The mission of the Bangladesh American Center (BAC) is to facilitate social, cultural, intellectual, and educational activities of the Bangladesh-American Community involving Bangladeshi Americans or any other groups generally interested in promoting BAC’s vision and core values. Bangladesh American Center is an ambitious community project of Bangladesh Association Houston, a nonprofit organization representing Bangladeshis in Houston over the past thirty years. Currently, the center is located on a four-acre land in the southwest part of Houston. It has a temporary facility used as the association’s office, language school, free medical clinic, and a place to host community, cultural, and private events. With an estimated construction cost of $2.2 million and built around a few fundamental principles, BAC is destined to become Bangladeshi-Houstonians’ pride. The basic concepts around which the center is designed are as follows:
• It shall physically represent the rich history and cultural heritage of Bangladesh.
• It shall nurture the intellectual growth and development of a new generation of Bangladeshi Americans and their acquaintances.
• It shall be a meeting place for community, inter-community national, international, public, and private events.
• It shall be a language, arts, ESL, computer training, and music school facility.
• It shall be a facility to provide free medical services.
• It shall promote business ventures for specialty ethnic food, crafts, and gifts and catalyze Bangladeshi business in Houston.
Core Values of Bangladesh American Center
- BAC shall be open to all freedom-loving people
- BAC shall promote and uphold the culture, heritage, and values of Bangladesh in North America
- BAC shall uphold the values stated in the BAH constitution
- BAC shall maintain true transparency in all of its financial accounts
- BAC shall be governed by a democratic process, where the majority shall rule, but the difference of opinions will be respected
- BAC shall remain non-political and secular
- BAC shall not allow any fundamentalism, cult, or fanaticism of any kind.
Team:
Chairman, Advisory Board: Hasan Rahman
Secretary General: Syed Dinar
Chief Engineer: Saddam Ahmad
Director of Operations: Mohammad Masoom