Prakritajan ó VAB Partner in Bangladesh
Prakritajan
( Prak)
Prakritajan,
as a national NGO started development activities in 1991 with permission from
the respective government departments. Program activities including (a) social
mobilization and leadership development among women trough savings, skill
development and micro credit populations (b) formal and non formal education
from drop outs, street children and for adults, scholarship and education
supports to schools (c) health awareness education and preventive heath services
for mother and child, Arsenic screening and mitigation, HIV/AIDS education, and
(d ) pollution and social forestry etc. The whole program has a single
focus: poverty alleviation.
Parkritajan
works through 23 centers spreading all over Bangladesh covering 76,000 people.
Women are the prime focus of almost all program activities of Prakritajan and
today, under savings and micro credit operation, Prakritajan has succeeded in
reaching 8,900 women in activating them in economic activities to make them
self-reliant. Education is still the main program agenda to ensure human
development in order to transform then into productive human being. The
Chairman: Professor A.B.M. Farooque. Office: 278 Elephant Road, 2nd
Floor, Kataban, Dhaka 1205. Prakritajan implemented VAB’s scholarship and
school improvement program till the end of 2004.
D.Net:
(Development through Access to Network Resource)
D-Net
is a leading non-governmental organization registered with the Government of
Bangladesh to work in the Internet and information management area in promoting
developmental activities in Bangladesh. It has undertaken several projects in
promoting computer education and training in their varied aspects by working
with various educational institutions and different target groups. Its Executive
Director is: Dr. Ananya Raihan. Office: Meraj Tower (3rd Floor), 25,
Adarsha Chhaya Neer, Ring Road, Shyamoli, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh. D-Net will
cooperate with VAB in implementing its Computer Literacy Program.
TDC ( Tripartite
Development Corporation)
TDC
is a private non- profit, non-political & non-religious Humanitarian
Voluntary organization.. TDC carries out development activities like as
Secondary Education Support Program, Village Level Awareness and Socialization
Program on Children & Women Rights, Pre-primary Education, Health Awareness
Program, Water & Sanitation Program, Micro Credit Program. The broad
objectives of TDC is to improve the Quality of life the underprivileged people
especially Children & Women by providing Education, Information, awareness
& skill Development with their active participation for self-reliance. Its
specific objectives are: to establish inalienable rights of the Children;
to Create opportunity for wider & extensive Education of the Children; to
provide basic Education of the underprivileged Children; to assess the improve
the Quality of Education for the Children; to create a conducive environment for
Children Education through
incentives like games, sports & cultural activities; to establish &
enforce the rights of the Street Children; and to establish clean Environment in
the Society. Executive Director: Ruhul Amin Siddique. Office: House 35/4; Road
11, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh. TDC implements VAB’s targeted
charity on Pre-school education.