Bhela is a Non-profitable and Non-political Social Welfare and Development Organization founded by a group of people committed to create a better society on 6th October, 1998 in Dinajpur, Bangladesh.
Bhela has been working with social and economical disadvantaged people especially by undertaking educational, cultural and development activities. Its educational activities are aimed to minimize the dropout rate of the children from the school and protect youth especially girls from Child Early and Force Marriage (CEFM) which is common phenomena in Bangladesh. Its development activities are aimed to support social and economical disadvantaged community people in order to mainstreaming them.
- At present we support a total of 16-20 children of a slum for their daily homework.
- We support a total of 14-20 ? scheduled caste children (sweeper families) in their homework. Their parents of this caste are mostly analphabet and early marriage is a common practice among the caste.
- We support a total of 25 pupils of drag addicted parents in their homework. Some of these parents are under 18 years of old and are unable to take care of themselves and their children.
- Besides helping the children in homework, we also provide counseling for their family members. We take the children and their parents to the doctors in case of illness and arrange to buy medicines for them. We also distribute food products among the needy families every now and then.
- Once a month all of our beneficiary like our children and youth meet in a place. Thus, they come to know each other, share their views, experience and play together. By this way, we try our best to strengthen their social participation, increase their courage to continue school and to fight poverty together.
Goal
To engage and empower community people in an effort to develop leadership and create a society without discrimination through the active participation of children, adolescents, youth and women in development activities.
Bhela is a Non-profitable and Non-political Social Welfare and Development Organization founded by a group of people committed to create a better society on 6th October, 1998 in Dinajpur, Bangladesh. Bhela has been working with social and economical disadvantaged people especially by undertaking educational, cultural and development activities. Its educational activities are aimed to minimize…
Purpose
- To achieve overall development of the society by uniting the poor, very poor, small, marginal farmers and backward communities to change their living standards.
- Accelerating the pace of development by creating skilled manpower and creating employment by imparting technical and vocational training to the unemployed youth.
- Making people aware about the ongoing programs of the government and assisting in mother and child welfare, youth welfare, women welfare, poor welfare and full housing.
- Involvement in public and private activities for the welfare of different able people, third gender, elderly and especially abled population.
- Creating awareness and providing support before, during and after natural disasters.
- Establishing library, collection, publication and promotion of books with the aim of inculcating the habit of reading in order to develop the people as enlightened people. As well as increasing people’s skills in creating various online-based career opportunities.
- Effective role in achieving the rights of the underprivileged sections of the society through advocacy programs
- To take the initiatives to have access to the government and non-government services for the poor people through mobilizing and coordinating of them.
- To ensure the community participation for observing the different day and social activities.
Ongoing Activities
- Taking various training programs for socio-economic development.
- Undertake agriculture, fisheries, animal husbandry and tree plantation programmes.
- Adoption of education and health service programs.
- To create social awareness through mass drama and folk song.
- Building a social movement to prevent corruption and ensure good governance.
- Celebrating national and international days.
- Participating in anti-dowry activities and provide support to prevent child marriage.
- Active participation in district and upazila level NGO monthly coordination meetings.
- Increasing public awareness on disaster mitigation.
- Organizing Annual General Meetings.
Next Activities
- Enhancing the skills of youth by organizing them in ICT. Promote online based skill development.
- Encouraging people in agricultural work i.e. smart agriculture production, poultry farming and vegetable farming.
- To implement Income Generation Activities through training of youth especially women in accordance with the needs of the present time.
- To provide knowledge and motivation about maternal and child health family planning nutrition.
- To creating awareness of adolescent health issues especially Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR).
- To communicate and coordinate with various government and non-government organizations, and assist the poor and vulnerable people to access government services.
- To develop linkages and partnership with like-minded organizations through coordination with different government and private organizations.
- Implementation of social activities to ensure the rights of poor people.
- Working with people to ensure gender transformation and women’s rights where equal rights and equal opportunities will be worked for.
- Working against child rights and child abuse.
- To improve the quality of various sports.
- To organize the annual general meeting.