Taiyabur Rahman Chowdhury MBE ( bn, রহমান চৌধুরী; 16 August 1943 – 17 November 2016) was a

Bangladeshi Bangladeshis ( bn, বাংলাদেশী ) are the citizens of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centered on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay. Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the ...

-born

social work Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being. Social work ...

er for Bradford Adoption and Fostering Services in

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, United Kingdom. He also served as President of the Bangladesh Peoples Association, and was a founding member and Trustee of Tawakulia Jamia Masjid in Bradford.

Early life

Chowdhury was born in the village of Rajapur, Derai, Sunamganj, in what was then East Pakistan. He was the third child, and had two sisters and three brothers. Chowdhury attended

MC College Murari Chand College ( bn, মুরারিচাঁদ কলেজ) (usually referred to as MC College) was the first college in the Sylhet Division. It was established in 1892, making it the seventh oldest college in Bangladesh. Since then i ...

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. Chowdury emigrated to the UK in 1963

Social work

Chowdhury graduated from the University of Bradford with a degree in social care He then began working with Bradford Adoption and Fostering Services and helped more than 50 couples with adoption. Shortly after retiring, Chowdhury was awarded with an

MBE Mbe may refer to: * Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo * Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria * Mbe language, a language of Nigeria * Mbe' language, language of Cameroon * ''mbe'', ISO 639 code for the extinct Molala language Molal ...

in 2016 for "services to children and families".

Other

Chowdhury also served as president of Bangladesh Peoples Association in Bradford for six years and in 1971 was president of the Bradford Bangladesh Liberation Movement and was an appointed JP in Bradford Magistrates Court.

References

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