Celebrating World Localization Day 2024 in Village

In Bangladesh, we celebrated localization with a 3-days event in village where over three hundred community members joined the event and enjoyed different programs including: local games and sports, display of cultural elements including cultural dresses, cultural farming tools, and cultural foods and fruits. The event ended with a cultural and musical afternoon.

Display of local food and cultural elements

At this moment of rapid globalization It is important to include young generation and teenagers in preserving local culture and valuing local food for having a healthy community. Thus, we invited school students and the local community to visit and see display of the local food, fruits and cultural elements.

Local games

One of the important element of localization is to keep the local community connected to each other. Local games and sports can truly play a vital role in connecting us to our roots, to bringing back some elements of happy life through playing together. In this event, we prepared local games and over hundreds of children and teenagers joined the different groups and enjoyed a refreshing happy day.

Cultural show program

We ended the village localization event with a cultural show program where the participants danced and sang local songs. Different age groups of people joined the event, socialized with each other over tea and local snacks. To challenge the participants understanding of localization, we also circulated quizzes and the winners were given trees to plant in their gardens.

Upcoming Event: Celebrating World Localization Day 2024 in Dhaka (Day long program)

• Display; Each team will display according to their theme and work 1. Healthy lifestyle 2. Environment and liveable cities merge 3. Display of the local culture, food, and Garo/other Indigenous Tradition

• Open discussion on localization among the network organizations and the participants. Also, Debate (Topic: local vs. global among the school students)
• Cultural event: Role play on healthy food and healthy lifestyle, reciting poem, Performing Bangla song, Garo/other indigenous culture represents and other Bengali traditional dance and song performance

Capacity building on Localization (whole June month)

• Local – Webinar (Localization and environment issues)
• Debate (Local vs. Global among school students)
• Talkshows -2 (1 Bangla, 1 English)