4.4 from 1972 abed had built 5.1 metavillage 15000 homes for 100000 refugees which became a lab for designing livelihood microfranchises for poorest village mothers so they could make positive income while urgently saving the community - eg 2.1 rice production to end starvation; action-learning of basic infant health services to stop children from dying before age of 5 -most did when bangladesh's new and 8th most populous nation was founded -due to being the world's poorest nation, 90% without access to electricity, in the tropics
29 years later when abed opened a university, one question to ask : what could the university invent that would change world of billion poorest mothers? the university as a collab for innovation is potentially totally different than a metavillage of 100000 people living without electricity - the village space that the first 25 years of abed's 50 years of linking partners to end poverty
one idea may sound counter-intuitive for such a higher ed platfor,- early childhood playschools ECP- brac university became the first university in the world to offer an ecp masters; the result ecp became a 2010s movement - the world bank now claims 50 nations experimenting with this https://blogs.worldbank.org/education/world-bank-s-unwavering-commitment-early-childhood-education https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/964641554906838005-0090022019/original/ELPECEbriefV9PRINT.pdf
whilst not every nation may design ecp the way abed does; everyone who gets involved with ecp's global movement knows abed's local advice- design playschool in which children see teacher lovers them - that's how children first learn most at school
it helps that lego has become a huge corporate sponsor; and the yidan prize was awarded to abed for ecp but has since be inspired by him to start a luminaries council- where every different jigsaw piece of education where children are loved is discussed across disciplines age groups between those wizards in edutech (yidan co-founded china's largest tech company tencent0 and those teachers whose love is experienced every second at school
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