CMES has evolved through various activities towards a similar goal that proceeded its creation. Its founder Muhammad Ibrahim has been an enthusiast of taking science practically to the people starting from his high school days. He used to organize people-oriented exhibitions of science displaying various models and homemade instruments. He started to publish a popular science monthly for young people soon after in 1960, a journal which is still being regularly published all along these years under his editorship. This journal initiated many active programs and movements like 'Know your village', 'Know your country,' 'Do it yourself,' 'Bring Science home in your life' etc. Many branches of its Science Club were created throughout the country.
Dr. Ibrahim, by then an Associate Professor of Physics in the University of Dhaka, felt that the task on hand need an activist organization to take up the challenge in the real life in a professional manner. CMES was the result of this realization. This was established in 1978 and was registered under the Society's Act as a NGO.
More than three decades of development has enabled CMES to add new approaches and new achievements in the field of education, appropriate technology, gender, and empowerment of youth. It has taken steps to disseminate its experience and achievement and to replicate the efforts in various circumstances. Many thousands of young men and women have benefited as educated, skilled and empowered persons over the years. Dr. Ibrahim has led the organization all these years as Executive Director and Chairman of CMES. He and CMES have earned many honors and awards for these works, the latest being the Prix Caritas 2009 Award of Switzerland.
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