Gonobidyalaya is a non-residential school with aiming to impart skill development training and basic needs oriented non-formal education, paying special attention to the disadvantaged youths like school drop outs, unemployed youth, young women in difficult situation, landless farmers, artisans and craftsmen.

  Education in Bangladesh is certificate-oriented, exam-centred and exhibits an example of learning by rote. After leaving the formal educational institutes, young men or women in Bangladesh hardly obtain any specialized skill; neither do they possess awareness of the realities of the world, which they will soon face in their actual lives. Besides, due to acute poverty, parents even with their best intentions, cannot afford to continue the education of their children.

That is why the need is felt to have special schools targeting the resource-constrained segment of the people, a kind of a school, which will be 'School for Life' rather than just an institute to pass examination or to receive a certificate. Hence the idea of the ‘Gonobidyalaya’ (People’s School) emerged.