BSAUA

BSAUA ( Bangladeshi Students Association at University of Alberta) is the organization for the Bangladeshi students at the University of Alberta. BSAUA has been created with a vision of working as a community hub for the Bangaldeshi Students at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.Since founded, it’s trying to explore the diverse culture and rich history of Bangladesh and its people to the students of the University of Alberta.

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History

BSAUA was founded on November 6, 2001. At that time five members volunteered to form an Executive Committee, whose purpose was to organize socio-cultural activities within the community.Later on, to facilitate the smooth running of the organization, a constitution was built with the consent of all existing members on November, 2001.

Membership

Any past or present (both undergraduate and graduate) student or postdoctoral fellow of the University of Alberta can be a member of BSAUA. All members will have equal right to vote. The members will take part in a general election to select an executive committee. All members will have to pay an annual membership fee of CD$10.

Executive Committee

The executive committee will have President, VP admin, VP finance, VP Culture,VP Communication,VP entertainment, and VP sports. A new executive committee will be formed every year during the annual general meeting, which will take place preferably on the first Saturday of January every year. Any member, with the support of at least two other members, can place a request in front of the executive committee to impeach one of the executive committee members. In such a case, the president of the committee will have to call a special session of the members. The members will cast their yes/no vote to decide whether to keep the executive committee member in his post or not. A two third plus one vote will be required to remove the member from his post. If a post becomes vacant the president will have to take over the responsibility of that post, until a new election is held to nominate a member for the post.

Regular Activities

BSAUA organize orientation program at every fall and winter terms along with term ending programs, summer picnic and barbeque. Besides, every year BSAUA organize get together on the occasion of our two greatest religious festivals Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Adha. In each and every program, organizing committee arranges some sort of cultural programs as musical show, talk show, debates and kids show to preserve the diverse culture of Bangladesh.

Left: BSAUA Members in a Blood Donation Program (2007), Right: BSAUA Orientation Program (2007)

For the last two years on 21 February BSAUA have been organizing Blood Donation Programs with collaboration with Bangladesh Canada Association Edmonton (BCAE) and Blood Donor Clinic, on the memory of our language movement in 1952 which become the International Mother Language Day declared by UNESCO on 17 November 1999. This also helps our next generation to be familiar with own culture and history as well. Members of BSAUA also organize and do voluntary during Heritage Festival in Edmonton to explore their culture in front of the peoples from different countries all through the world.

Beside the regular program as orientation, term ending and Eid programs in 2007 BSAUA arranges two fundraising programs due to the occurrences of two major natural disaster: divesting flood followed by the cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh within two months . With the collaboration of BCAE and Red Cross we arranged fundraising booth at U of A, malls, mosques and also a fundraising dinner.

Despite of all those activities BSAUA also helps new Bangladeshi students to adapt themselves in a new culture by providing valuable information regding preparation for travel, housing, lifestyle, cost of living, food and so on. BSAUA keep all these information together with the existing members list and their contact in its website ([http://www.ualberta.ca/~bsaua]). BSAUA website also updated with its past and future event list and a picture and video gallery for those events. BSAUA also maintain friendly communication with other student organizations of different countries.

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