This document summarizes BRAC's Education for Ethnic Children (EEC) program which aims to provide education to ethnic minority children in Bangladesh. Some key points:
1. The EEC program covers 34 ethnic communities and has enrolled over 49,000 primary students and 45,000 graduate students.
2. The curriculum emphasizes introducing children to their own culture and language while also developing skills in the local majority language. Materials have been developed in local languages.
3. Teacher training focuses on methods to teach using both the local mother tongue and the majority language, with refresher sessions held monthly.
4. A Chakma language based education program was launched in 2008 across 10 schools, using Chakma