Bangladesh’s Rikta on BBC’s list of 100 influential women.
Bangladeshi social worker Rikta Akhter Banu has been included in the BBC’s list of 100 influential and inspiring women of 2024. She works with children with special talents or autism in a remote area of the northern region. The list was published on the website of this British media outlet today.
According to the BBC, nurse Rikta Akhter Banu lives in a remote area of northern Bangladesh. Where autistic or disabled children are seen as a curse.
About Rikta Akhter, they say that she could not get her autistic and cerebral palsy-affected daughter admitted to a local primary school, so she sold her land and established a school.
‘Rikta Akhter Banu Learning Disability School’ now enrolls 300 students and has played an important role in changing society’s attitude towards disabilities. The school was initially built for children with autism or learning disabilities, but it now also caters to children with a variety of intellectual and physical disabilities.
Other notable figures on the BBC’s 2024 list of 100 Women include Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, astronaut Sunita Williams, rape victim Giselle Pellicott, American actress Sharon Stone, and Olympic athlete Rebecca Andrade.
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