Abrar Hussain: Facebook authorities have selected Bangladeshi entrepreneur Razib Ahmed as fellow of its ‘Community Leadership Program’ for his group ‘Search English’ in which members help each other to become more fluent in English.
Razib Ahmed, former president of the e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB), will receive a grant of US$ 50,000 for the project.
On Monday, the tech giant said it had selected five people into its ‘Community Leadership Program’ as leaders in residence, and more than 100 people as fellows and youth participants from 6,000 applicants from around the world.
The social media giant is giving up to $1 million to each leader in residence to fund their community projects, and up to $50,000 to every fellow and youth participant.
With the slogan ‘Learn English to Change Life’, the group was founded in June 2016 by Razib Ahmed along with Abul Khayer, Neyamot Ullah and SM Mehdi Hasan. At present, the group has more than 1.6 million users.
“This recognition will not only motivates us but also will help us to reach more people to help learning English,” ‘Search English’ co-founder Abul Khayer told UNB while expressing their joy.
“We want to spread our program to every village of the country will participation of more than 10 million users.”
Earlier last year, Facebook Business, an official page of the social media giant, released a video featuring the achievements of the Bangladeshi public group ‘Search English’.