Flood Rehabilitation
Project to Rebuild a School in Kurigram
Bangladesh was once
again submerged under water during 2004 flood season. This was
one of the most devastating floods Bangladeshi people
encountered in last decade. Mukto Mona took a small but
valuable initiative to collect
donation for flood
affected people in Bangladesh. We collected 2, 34,205.86 taka or
S$ 6836.00. through personal donations of our members and
well-wishers. After initial surveys performed by Dr. Ajoy Roy and
his team in North Bengal area, Mukto-Mona advisory board decided
to spend the money in after flood rehabilitation program to
reconstruct a school in Roumari, a remote village in Kurigram....
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Fund Raising for Shahriar Kabir & Secular Activists
Mukto-Mona is very happy
to let you know that we had a very successful fund raising
campaign for Bangladeshi secular author and human rights activist
Mr. Shahriar Kabir and his associates, who had been seriously
injured in a road accident which took place on last November 11,
2004. We appreciate your generous monetary contributions to the
fund. Please see the list of contributors below. With your
contribution, so far we have been able to raise. (more)
Azad Memorial Fund
On MM member's request
Mrs. Azad (Latifa Khanam), wife of late Dr. Azad - our beloved
Mukto-Mona member, and their elder daughter Mouli agreed to
accept a sum as a donation from MM to the ‘Azad Memorial
Fund’, which the family would be raising to keep alive the
name of Dr. Humayun Azad, e.g. setting up a library in
his village home, a desire
of late Humaun Azad and a scholarship in his name for meritorious
and poor students. These are just some proposals with many others
came up during the discourse.... (more)
'Free
Dr.Younus Shaikh' Campaign
We feel great relief
about the outcome and satisfaction about the fact that the
MM's campaign with the worldwide humanists, rationalists,
freethinkers for the rescue of Dr. Shaikh has finally been
successful.
Among many forces inside
and outside Pakistan, friends and associates, Mukto-Mona has
vigorously contributed to this outcome. (more)
Campaign
to Bring ‘Bangla Bhai’ to justice
We the free spirit,
secularists, and humanists Bangalees and other South Asians
who belong to Mukto-mona ( www.mukto-mona.com ), a cyber forum
that promotes secular humanism throughout the world, are
unified to bring before you the news of an ominous development
in Bangladesh.
These are facts that we
culled from the newspapers published from Bangladesh in recent
weeks: For the last several months (March through May 2004) a
group of Muslim extremists by the name Jagrata Muslim Janata
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On River Interlinking Project
Mukto-Mona, an assembly of
freethinkers and humanists mostly from Bengali descent in the
Internet, voices up apprehension on the conception of River
Interlinking Project as envisaged by Indian Water Development
Agency. With the implementation of such project, which requires
the withdrawal of water from their natural courses and common
rivers, we believe that it would greatly harm not only the
delicate ecology of Bangladesh (as well as neighboring Indian
states such as West Bengal, Assam etc.) but also its economy and
put millions of people’s life at risk.... (more)