The Dhaka Times Desk ChalkPencil.com, an organization working to enhance children's creativity, received its first angel investment.
This company is dedicated to delivering quality arts and crafts, children's brain development toys and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics) materials to the next generation. The founder of the company, Saif Al Deen Farabi, said that my career started with a private bank. After that, I worked in an advertising agency for some time. ChalkPencil was launched in early 2019 with the aim of engaging children and teenagers in more creative activities. Chalkpencil has been operating on a small scale since its inception. But like everyone else during the Corona lockdown, we also understand the mental condition of young children. The wild children who were running around all day, suddenly they were imprisoned in an invisible chain. They have nothing to do except watching cartoons and watching mobile games or YouTube. Just then we decided to reduce this screen time of children and keep them busy with creative work.
Chalkpencil is working to increase the awareness of children's age-based creative development and proper parenting. The organization is moving forward with creative and joyful adolescent programs for children keeping in mind these three words: Play, Learn, Grow. At the same time, reducing children's screen time is also helping them use that time for intellectual and creative pursuits. In addition, the organization is also working for the improvement and modernization of all the products needed by children with special needs to develop their talents. The company is constantly trying to ensure world-class safe products, modern packing and nationwide free home delivery service.
Founder Saif Al Deen Farabi said, how much of what we are teaching our children every day is correct and helpful in their age-based mental development? Parents themselves may not know the truth. We want the next generation to grow up with proper intelligence. We are working on it. He emphasized on world class safe products, quality packaging and fast delivery system. He also said that Chalkpencil is relentlessly developing new products and developing quality to create a Bangladeshi brand that can gain a place in the global market. Children in the developed world do not get even ten percent of the stationery products or brain development toys that children in the developed world get to grow creatively. Chokpencil aims to make world class products available to even the remotest children so that they can grow up perfectly in this competitive world. Only then will we have a prosperous future. And for this purpose we need new investment.
New investors led by M Asif Rahman, founder of IT company WP Developer and ARCom, have made this investment. WP Developer CEO Nazmul Hasan Rupak is one of these investors. Chalkpencil welcomes this investment from young investors.
Regarding the investment in Chalkpencil, M Asif Rahman said, 'The business concept of Chalkpencil is new and contemporary. Initiatives that work to develop children's creativity are truly commendable. Such initiatives are very necessary for the healthy development of children and future generations of Bangladesh. Personally, I completely prevent my two children from using mobile phones. I myself feel the lack of good and effective teaching materials for their creative intellectual development and leisure time. The materials that are available are also not readily available. Even if it is found again, the quality remains doubtful. From there I felt that a domestic brand could become an alternative to all these. I have closely observed the plans of the organization. All in all, I think ChalkPencil has great potential. Chalkpencil can stand as a sustainable business model and a domestic brand in the global market with good investment.
Founder Saif Al Deen Farabi said that ChokPencil is going to start operations on a bigger and wider scale with the money of this new investment. This initial investment money will be used mainly in these three sectors of procurement of new products, production and quality improvement of own products and improved customer service.
Through this investment, Chalkpencil's own products will reach more widely to students in remote areas of the country. Chalkpencil is going to bring services closer to customers in a new and different level with great packages and gift items. Chalkpencil's regular packages include children's event packages, prizes and corporate gift packages. Which brings a new dimension to gift giving. Also, activities of parents community group – Chalkpencil Parents Club – are going to be widely expanded to inspire children in various creative activities on social media Facebook. Along with this, the activities of Chalkpencil Teachers Club - Chalkpencil Teachers Club - formed by the school and college teachers of the country are also about to start. Above all, we believe that www.chalkpencil.com will develop as a reliable brand in the country and abroad with advanced services and world-class products.
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