Teach For Bangladesh hosts Capstone Symposium 2025 to showcase student-led impact

Teach For Bangladesh (TFB) hosted its annual Capstone Symposium 2025 on 13 September in Dhaka, celebrating the transformative journeys of its Fellows, students, and communities. This year's theme, "Grounded in Purpose, Soaring with Impact", highlighted how Fellows remain rooted in their vision and values while taking bold strides to create lasting change.

The Symposium recognised 20 outstanding projects, selected from 79 initiatives led by fellows, students, and community members. Collectively, these projects directly engaged 20,130 students and reached an estimated 132,650 individuals nationwide. They addressed pressing challenges across ten categories, including girls' education, mental health, climate resilience, digital readiness, child protection, and economic empowerment.

Special Guest Dr Md Safayet Alam, Senior Specialist at the National Curriculum and Textbook Board, praised the alignment of classroom learning with community problems, "Every project today connected real challenges with education and empowered students with agency. Proper education can ensure that children are able to shape their own lives and decisions."

Chief Guest Syed Mamunul Alam, Additional Secretary (Planning) at the Ministry of Education added, "Teach For Bangladesh is making students creative and critical thinkers. The Capstone projects show how education can foster resilience, agency, and innovation even in marginalised communities."

The Symposium's vision emphasised connecting Fellows with communities, celebrating student transformation, and positioning young people as active agents of change. Fellows presented innovative approaches that demonstrated how children's growth in knowledge, skills, and mindset can take flight—showcasing confidence, agency, and leadership in action. The event also created opportunities for stakeholders to explore sustainable change and stronger partnerships in education.

In her closing remarks, Munia Islam Mozumder, Chief Executive Officer of Teach For Bangladesh, reflected: "Behind every student's growth is a teacher's belief in their potential. Today, we witnessed that belief in action. Together—with Fellows, alumni, and partners—we will continue to nurture future leaders for Bangladesh."

Hasibur Rahman, Director of Programmes, added: "The Capstone journey reminds us that education is more than knowledge—it is about cultivating leadership, creativity, and agency in every child."

This year, The Business Standard (TBS) partnered with Teach For Bangladesh as the official media partner of the event. Through this collaboration, the voices of students from high-need communities were amplified on a national platform, ensuring their perspectives, aspirations, and challenges reached a wider audience.

Through the Capstone Symposium 2025, Teach For Bangladesh reaffirmed its commitment to building a movement of leaders working alongside communities to end educational inequity. The event left participants inspired, motivated, and determined to advance purposeful action for a more equitable future for Bangladesh's children.