A day in the life of Junaid

Eleven-year-old Muhammad Junaid Mushfiq has been living for three and half years in a Hefzkhana - a school (madrasa) for boys to study the Holy Quran. The school called Rangamati Baitus-Sharif Zabbari Madrasa is located in Rangamati, a district in the Southeast of Bangladesh. All students who want to become a Hafez - "the one who memorises the Holy Quran" - live together in the hostel of the madrasa. Muhammad only sees his family every two months. Once he knows the Quran by heart and has passed the final exam he will join a regular school for further study. The education in a madrasa typically lasts as long as he needs to study and memorise the whole Quran.