Accessing a Better Life

Friendship’s Rural Social Education has been incorporated in a larger project titled Accessing a Better Life which will be carried out in collaboration with the Manusher Jonno Foundation.  The aim of the project is to provide the char dwellers with rights-based awareness and improving their capacities.  The target beneficiaries will be provided with training on poverty alleviation and civil education in order to meet this aim.

Community-based groups modelled after Friendship’s Char Development Committees (FCDCs), will form long-term strategies at the grassroots level.  The CDC will be developed through basic training and regular community meetings.  As a result they will be aware of their human and civil rights, the concept of good governance, and ways to organize to demand for their rights.  

The project will establish human rights-based communication and strengthen coordination with the government and other NGOs by coordinating with relevant government departments.  Ultimately, this will enable the socially disadvantaged and hard-to-reach rural people to access healthcare, social education and information about their rights which can enhance their ability for poverty eradication in the chars.

The project implementation time will be two years. In the first year of the project nearly 10,000 people of 10 chars will benefit and by the next year another 10,000 people of 10 new chars will be brought under the coverage of the programme. At the end of the project about 20,000 of people will benefit directly and indirectly in this region.

This project is holistic in nature as it integrates aspects of different ones in order to achieve a common larger goal of improvement of the life of the people on the chars.