DRR project helping vulnerable people
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Our Correspondent
GAIBANDHA, Oct 11: Disaster Risk Reduction Project has been helping the vulnerable communities of Kamarjani Union under Sadar Upazila in the district from 2006 helping them to become self reliant.
Practical Action Bangladesh, a UK based international non government organisation, in partnership with a local organisation SKS Foundation has stood beside the vulnerable ones and is implementing the project in the union located at Brahmaputra river basin of the upazila with the financial support of DFID, UK, office sources said.
A total of 2000 vulnerable people including women of the union were brought under this project as beneficiaries so far and they were provided with different types of supports from the organisation during the period.
Under this project, the targeted ones, particularly the widows and the abandoned women, were imparted need base training on alternative income generating activities like tailoring, sewing, block boutique, handicraft, rickshaw-van repairing, packaging, poultry farming, cow and goat rearing, homestead gardening, seed preservation and other trades so that they could continue their livelihood without hardship the year round even at the time disaster including flood and drought, said M. Qurban Ali, project manager.
Apart from this, many welfare activities were also done for the targeted poor. The activities included the establishment of two cluster villages for 45 landless, homeless and ultra poor people, construction of 20 houses, installation of 45 tube wells and 120 sanitary latrines and handing over 20 cows and 140 goats to them, sources said.
In addition, the people of the vulnerable areas were made aware on disaster preparedness to face the natural calamities with minimum losses, he also said.
Salma Akter, wife of Rezaul Karim, at Karaibari Village of the union said she took training on block boutique conducted by the organisation and was earning money everyday from that intervention which helped her and other family members pass days without economic troubles.
On seeing the job style and standard livelihood of Salma, the other women of the neighbouring areas were coming to her and showing their keen interest in joining such work to earn money, she also said.
M. Solaiman Islam, chairman of the union, said the overall activities of the project are praiseworthy as the organisation helped the vulnerable people mitigate their sufferings caused by disasters including river erosion and flood to a great extent.
Talking to the FE senior project manager Zainal Abedin said Similar activities under the project were also going on at Sariakandi Upazila under Bogra district and Kazipur Upazila under Sirajganj district from 2006.
GAIBANDHA, Oct 11: Disaster Risk Reduction Project has been helping the vulnerable communities of Kamarjani Union under Sadar Upazila in the district from 2006 helping them to become self reliant.
Practical Action Bangladesh, a UK based international non government organisation, in partnership with a local organisation SKS Foundation has stood beside the vulnerable ones and is implementing the project in the union located at Brahmaputra river basin of the upazila with the financial support of DFID, UK, office sources said.
A total of 2000 vulnerable people including women of the union were brought under this project as beneficiaries so far and they were provided with different types of supports from the organisation during the period.
Under this project, the targeted ones, particularly the widows and the abandoned women, were imparted need base training on alternative income generating activities like tailoring, sewing, block boutique, handicraft, rickshaw-van repairing, packaging, poultry farming, cow and goat rearing, homestead gardening, seed preservation and other trades so that they could continue their livelihood without hardship the year round even at the time disaster including flood and drought, said M. Qurban Ali, project manager.
Apart from this, many welfare activities were also done for the targeted poor. The activities included the establishment of two cluster villages for 45 landless, homeless and ultra poor people, construction of 20 houses, installation of 45 tube wells and 120 sanitary latrines and handing over 20 cows and 140 goats to them, sources said.
In addition, the people of the vulnerable areas were made aware on disaster preparedness to face the natural calamities with minimum losses, he also said.
Salma Akter, wife of Rezaul Karim, at Karaibari Village of the union said she took training on block boutique conducted by the organisation and was earning money everyday from that intervention which helped her and other family members pass days without economic troubles.
On seeing the job style and standard livelihood of Salma, the other women of the neighbouring areas were coming to her and showing their keen interest in joining such work to earn money, she also said.
M. Solaiman Islam, chairman of the union, said the overall activities of the project are praiseworthy as the organisation helped the vulnerable people mitigate their sufferings caused by disasters including river erosion and flood to a great extent.
Talking to the FE senior project manager Zainal Abedin said Similar activities under the project were also going on at Sariakandi Upazila under Bogra district and Kazipur Upazila under Sirajganj district from 2006.