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Outlook: Bringing Schools to Bangladeshi Hills

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Maung Nyeu

10/02/2016 GMT

Bringing Schools to Bangladeshi Hills

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The Harvard student from the Bangladeshi hills bringing education to hundreds of children

Maung Nyeu is from a remote Bangladeshi hill tribe. After gaining a scholarship to Harvard University he went back home to start a village school for disadvantaged children.

Maung Nyeu's learning journey took him from one side of the world to the other - and then back again. He says he owes his life to education. Maung was born in a remote mountainous area in the south-eastern corner of Bangladesh called the Chittagong Hill Tracts. It is home to indigenous groups which have their own languages and customs. He grew up speaking the Marma language rather than the official language of Bangladesh, Bangla. Maung told Outlook that when the time came for him to attend school he found himself in a difficult position.

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Steven Spielberg's ET: The Extra Terrestrial is recognised by critics and film fans as one of the greatest movies of all time but the video game based on the film has been called the worst video game of all time. So bad, that in the early 1980s it was blamed for causing the collapse of a billion dollar company. This incident has defined the life of one man in particular. The designer of the game was Howard Scott Warshaw. Howard told Outlook that it was at the age of 23 that he landed his dream job at the tech company Atari.

(Photo: Maung Nyeu. Credit: Sujin Joo)

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