of the organization Alo
Bhubon Trust (Alo-BT) in July 2018 by Prof. Dr Golam Abu Zakaria along with
some of his close like-minded majestic persons. Alo Bhubon Trust is a non-
profit, charitable and voluntary welfare association with its primary motto ‘’Serving
Humanity and Sustainable Development our Vision.’’
The
first and prime project of Alo Bhubon Trust is the establishment of the South
Asia Centre for Medical Physics and Cancer Research (SCMPCR). He has the goal
to develop for advanced and innovative treatment of cancer patients not only in
Bangladesh but also in the South Asia region, considering the urgent need of
qualified manpower in these treatment sectors.
The projects of other
sectors will be started successively under Alo Bhubon Trust. All the projects
will be run by the efficient manpower defined in the organigram for each project. The board of trustee is well experienced and will act as a good
advisor to run the Alo Bhubon Trust.