Dr. Saidur Rahman Lasker Academy

The Academy is the first high school in the village and the second in the Union of Khandarpara teaching over 200 local boys and girls from Class VI to X. The Academy has received recognition from the Ministry of Education, Government of Bangladesh as a “Ninmo Madhyamic” (lower-middle) school to teach up to Class VIII. The Academy started from humble beginnings and has undergone a rapid growth in t

he ensuing years. It started off with merely XX students and YY teachers in 2003, and has now expanded to over 200 students and 12 full-time teachers. The initial student population of the Academy consisted of boys and girls from the adjacent Khandarpara Kindergarten (founded in 2001). The Saidur Rahman Lasker Academy is set on the grounds of the Lasker Bari in the village of Khandarpara. The school has a land area of about 100 decimal and a pucca building with tin shed having 7 classrooms and 1 resource room for teachers. The grounds of the school also include an ample play area used both as an assembly area as well as for sports and games – including hosting the annual Sports Day each winter. The 2011 Sports Day was presided over by the Hon. Muhammad Faruk Khan, MP, Minister for Commerce in the Government of Bangladesh in January 2011. The Academy was founded in 2003 by Mr. Romano Sayeed Lasker, Humanitarian Affairs Officer of the United Nations in New York. The Academy is named after his father, Dr. Saidur Rahman Lasker - a retired Commodity Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations in Rome, Italy. The Academy has also received the generous support of Dr. Lasker’s two daughters, Shawarna Sayeed Lasker and Kona Haque who have contributed towards the salary payments of the teachers.