A child in Korail slum is
solving the problems
no one else will.
Korail is Dhaka's largest slum. We give its children a computer, a mentor, and the skills to build real solutions for their own community.
A slum the size of 90 acres, pressed against Dhaka's richest neighbourhoods.
Korail is the largest slum in Dhaka. More than 200,000 people live on 90 acres of land, pressed between two of the city's wealthiest neighbourhoods.
Many came here after losing everything to floods and cyclones. Our classroom in Banani is less than a kilometre from where they sleep.
Verified fire record · Korail
Most fires caused by electrical short circuits or gas leaks. Lanes are too narrow for fire trucks; the slum has a single congested entry point.
Three problems waiting for someone from inside the community to solve.
Fire
Homes of tin and bamboo, packed tight. Lanes too narrow for fire trucks. In November 2025, a single fire left thousands homeless overnight.
Water & Sanitation
After every disaster, families go without clean water and toilets. Sanitation is fragile even on a normal day.
Opportunity
Bright children. No computers, no path out. Talent waiting for tools.
“These aren't problems to be pitied. They're problems waiting for someone from inside the community to solve them. That's what we build.”
School is good. It is not enough.
Reading and arithmetic matter. But what do they do for a child who goes home to a place that can burn down overnight? After school, we teach these children to build real answers to real problems.
Every child deserves the chance to shape their own future.
In Korail, a child can build a fire-alert system for the street her family sleeps on.
Same potential. Higher stakes.
Today
These children should not have to wait ten years to face the dangers they live with right now. We give them the tools today.
Tomorrow
A child who can spot a problem, use technology to solve it, and see it through carries that skill for life.
We don't give charity.
We build changemakers.
We don't teach children to memorise. We teach them to build — to find a real problem in their own community, and design a working answer to it.
Four moves. A structured, research-based mentorship method.
Observation
We start with what the child sees in their own community — what hurts, what's missing.
Framing
A mentor works one-on-one to turn a big problem into a question the child can answer.
Prototype
The child builds, tests, fails, tries again. Guided, never spoon-fed. Failure is part of learning.
Ownership
The result is a solution that is theirs — built from their own life.
We didn't start with Korail by accident.
It's where we began.
Our origin story.
The Tech Academy's very first work was teaching street children — many from Korail itself. This community is where we started.
CAFFE — Computers Are Free For Everyone, a registered UK charity, partners with us to give free computer and vocational training to young people from low-income homes — from coding and robotics to web design and trades.
A child's idea is only the beginning. Real partners carry it forward.
When a Korail child builds a real solution, it needs real-world support to reach families. We partner with people who have spent decades inside these communities.
BLAST
One of Bangladesh's largest legal aid organisations, working in over nineteen districts to support people who cannot afford a lawyer.
Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK)
A human rights and legal aid organisation, founded in 1986. Long history of supporting working children and women.
“Whenever a child creates a solution, the right people — with years of experience inside this community — are there to help it grow. The impact belongs to the community.”
Five children. One mission.
A fire-alert system for their own community.
The Fire-Alert Team.
Mission · build a fire-alert system for KorailThese five children go to school like any other. This is what they do after school. They are building a system that could warn their neighbours before the next fire spreads — in a place where fires hit four times in two years.
They are not in a hobby club. They are solving a danger their own families sleep next to. That is the difference a sponsor backs.
Sponsoring the team funds the whole effort, end to end.
Names and details shown here are placeholders pending child-safeguarding consent.
Real numbers. Three stages.
A child's journey runs in three stages. Here is what each one costs.
Onboarding
Students learn about different technologies — the foundation everything else is built on.
Foundation
They go deep into a specific skill that will carry them through their incubation project.
Incubation
They build the real product or service — final cost depends on project complexity.
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Tell us what you have in mind. A member of The Tech Academy team will reply within 2 working days — no automated replies, no pressure.
The Tech Academy, operating under Gamify Limited. Banani, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Who we are
The Tech Academy is the educational arm of Gamify Limited, registered in Bangladesh. Full legal details on request.
How we report
- · Quarterly photo and progress updates.
- · Project demos at end of each cycle.
- · Annual outcomes report, with named partners.
- · GDPR-compliant data handling for EU donors.
Contact
- experts@thetechacademy.net
- +88 01347-351621
- Banani, Dhaka 1213, Bangladesh