Bangladesh has 42 million children in its primary and secondary school, and every year, on the first day of the year, the kids are handed, free of charge, new textbooks to take them through the academic year. In total, 353,144,554 textbooks are being handed out directly or delivered to schools as part of the now … Continue reading Bangladesh handed out 353 million school text books on New Year’s Day. 2.2 billion books in total since the programme began