Get involved

Teach a class. Support a term. Bring us into a school.

Three ways to get involved

  • Teach

    Bengali required

    Teach with GLB

    Join our team of volunteer English teachers and lead regular classes focused on conversation, participation and practical use of English.

    Our teaching opportunities include both online and in-person classes. Bengali and English are required so teachers can communicate clearly with students and adapt activities when needed. The average weekly workload is around 2–3 hours a week.

    Write to us about teaching

  • Give

    From 1€ a month

    Support the program

    Donations help us sustain regular English classes, develop teaching materials, support our volunteer teachers and strengthen the program as it grows.

    You can contribute through a one-time donation or with a monthly contribution.

    Support a term

  • Partner

    Schools · NGOs · universities

    Partner with GLB

    We collaborate with schools, community organisations, NGOs and universities interested in developing English-learning opportunities with us.

    Each partnership is shaped around the organisation, the students and the educational setting. Together, we look at where GLB’s curriculum, teachers and wider network can contribute and how the program can be adapted to fit that context.

    Talk to us about partnering

What happens after you write

  1. You write

    Tell us where you are, when you can teach, and what you can commit to.

  2. A short call

    We talk through the class, the school, and the hours, and answer whatever the site didn’t.

  3. Training

    Before your first class we take you through the curriculum, the materials, and how a session actually runs, bilingual and conversation first. You don’t need a teaching qualification, and our teacher trainer runs a workshop every month once you start.

  4. Your first class

    You’re matched to a partner school and a weekly slot, and you start teaching.

Before you write

The questions we’re asked most, answered plainly. If yours isn’t here, ask it below.

Do I need to speak Bengali to teach?

Yes. Classes are taught bilingually, so you need Bengali as well as English. It is what stops a student being stranded the moment a word doesn’t land, and it is the reason many of our volunteers are Bangladeshi, teaching in the country they or their families come from.

How do I become a volunteer teacher?

Write to us with where you are, when you can teach each week, and how your Bengali is. A confident command of both languages matters more to us than a teaching qualification. Training, materials and the method all come with the role.

What is the time commitment?

Two hours a week, for at least three months. The commitment is the point: the same volunteer in front of the same class, week after week, is what makes the class work. Sessions are scheduled around your time zone.

Where do the classes actually happen?

In three partner schools (Cox’s Bazar, Dhaka and Chittagong), all run in partnership with the Bidyanondo Foundation. GLB started in Cox’s Bazar and taught there for its first two years.

What ages do you teach?

Mostly children between 8 and 18, with the curriculum adapted by age and by how much English a group already has.

How are donations used?

They fund the running of the classes: materials, the technology the sessions depend on, and the administration behind them. Because we work through schools that already exist, a gift stays traceable to a specific classroom rather than to overhead.

See where a gift goes

Can organisations partner with GLB?

Yes. Schools and NGOs already serving these children, universities that want a standing chapter, and companies backing a term. We add English-teaching capacity to what you already run; we don’t replace anyone.

Write to us.A person reads it.

Ten volunteers, three partner schools. Small enough that your email reaches someone who knows the classroom you’re asking about.

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Each one opens your mail app with the subject filled in, and the volunteering and partnership notes come with the questions we’d ask you anyway.