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Mamunur Rahman, an inspiring Bangladeshi student, who won Scholarship at the University of Sussex, UK. The Chevening Scholarship opened the doors to the international world for him.

“I became the University of Sussex alumni coordinator and the following year I was invited to give a talk to the students. Since then, I just kept on getting connected to all the right people,” he said.

Mamunur’s initiative ELLA Pad, run by poor working women, makes low-cost sanitary napkins made of garment waste. About four million women work in 5,000 garment factories in Bangladesh.

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How to win a Chevening Scholarship, plus two more Chevening Scholarship recipient Mamunur Rahman from Bangladesh wowed judges with his clever solution to a big problem: sanitary pads.