Zakir Azad, Cumilla

Height is about 5 feet. Small people. Worked abroad for 40 years. Ever cut the rod. Ever worked in a restaurant. Now drive a taxi on the streets of New York too. Couldn't earn a living in America. He has no house in Cumilla and Dhaka.

Starting construction of a house in village house. The family could not take America either. He spent his life abroad leaving his wife and children in the country. Eat potato bharta and dal rice. This simple living man is Mosharraf Hossain Khan Chowdhury. He was born in Dhanyadaul village of Brahmanpara upazila of Cumilla . He built 10 educational institutions in his village and upazila with the income of his whole life.

Mosharraf Hossain Khan Chowdhury was born on December 31, 1964 to Abdur Razzak Khan Chowdhury and Mosammat Asheda Khatun Chowdhury. Abdur Razzak Khan Chowdhury's father died in 1974 when he was in fifth grade. Mother's path of suffering with 6 children. They get by with the help of their uncles. After passing high school in 1983, he went to Qatar. The purpose of going abroad is to take care of the family. After the brothers and sisters grew up, they focused on building educational institutions.

His paternal grandfather Siraj Khan Chowdhury established Dhanya Daul Government Primary School in 1937. Abdur Razzak Khan Chowdhury, father of Mosharraf Hossain Chowdhury, established a primary school in the remote area of Rangamati in 1957. He took teachers from the area and gave them jobs there. Following their path, Abdur Razzak Khan Chowdhury High School was established in 1989 in Dhanyadaul village in the name of his father.

In 1994 Asheda-Jobeda Forkaniya Madrasa was built in the name of Amma and Dadi. In 1999, Mosharraf Hossain Khan Chowdhury College was established at Brahmanpara upazila headquarters. In the same year, Abdul Matin Khosru established women's college in this upazila headquarters.

In 2002, Mumu established a school called Rohan Kindergarten. In 2010, he donated 1 bigha of land for the construction of Brahmanpara Diabetic Hospital. He arranged scholarships for the poor children of the area from the foundation established in his name.
Mosharraf Hossain Khan Chowdhury said, after the death of our father, we fell into the ocean.

To take responsibility for the family, I quit reading and joined work. The ancestors of the family built educational institutions. That addiction got me too. Most of the institutions belong to MPO. There are no financial benefits. Still spending my income in various institutions. It's my pleasure. I am working on how to standardize the educational system of the institutions. Besides, he has plans to set up an institute of technical education. He also said that he is planning to make the area illiterate free. He said, when I first started to establish an educational institution.

Different people have said different things. Someone said, there is more money. Money came pouring in. After a few days everything must be thrown away. However, there was the support of the local residents with their own mental toughness and some dedicated souls.

He said about giving time to the family, he went abroad after 14 days of marriage. The eldest child is a girl. He has been able to come to the country three times till he was 11 years old. A child is grown up before it can be held to the breast and caressed. boy is small First seen when he was three years old. Seeing a stranger, he did not want him to enter the house. That distance with the children has not yet diminished.

He said about donating the income of Sar Life, not everyone can donate. This requires God's mercy. For whomever God is, nature is also on his side. I was able to do these things because of his help. Not only me, Bangabandhu also made such a sacrifice, Mahatma Gandhi also made such a sacrifice. Someone has to do it, otherwise how will the next generation be enlightened.

He talks about happy memories when driving a taxi on the streets of America. The mind is depressed for various reasons. But when it comes to my mind, six to seven thousand students are studying in my institution in the country. Then the mind is filled with joy.
He also thanked former Law Minister Abdul Matin Khosru, former Education State Minister Ehchanul Haque Milan, former Upazila Chairman Jahangir Khan Chowdhury, his wife Faizun Nahar Chowdhury Pinu for their cooperation in all these works.

Cumilla Victoria Government College Principal Dr. Abu Zafar Khan said, Mosharraf Hossain Khan Chowdhury is an enlightened person. The society is enlightened by their light. Our salute to people who spend their entire life's income on education. If the number of such people increases, the society will be more enlightened.