User:Zisan Rehman/sandbox

Zisan Rehman is a Bangladeshi Social entrepreneur, Activist & Founding President of Penny For Many.

Career
Mr. Rehman was born in 1991 in a middle class family at Dhaka, Bangladesh. His father Ansari Khan was a photo-journalist in Qatar National Printing Press & mother Lily Islam was a housewife. He completed his SSC from Monipur School & College & HSC from Ideal College. Mr. Rehman completed his graduation from Hariot-Watt University, UK & also ACCA (part-2) qualified. From the school life he was involved with many social activities. After completing his education, he joined a UK based INGO named Charity Right. He is a gold member of Global Citizen, general member of Global Economic Forum & International Model United Nations. He was the Head of Administration & Logistics of TEDx Gulshan in 2020. Also, he was the head of program & training of an UN founded project named Leadership Excellence & Development (LEAD) from 2018 to 2022. In more than 9 years of vast experience, he worked in reputed INGO & NGO and worked with many segments in social development sector like-education & training, health, food security & child nutrition, emergency response, disaster management, climate action, refugee rescuing and management, resource mobilization & program development etc. In November 2019 he founded a social organization Penny For Many out of his personal responsibilities. It’s a Dhaka-based voluntary organization.

About Penny For Many
It’s a Dhaka-based voluntary organization. Primarily they started their free schooling program in Mirpur-11 for supporting the underprivileged children of these area. Also, they are providing the helpless and deprived people with food and other daily commodities from the very beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. They have also made many peoples life sustainable through our livelihood project. Also, they are working in many sectors such as Food, Health, Water & sanitation, Zakat management, Child care & Girls rights, Qurbani, Iftar, Shelter management etc. Penny For Many provides free quality education/academic coaching to the underprivileged and poor children. Those children who do not get the chance to continue their study from their childhood. As a result, they dropped out before finishing the primary level. Whenever a child loses his/her right to education, nourishment and other necessary privileges, the nation also loses its potential to grow. Parents who cannot fulfill the basic needs of families make their young children work on the streets, shops and even in houses. The bright future of them shatters this way. They have to face a lot all over the day, which gives a negative impact on their personality psychologically. So, PFM took an initiative to provide educational and other necessary privileges to the underprivileged children till now.

Penny For Many has started the journey to ensure the basic education to the underprivileged children. They are providing full Free Quality Education, free School Uniform, free Books, Notes and stationeries, daily nutritious food, yearly Sports, free Medical Health Checkup and free Medicines. They have a total 6 qualified teachers per subject and other members for ensuring the proper care of our students. Gradually, now they have a total of 200 students in our school. Basically, their students are from those poor houses of the nearest the slums, whose parents work for a very low income, such as driving a rickshaw or working in someone’s house. Till now Penny For Many has supported total 21000+ beneficiaries, including 4500 families, made 600+ people self-reliant, ensure proper education for 400 children & orphans via their many projects.

Awards & Certifications

 * Top 100 Young Talent in Asia, 2021''' by MonStar, Malaysia.
 * Awardee of ‘Global Peace & Humanitarian Award 2021’, Dubai.
 * Nominated for the ‘Robert Burns Humanitarian Award 2023’, Scotland.
 * Awardee of the ‘Mahatma Gandhi Peace Awards 2023’, India.
 * Nominated for the ‘Rise Health Care Hero Award 2023’, Chicago.
 * Certificate of Participation on Pop-Up Festival 2020 by Six Seconds & UNICEF.
 * Certificate of Participation on World Climate Run 2021 by Thurst & WWF.
 * Certificate on UN-SDG Leadership Training''' by LEAD & Pearson