Globally, an estimated 121 million children do not attend school. Of
that number, 65 million are girls. Among all the development goals set out by
the world community, eliminating gender disparity in primary and secondary
education is the first due in 2005. It is an essential step toward achieving
education for all children. The indigenous community of Bangladesh are marginalized, disadvantaged and about 72% of the population live under the poverty line caused CHT conflicts displacing tens of thousands of poor marginalized farmers. So, more than 80% of the tribal/indigenous students drop out from the schools before completion of SSC & HSC level. So we would like to request in KSS's child education, see the details of fundsraising campaigns at www.globalgiving.org, http://ksscht.blogspot.com
Without
education, there is no development, and without books there is no education.
I've never heard of a country that has been able to develop without an educated
population, considering this issue, we request the donors to contribute to
our child education.
KSS is committed to creating an environment in which all children,
regardless of their gender, socioeconomic background or circumstances, have
access to free primary education by providing services to the most marginalized
populations of CHT, Bangladesh,
it to focus special attention on the children excluded from education.
Bangladesh is a low-lying country causing parasitic infection of the peoples and river
blindness is spread almost in each of the part of Bangladesh, the bites black fly that breeds
in rapidly flowing waters along fertile riverbanks in Bangladesh. The disease can
cause intense itching, eyesight damage, and often blindness. River
blindness has an enormous economic impact, preventing people from
working, harvesting crops, receiving an education, or taking care of
children.Moreover, due to unavailability of eye treatment in the country the number of river blindness is rapidly increasing in the country. KSS's eye health care service makes efforts to reduce river blindness by launching satellite eye health clinics partnering with local community-based organizations. So, we would like to draw the attention of the generous donors to kindly support in our valuable eye health care project implementation and to save tens of thousands of parasatic infected river blindness patients.
The causes of
blindness in children differ from those in adults, different control
measures are needed. In low-income countries, high proportions of
children are blind due to preventable causes; this requires
community-based interventions.children with treatable
diseases, especially cataract, their sight can be restored by removing the cataracts. children require long-term follow-up after surgery to manage
complications and prevent amblyopia. The understanding
and involvement of parents is critical almost all part of Bangladesh.So,the children with
irreversible visual loss must be assessed for low-vision services,some of the orphans and poor children are affected with cataracts need emergently treatment otherwise their sights will lose completely. So, please support us in our eye health project, you 75-100 dollar can be saved one child sight.
The vast majority of people with blindness or vision impairment live in Bangladesh without treatment facilities as there is no such available service. The cost-effective interventions, -
providing spectacles or cataract surgery, up to 80 per cent of
blindness is treatable or preventable. The eye health and avoidable blindness aims of KSS is to improve the quality of life
for people with low vision and blindness and to reduce the prevalence
of preventable blindness. Please support the proposed KSS eye health and avoidable blindness and restore the sights of extreme poor blind peoples in CHT, Bangladesh.
Today, I am pleased
to express my pleasure that we are able to achieve our goal of objectives set
as we committed to perform step by step to improve the life status of the
extreme poor community peoples through undertaking need-based development
program activities. Our human resources is needed to be increase as well as
financial resources, because, without skilled human resources and availability
financial resources, we shall not be
able to change the poverty condition of the extreme poor community peoples who
are facing critical food shortage and malnutrition. Despite several risks
facing, we were able to implement all the development projects undertook
successfully, obtained expected results and made sustain the projects impacts
as planned. The grassroot level NGOs like P Kapo Seba Sangha KSS are able reach to the hard to reach rural extreme poor population where
the national NGOs can't, this is because we understand the sensitive issues,
traditional and social and community-based barriers/risks which obstruct the
development of the rural peoples, further, though the UN agencies and national
NGOs working in the hard to reach areas,
the impacts are not derived as expected
due to lack lose monitoring and effective orientation services, but the
local grassroot level NGOs can monitor and inspect the field level development
works with the local based volunteers and successfully implementing the
development projects undertaken.
In a survey in
Naniarchar Upazila in 2007, we revealed that many interior villages'
peoples/families face critical hunger, diseases and other problems where the
development program and or development agencies do not reach there and the some
peoples only heard about the name of NGOs, but they do not receive any
development services there.
In the conclusion, I
would like to thank to the partners/supporters/donors for their continuous
financial supports for our projects and thanks to the community peoples who
contributed to achievement of our project implementation.
Kiranmoy Chakma
Pre4sident
Kapo Seba Sangha KSS
Non-formal primary Education (NFPE) programme:
Kapo Seba Sangha KSS
implement a non-formal primary educational (NFPE) project in 2011 in Naniarchar
and Kawkhali union which was a continuous BRAC supported educational project.
Under the NFPE project provided reading, writing and numeric skill to the
target children and primary educational facilities provided to the rural
dripped out children age 8-12. Who were prepared for schooling to class 1, 2
and 3 to the nearest primary school. The mentioned project implement by Kapo
Seba Sangha KSS with the financial support of BRAC the project period was 1
year and a total 80 children were made schooling and they continuously go to
the schools having the facilities provided through the NFPE educational
project.
Community managed water and sanitation programme
Kapo Seba Sangha KSS
implemented a community managed water and sanitation project partnership with
NGO forum out ghagra union covering 6 villages Junamachara, Chelachara,
Noupara, Herangipara Sakrachari and Bogapara under kowkhali upazila. Providing
safe drinking water supply by installing DSP hand tub wells and provided
technical training on minor repairing of hand tube-wells education to the
villages' project management committees. Kapo Seba Sangha KSS also educated the
target peoples on prevention of water born diseases system of water
purification access to safe drinking water. Sanitation education services was
also provided to the target people to promote personal hygiene, practice/use of
sanitary latrines leaving the use of open space evacuation use sandal before
entering into the latrines and wash hands after evacuation.
This co-managed water and sanitation project managed by
the community-based management committee with direct participation, financed funded
by the MJF to rum, the duration of the project was 1 years and a total of 340
people were benefited with this project by obtaining the education of accessing
safe drinking water and sanitation education learned the kills sanitary
latrines materials production hand tube wells installation and maintenance.
Rural Sanitation project:
Kapo Seba Sangha KSS
implemented a rural sanitation project in 2012 by partnering with MJF providing
sanitation education to the target people education on behavior change abandoning
open space evacuation in sanitary latrine production procedures of sanitary
latrines materials installation of commodes, gas pipe slabs etc. The rural
peoples use unhygienic latrines and they are with unawake personal hygiene
promotion, KSS launched this sanitation project through which the target
village people were able to learn the importance of sanitation and hygiene
promotion keeping the selves clean and able to learn the lesion of sanitation
use of hygienic latrines and prevention of worm and other transmissible
diseases that come form unhygienic latrines use and open space evacuation.
Income generating programe through micro-credit program:
Kapo Seba Sangha KSS conducted an income
generating project for 40 poor women through providing revolving loan for adopt
small scale income generating schemes- vegetable production, poultry and
traditional waist room weaving (production of traditional customs) for 36
extreme poor families, they target 36 family members were formed into 3 group consisting
12 members in each group, other forming them into group, relevant schemes and
financial management including appropriate utilization the provided loan funds.
2. Group members provided
60,000 loan facilities, Tk. 5,000/- per group members for traditional costumes
production, the other group provided the same amount of 60,000/- for capital
money to purchase vegetable sequence produce potato’s and other vegetable/cash
crops and the rest target group under took poultry rearing with amount of loan
taka 60,000 collectively the revolving loan funds repayment recess time
provided 3 months, after 3 months the group members began to refund the loan
taka with 4% service charges in monthly installment.
The mentioned above credit
program was successfully implemented by KSS through which the 36 poor family
members became self sufficient economically through increasing their income.
Agro-based poverty alleviation program Kapo Seba Sangha KSS Implemented an
agro-based poverty alleviation project for 3 poor families providing financial
support to purchase ginger seeds and ginger cultivation at Ghagra Bazar area.
Ghagra union the poor marginalized farmers were unable produce ginger due to
lade of small capital money progressive provided Taka 3,000 per family to cultivate
ginger and with the financial assistance provided by Kapo Seba Sangha KSS were
able to 1000-2000 kgs. of ginger and earned profit 35,000 to 40,000 with
inverting capital money, increased their income and were able under take other
income generating schemes with the money earned from the ginger production
project.
Hand loom programme:
A hand-loom weaving training project was
implemented by the Kapo Seba Sangha KSS at Rangapani village in Rangamati Sadar
Thana. A total of 20 disadvantaged women were provided hand loom weaving
technical training including traditional dress making, a total 3 months
practical handloom weaving skill training and 2 months dress-making training
after completion of training progressive managed to obtain in relevant jobs
facilities in 3 local textiles mills and the rest four trainees engaged in KSS
projected jobs. As the organization successfully implemented this project 20
very poor women were able secure jobs thereby they earn their livelihood their
children got educational facilities.
KSS has 3 Council- the General
Council (GC), the Advisory Council (AC) and the Executive Council (EC).
i) The General Council (GC): The General Council is
consisting of 30 members. The supreme management authority of the organization
is vested with thru General Council. All the members are taken the respective
community considering their background and attitude. The GC has supreme power
in overall respect of the organization; it forms EC by direct casting vote and
or selecting process and provides responsibilities of project implementation,
collecting, funds, appointing staff to the EC.
ii) The Executive Council (EC): The is elected by the
general council members in an election and or selection process in its Annual
General Meeting for a period of 3 years term. The Executive Council is consist
of 7 members and headed by a president. The executive Council is responsible
for the overall management aspect of the organization. The Executive Council
prepares annual report as regards the overall performance of the organization
and report to the General Council members. The Executive council meets at least
6 times in a year. This council can meet on emergency basis at any time in the
year as and when needed. The problems and issues as regards the ongoing program
activities are discussed in this meeting and necessary recommendations are made
to solve operational of the organization and project implementation.
Donate us in our poverty alleviation programs, community development and improve the life status of the poor community peoples and sve the planet clean by preserving habitats and reduction of green house gas emission
Kapo
Seba Sangha KSS is a community-based indigenous people’s non-political
development organization was established on 22nd February, 1996 by
some dedicated, selfless and highly educated tribal social workers of
Rangamati, Chittagong Hill Tracts, who wanted to bring positive change among
the people of CHT region irrespective of race, caste, creed, gender and
religion..
There are eleven indigenous communities in the
greater Chittagong Hill Tracts and possess distinctly different physical
features from the Bengali people. It covers an area of 5093 square miles,
mostly hilly and inaccessible. The very different geography, culture and social
practice of this region compared with the rest of the country has clearly side
lined it in terms of national development. Each group bears its specific racial
background, language, heritage and culture. They are scattered all over the
Chittagong Hill Tracts.
The greater Chittagong Hill Tracts
(CHT) is currently one of the poverty stricken areas of the country due to
various reasons. The political instability is one of the important reasons and
which not only significantly affected in peace and social harmony but also
caused gender discrimination in social arbitration process and hampered the
socio-economical development process. For that reason this region has had no
exposure to any development activities and the majority of the CHT population
continues to be very underprivileged and poor.
Since
inception Kapo Seba Sangha KSS has been committed to work with and for the
underprivileged people of the CHT to alleviate their poverty situation. During
the 7 years of KSS's existence many development initiatives have been undertaken
with good results.
