Support in the KSS's river blindness initiatives

 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 child blindness

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.

Support in KSS,s eye health causes

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.

The Annual Report of FY 2012

                                

                                

                                      Kapo Seba Sangha KSS

                                     Debashisnagar, Rangamati-4500,

                                     Rangamati Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

                                     Phone:  880-:035163658,

                                   E-mail: ksscht@gmail.com/kssrangamati@yahoo.com   

  Content   

1. Message from President   

2. Non-formal primary educational program

3. Community managed water and sanitation program

4. Micro credit program

Message from President

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.