The Annual Report of FY 2015-2016
Kapo Seba Sangha (KSS)
Debashisnagar,
Rangamati Sadar, Rangamati Hill Tracts
Content
1. Non-formal education program:
2. HIV/AIDS education program:
3. Water & Sanitation Program hygiene
Promotion
4. Horticulture Training Project
5. Health education project
Message from the President:
Since inception, the Kapo Seba Sangha
organization undertaken community-based educational programs, established 15
community-based primary schools collaborating with the community peoples of the
and finally BRAC came forward to support our valuable causes supporting cash
and in-kinds in our educational programs since 2006. "Education is the
spine of a nation" proverb is a true valuable word, no one nation can be
developed without education. As our country is the poorest amongst the
developing countries of the world, it is because; the literacy rate is so low
in south-east Asian countries. So, to reduce poverty, first we need education,
the education can be rendered the population into the valuable human resources, skilled educated
men and women can lead the country to the top developed nation. For above reason, Kapo Seba Sangha
trying to reduce illiteracy from the society by educating the marginalized
extreme poor children, dropped out children and disadvantaged children by
providing non-formal and formal primary
educational facilities, re-schooling and supporting their families in our
development programs to increase their
income so that their children can continue
their education and rebuild their lives.
The marginalized community peoples do not
access to required information on the scopes of obtaining free health,
sanitation, education and other development ,
further, the extreme poor people do not have the spare of time to go to
the Upazila and district head quarter to have such health related information
for their ill family members for better treatment and when their patients
become serious at that time they have to take them to the district hospitals and
need much time and money to reach to the district hospitals/clinics, to
manage such amount of money can be
collected by selling their only beasts. On the other hand, if the only incoming
family members are engaged with the patient's treatment, the other family
members have face hunger without sufficient food.
The
mentioned above situations/problems are always evolved the rural poor families
who need complete free health care service at their door steps, so I would like
to encourage the health service-providing institutions to go and provide health
facilities to the extreme poor peoples of
backward communicated areas of CHT.
In conclusion, I thank to BRAC, DANIDA and NGO
Forum for their financial and in-kind supports to our development projects and I also thank to our patrons,
individual donors and the members of Kapo Seba Sangha KSS who contributed to
the development project under taken by this organization and hope to receive
the same contribution from you in the future.
1.
Non-formal primary education program
Kapo
Seba Sangha continuously implementing the non-formal education providing
primary educational facilities to the extreme poor
children class 1 to 4 and 5, age 8-12 years in the
schools established by support of BRAC and KSS.This educational project /
activities are conducted in Bogachadar and Longadu union with the hired teachers, the objective of this
education project is to provide primary education and to make fit to
re-schooling the dropped out children age. The school management committee
(SMG) monitors the entire school activities including raising awareness on the
local families to send their children to the schools instead of engaging them
in household works. Executive Council (EC) of Kapo Seba Sangha also together with
Project Implementation Committee (PIC) monitors and evaluates the ongoing
school activities.
Kapo Seba Sangha implemented a non-formal
primary education project which was a
continuous project started since 2007, the main objective of this
project is to reduce illiteracy rate and to
enhance the quality of education and creating a learning environment for
the out-of-school children; especially disadvantaged girls, dropped out and working
children of Chittagong Hill Tracts.
By the
side NFPE educational program, the target children learn how to sing national
anthem, physical exercise, indoor and out door games, song and dance, and
puzzle etc. Rate of students’ attendance is satisfactory; teachers are regular
and conduct classes maintaining child education friendly environment. Parents
are happy to send their children at school regularly and observing progress of
their children’s’ education. But they comment, curriculum of school should be
as per CHT context (language, culture). Under this project a total of 150
children received educational facilities and their parents/guardians were
motivated.
Project Objectives:
·
to enhance capacity of the community for effective management of
non-formal primary education,
·
to provide primary education to 150 targeted indigenous children, and
·
to develop a mutually beneficial collaborative network of formal and
non-formal primary education providers.
Project Duration: Began in 2007 and continued
Project Beneficiaries: 150 students (boys and girls) of 6-11 years old
including drop- out children.
Project Location: The project with five schools covers
five villages (Pagla Chara, Garao Bitar
para, Obitchalita para, Mongprue para and Tulachari para )
under Alekhyong Union of Rowangchari Upazila in Bandarban Hill District.
Funding Source(s): BRAC
Project Features: Basic education-reading, writing and arithmetic and other extra
curricular activities- education how to sing national anthem, physical
exercise, indoor and out door games, song and dance, and puzzle etc.
Achievements:
·
Enrollment of children in primary school increased
·
Child labour decreased (previously the children
accompanied their mother in jhum cultivation)
·
Literacy is at incremental rate
·
Parents being aware about the importance of
education send their children to school
·
Parents get the opportunity to discuss their
community problems and solidarity among the community people developed
·
Children are in good hygienic condition
·
Community ownership built in school management
·
Networking developed with concerned government and
non-government education department.
·
Upazila education as well as district education
officer is more proactive n regarding improvement of education system
especially primary education.
Some issues/challenges faced, measures taken:
·
Difficulties faced to set up schools by the
community at the beginning of the project
·
Community people were reluctant to sit for the
meeting
The above
problems were settled through continuous motivation with the community leaders
–Karbari , Headmen and other people.
2.HIV/AIDS Program:
Kapo
Seba Sangha KSS implemented a HIV/AIDS education project - by raining public
awareness on HIV/AIDS virus transmittance from one person to another through
blood and sexual cohabitation, education were provided to the community
peoples to prevent spreading of
transmissible virus of HIV/AIDS. Kapo Seba Sangha KSS conducted the program
collaborating with Maitre-Bangladesh holding community-based meetings/workshops
at village level targeting the peoples of the project areas- especially
for the youth and adolescent, the
community-based youth groups was formed with the educated youth and adolescent
to conduct and spread the information of the HIV/AIDS preventive knowledge
learned from the program and to distribute leaflets to adjacent villages.
3.
Water, Sanitation and hygiene Promotion Program:
Kapo
Seba Sangha KSS continued the community-based hygiene promotion, water and
sanitation education programs along with other development programs- raised
awareness on access to safe water,
purification process of streams and pond
( purifying by boiling and in other systems) to make free the dinking water from diseases carrying
viruses and protect themselves from water born diseases. The sanitation
education provided to the community people of project sites to use hygienic
latrines, practice sandal use getting into the
latrines and washing hands with soaps
after evacuation , practice behavior change by using sanitary latrine, not to
practice open space evacuation, keeping clean around the houses
and schools. The said program conducted by organizing workshops and
raising awareness on these issues
4. Horticulture Training:
Kapo
Seba Sangha KSS conducted horticulture training to 20 poor farmers providing
sapling production, planting, caring and watering the sapling/plants including
distribution plants. The mentioned above training provided to 25 poor farmers
in 2 batches .One batch 13 and another batch 12 trainees, 15 days in a batch.
The 21 trainees received practical skills in theoretical and practical methods;
the purpose of this training is to make the poor farmers into the good skilled
gardeners, increase their agro-based income by applying the modern scientific
agricultural technology hi-bread fruit production, grafting and sapling
production systems.
5. Health education
program:
Kapo
Seba Sangha KSS conducted a school-based health education project in
Atharakchara union providing relevant health education to the students and
their family members including distribution of dewarming tablets. The program
conducted by organizing workshops at the Kapo Seba Sangha KSS schools and
raised awareness on primary health, nutrition and personal hygiene promotion
and to protect themselves from malaria and a total of 13 workshops were
organized in 3 villages and provided health education to more than 20700target
population with funds raised from the organization's patron and members..
Project
Title: Hygienic and WATSAN Program
Kapo
Seba Sangha KSS
conducted a hygienic and watsan project The
main aim of the program is to improve hygienic awareness and proactive roles
among the community people especially the poorest people. The program is being
implemented in two unions (Alekhyong and
Taracha) of Rawangchari by two union facilitators. Kapo Seba Sangha KSS believes that at first
the community people must be motivated to realize the importance of Hygiene,
sanitation and safe water. Therefore, organization undertook awareness program.
In regular parents’ group meetings and in village development groups the
community conduct group discussion, informal training, which includes other
development issues. Now majority people are habituated and practicing personal
hygiene and drink safe water. But in most of our other working areas there is severe
hardship of water supply.
For more successful
implementation of Hygiene, sanitation and safe water program Kapo Seba Sangha KSS arranged TOT on hygiene
and WATSAN for two staff, conducted by DANIDA
Project Objectives:
·
Healthy behavioral changes and increase of using safe sanitary latrines
·
Drink safe water
Project Duration: 15 months ending in December, 2010
Project Beneficiaries: 1000 poor families covering 20 villages
Project
Location:Two unions (Alekhyong and Taracha) of Rawangchari
Upazila.
Funding Source(s): GOB-DANIDA through
partnership with Humanitarian Foundation
Project
Features:
Awareness on the importance of Hygiene, sanitation and safe water held in
regular parents’ group meetings, informal training which includes other development
issues. Installation of ring well, tube well, Gravity Flow System and Deep Tube
wells. The project has also repaired the disordered tube wells/ring wells. Pit
latrines set up are yet to take place.
Achievements:
·
All the target families avail safe water
·
Almost 70% target families are aware on environmental health
and hygiene behavior.
·
Water borne diseases decreased. Thus expenses in this
respect reduced.
Some issues/challenges faced, measures taken:
·
The community people were reluctant at the
beginning to contribute voluntarily at the rate of five taka per month to meet
the repairing cost of water sources. Through continuous dialogue it was made
successful.
. Development Initiative to promote Transforming Youth and Adolescents
(DIPTYA) project:
KSS
has been implementing a skill development project- providing job-creating
skills development (mushroom and swing skill including social mobilization,
motivation and encouraging to undertake income-generating schemes collectively)
training to 200 disadvantaged youth and adolescent in Bandarban Sadar Upazila
since June, 2011 which will continue 2012-2013
partnership with Manusher Jonno Foundation. The total target people of
this project are the 200 disadvantaged youth and adolescent and we already
provided services to 100 target group members in 2011.
Objective: To build skills
development of 100 youth and adolescent
To increase
income of the disadvantaged youth and adolescent through transforming them into
human resources
Outputs:
·
100 youth and adolescent target
group members received mushroom production and
swing training skill.
The 100 target group
member became self-employed and was able to earn livelihood income through
application of the skills/lesions-learned from the project.
·
Project Duration: June 2010 –March 11,2011(9
months)
Funding
Sources:
Manusher Jonno Foundation
Project
Features:
Providing mushroom and swing training including awareness raising, motivation,
social and etc.
Achievements:
·
A total of 100 youth and adolescent received income-generating skill
development training (mushroom production and swing trainings)
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