Promoting Student’s Health at Baharchara, Chittagong

RAFCO has conducted several medical camps for girls, an eye camp for 2,000 patients, distribute education kits and hold Student Awareness meetings

With support from BACHAO, this project will be able to continue to:

    • Provide basic health and sanitation supplies among their poor students
    • Those supplies include Toilet rings for the students and their families, nail cutters
      and hand washing soap

Tauri Foundation, Paba Upazila, Rajshahi

Tauri Foundation strives to provide assistance, education and rehabilitation to underprivileged children with special needs, as well as impart overall life skills to mentally and physically challenged children and provide support groups for their families.

With support from BACHAO, this project will be able to continue to:

    • Organize disability screening camps for rural and impoverished children
    • Provide therapeutic services to underprivileged children who would otherwise go untreated
    • Train parents of the underprivileged disabled children to give necessary therapy at home
    • Provide education and vocational training to those able and disabled rural
      children living under poverty
    • Grow the current “Inclusive School for Underprivileged Children” by renting
      more school rooms and appointing more teachers

Gramay Cholo, Gram Goro, Mingram, Jessore

This is an on-going project of AMB, which used BACHAO funds to expand their charity work. Their mission is to improve socio-economic condition of the poor villagers by providing mass education, basic health care, and training for unskilled farmers in rural area of Mingram, which is home to approximately 10,000 people.

BACHAO funds have been used to:

    • Run 4 Nursery schools serving approximately 60 to 80 poor children
    • Construct a room for Class 1 of a Primary School
    • Supply clothes & financial help to 15 poor meritorious students of the local
      Girls High School.
    • Provide books to the Library and text books to some poor students
    • Provide limited healthcare to poor elderly villagers
    • Introduce improved methods of cultivation such as supplying better seeds and
      fertilizers and use of economical tractors, etc.

BACHAO funds have already assisted the CRP to:

    • Provide various vocational skill development training and support those who are poor
    • Provide 16 sewing machines for the rehabilitation of the poor vocational trainees
      (provide necessary tools/equipment so that they can earn income on their own)
    • Provide 16 wheelchairs (built at CRP) for the very poor

Shishu Polli Plus’s Health Service for Children, Sreepur Village, Dhaka

Sreepur Village is a purpose built “children’s village” 60 km from Dhaka City run by Shishu Polli Plus. SPP provides assistance to destitute mothers and children. Their hope is to create a society where underprivileged women and children are provided with tools for a better life. Since its inception, SPP has rehabilitated 2138 children and 539 mothers. At present, 500 children and 150 destitute mothers live in the village.

Clinic and healthcare is a part of holistic approach of SPP’s work which ensures preventive and curative medical care. SPP has a clinic on its own premises. Funding provided by BACHAO is used to:

    • Cover partial cost of the Health Care Clinic for children & destitute mothers
    • Provide support to receive better treatment at external hospitals & clinics
    • Provide health education

With funding from BACHAO, the Rotary Club:

    • Provides free treatment and checkups for children who otherwise would not be
      able to afford eye care (746 Children have been treated so far as a result
      of BACHAO Funding)
    • Completed 2 stories of the planned 6-story eye hospital building
    • Provides free treatment & operations to 5 elderly poor patients every month

With assistance from BACHAO, the program is:

    • Expanding to include primary school up to Class 5 (Originally there were 70
      underprivileged children enrolled in up to Class 3)
    • Increasing enrollment in the women’s literacy program. The literacy program
      will include 50 working women of the Basti area.
    • Provide financial assistance for the outgoing students of primary school for
      higher studies in nearby formal schools.

With support from BACHAO, this project will be able to continue to:

    • Expand free medical treatment to more distressed people of Boalmari & Nagarkanda
       Upa Zilla.
    • Provide funds required for expanding their operation in substantive income generation
       initiative for distressed people.

With BACHAO’s assistance, the school has been able to:

    • Expand to accommodate more students and to provide books/educational
      kits to each student
    • Provided primary health care for each of the underprivileged students
    • Focuses on providing functional literacy over three years, covering National Primary
      Education Curriculum to under-privileged children ages 4 to 10 years.

With support from BACHAO, this project will be able to continue to:

    • Provide funding for students who have scored GPA-5 in SSC exam for HSC
    • Provide funding for students who have scored GPA-5 in HSC exam for higher studies
    • Increase the number of students helped, currently 26 of 162

Plastic Surgery (Lip Coloboma / Lip Cleft Palate) project, Kushtia

The Rotary Club provides funding for many projects that help the underprivileged in Bangladesh, including Primary School, Medical Camps, Rehabilitation for the Paralyzed and an orphanage.

With support from BACHAO, this project will be able to continue to:

    • Expand the Eye hospital to include surgeries for cleft palate

    • Provide funding for surgeons, nurses, anesthesia, medicine and other basic
      medical supplies

Medical Camp, Prithimpassa Union of Moulvi Bazar District and Tuker Bazar Union of Sylhet District

Nishwa Shahayak Shangstha (NSS) was founded in 2007 and is a community development non-profitable, non-political, non-secretarian organization aiming at bringing about the overall development of the helpless, disadvantage and the ultra poor of both genders in different communities.

The goal of NSS is to complete a multi-phase project that aims to:

    • Provide free medicine and exams by registered doctors to approximately
      800-100 patients in Tuker Bazar Union of Sylhet District.
    • Provide medical assistance to approximately 500 inhabitants of the selected
      slums (10-12 nos) in collaboration with SSKS, a local NGO.