Niigata couple recognized for building school in Bangladeshi village

Living in central Japan's Niigata Prefecture, 52-year-old Md Nurul Elahi and his wife Misako, 69, find nothing more fulfilling in life than seeing the shining eyes of children who have discovered the joy of learning.The Bangladeshi-Japanese couple's desire to give children in Elahi's hometown access to education, and contribute to the development of the South Asian nation, spurred them to open an elementary school in 2017 in the small farming village of Namaputia, using about 6 million yen ($56,000) they gathered in donations in Japan.Their achievement was recognized on June 15 by Niigata a…READ FULL ARTICLE