CHILDREN FOR LEAD FREE PAINT
Dhaka, 29 October, 2016: This year, ESDO observed the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint –GAELP week 2016 with a motto of banning lead in paint in Bangladesh. As a part of this movement, ESDO organized an art competition on Saturday, 29th October at Dhanmondi, where more than hundred children participated and expressed through their painting work how harmful the Lead paint can be for our health and environment. They demanded to ban lead paint in Bangladesh by 2017 and to take immediate step to introduce national mandatory paint standard as 50ppm. (more…)