OGGRO – Agamir
Youth Solidarity Fund (YSF)
Farzeen Ferdous Alam is the Founding President of OGGRO, a youth based organizations in Bangladesh. He started OGGRO while in high school and subsequently dropped out and continued his studies privately in order to dedicate time to OGGRO during its infancy. His risk paid off when OGGRO was selected as one of the winners prestigious Youth Solidarity Fund award of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAoC) in 2009. The following year he was honored by MTV Staying Alive Foundation UK for “outstanding achievement in HIV/AIDs awareness”. Farzeen has developed numerous social business models in order to transform OGGRO from a fund dependent organization to a self sufficient one. He is currently in his final year of undergraduate studies in Economics at University of Dhaka.
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