Abstract

This paper focuses on the national attention on working urban children and their
educational needs. Through implementation of the “Basic Education for Hard to Reach Urban Children
Project” it has benefited about 346500 children aged between 8-14 years by providing non-formal basic
education across the six divisional cities of Bangladesh. The main objective of the project was
established ways for children engaged in hazardous labor to gain access to education. It emerged that
working urban children were also hard to reach because the education system has not regarded them as
potential clients, because investment flows were against them and because their communities did not
think their education was necessary.

Key words: Basic Education, Hard to Reach, Non-Formal Education.