MTB Foundation celebrates World Autism Awareness Day 2025

Dhaka : To commemorate the 'World Autism Awareness Day 2025', MTB Foundation in partnership with PFDA-Vocational Training Center Trust (PFDA-VTC)-recently celebrated this year's theme 'Advancing Neurodiversity and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)' by unveiling the training module developed for the Capacity Development of teachers, parents, caregivers and students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) for Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH).

The program module has been developed with a view to addressing topics such as understanding boundaries, consent, personal hygiene and social communication challenges that children with ASD experience.

The objective of the module is to empower parents, teachers and caregivers to identify the need and strength of children with ASD by creating an opportunity for them to work alongside special education experts and therapists which, in turn, will provide an organized support system for the students with special needs.

MTB Foundation, through this project, intends to support Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), 4 (Quality Education), 5 (Gender Quality), and 10 (Reduced Inequalities).

The event was organized at the PFDA-VTC premises in the presence of Samia Chowdhury, Chief Executive Officer, MTB Foundation; Jannatul Ferdous, Health Systems Specialist, UNICEF; Dr SM Asib Nasim, Advisor; and Begum Nur Jahan Dipa, Principal of PFDA - VTC.